Along the lines of the "But I have little kids . . . . " thread:
One of my co-workers announced her pregnancy this week, stating that she was no longer willing to work weekends or holidays because she's going to be a parent. She also has to have Christmas off because this is going to be her last child-free Christmas. Oh and by the way, she can't take care of anyone with VRE, MRSA, or any other type of isolation. "Yukky wounds" make her nauseous, so she can't take those patients -- in fact, wouldn't it be best to just have her do charge all the time?
We're a large unit and have 1 - 6 nurses pregnant at any given time. Plus there are those who can't travel to interventional radiology, take infected patients, etc. because they're TRYING to get pregnant.
The last nurse to have her baby had to sit in the chair her entire shift "because I'm pregnant," and had orientees to do everything for her. Not the role of I preceptor, I'm thinking!
What's the strangest/most irritating thing you've had a coworker demand because she's pregnant?
I don't recall really ANY "pregnant bashing" on this thread. Rather, we are saying that it is unfair when the demands of pregnant women get out of hand, with no evidence to back it up. If a pregnant nurse came to me and needed help lifting, or exchanged a yucky wound dressing with something I needed to do, I would have NO problem. I love helping out other nurses, as long as there is a sense of fairness and teamwork about it. What I do get annoyed with is the stories of women who become consumed by their pregnancy, and have nothing else to talk about. Luckily, although I have worked with a lot of pregnant women, they have all been great! We really looked out for each other, for the most part.
THIRD SHIFT GUY: RE: your posts #30, # 32, # 38 et al,
This week marks six months of your following me around the
BB negatively critiquing my every post.
If anyone is interested....read my posts.
scroll down....there it is............................
It was probably six months ago when you admitted you make posts to deliberately stir up trouble, not even believing yourself what you post, but just wanting to stir things up. That makes you a troll. But I'd better keep personal attacks out of it or the mods will get me. But make no mistake, what you say has no validity with me, and I will continue to point that out.
There have been two posts this week from you that I have challenged. But it was because I sincerely disagree, not because I have a thing for you.
I challenge other people I disagree with. 3,000 plus posts attest to that.
I'm not even going to address the "sisterhood" thing. You can have your sisterhood.
My coming out was more in the current events kind of thing, not in the nursing realm. Certainly not to put me in any kind of sisterhood/brotherhood with anyone. Not sure what you're getting at there.
End of discussion. We can talk in private if you care to.
Thank You New CCU RN. I am newly pregnant and this thread has me angry and scared. I hope that when I am 8 months along, my co-workers do not have the attitude of some people on this board.
I just do not see what is wrong with team work. So, I might not be able to help boost a 400 lb patient in bed. Because of this, I should stay home?
Don't worry, on ANY job, in ANY female community, or even on a crowded bus there will always be female-people who will not let you their sit and mumble that "when I was pregnant, I stood up while taking a bus, so now LET HER stand!" ..... It is also international. There is no escape. It does not mean you should close yourself inside the 4 walls and stop doing what you love to do.
I used to work with a nurse who was 7 months pregnant AND had an arm in a sling with a dislocated shoulder who insisted on doing everything herself. The patients joked that she looked like she needed to be in the hospital worse than they did! But now I can easily remember how green I was during early pregnancy, threw up 3 times a day every day all nine months. Kinda hard to function like that especially when the intra-abdominal pressure from pregnancy and vomiting causes more than what a "depends" can handle. Used to drink my antacid of choice straight from the bottle that I kept at the nurses's station. Have a little heart. I didn't make any "demands" but I also worked in a hospital where the staff believed in all the old wives' tales. they would NOT allow me to look at a trauma or to work with the dead/dying for fear it would "mark my baby". The attendings wouldn't let me do chest compressions. They would stand there and order me to stop doing them. And one nurse informed me that I shouldn't be picking fruit from a tree because that tree would never bear fruit again if I did. SO, it was interesting to say the least.
I couldn't shorten any of this cause it's all so cute! My family is from the caribbean and this sounds like some of the stuff I've heard my grandmother and mother say. The tree and fruit thing was a real doozie!
who will not let you their sit and mumble that "when I was pregnant, I stood up while taking a bus, so now LET HER stand!" ..... It is also international. There is no escape. It does not mean you should close yourself inside the 4 walls and stop doing what you love to do. 
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WHAT on EARTH does "coming out of the closet" mean here to the benefit of this thread?
wow that was a LOW blow, the lowest yet among many, passing-thru. little by little what i see about you, I don't like one bit. Pretty scary actually.