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If you can share what is the strangest (funniest, most unique) request a pt or family memeber has ever aks?

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Specializes in LDRP.

I had a woman ask me to cover her ears and squeeze her head tight while she was getting her epidural.

One lady didn't want a mirror to watch the baby deliver, but wanted a mirror to see what her lady parts/perineum looked like after being repaired post laceration.

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i had a patient's significant other (half-jokingly) ask me to teach him how to "check" his wife. ewww

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Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.
i had a patient's significant other (half-jokingly) ask me to teach him how to "check" his wife. ewww
Why is that ewww? I'd imagine he'd had more than his fingers in there....

The weirdest (saddest) request I've gotten is to baptize the baby for them. WHILE IN UTERO. No, sorry--I'll be more than happy to wait around for you to miscarry with my little plastic bottle of holy water, but we can't do it while she's still in there. (Interesting, they used to baptize in utero-led to all types of problems, as you could imagine)

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Mine wanted me to leave the garbage pail next to the bed so she could pee in it since she didn't know if she could make it to the bathroom.

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In Catholicism baptism in utero is considered in urgent situations like pending miscarriage or delivery of a compromised fetus. It may have been an enormous comfort to your pt. Why did you feel conflicted?

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.
In Catholicism baptism in utero is considered in urgent situations like pending miscarriage or delivery of a compromised fetus. It may have been an enormous comfort to your pt. Why did you feel conflicted?

The problem is infection as well as difficulty of access. You could use sterile water, but how do you get it there? And how do you get it there while dealing w/all the other needs of the moment--getting the doc stuff s/he needs, getting meds for mom, whatever. If mom is bleeding a lot, you may need to start a second IV, start a blood transfusion....

The baby will get his or her spiritual needs met, but probably post natally. Not really a conflict.

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled thread.....

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Baptism in utero involves making the sign of the cross ON Mom's belly...

Not an invasive measure.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
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Baptism in utero involves making the sign of the cross ON Mom's belly...

Not an invasive measure.

Some people aren't aware of the process to baptize. Not everyone is catholic or privileged to clerical process.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Had a woman ask to keep the placenta so that they could eat it. At least, that's what they told us...

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Had a woman deliver her 4th baby. Wanted to do it underwater. Sorry, not at our facility. She then requested that she and the new infant be allowed into a tub of her home-made "potion" and warm water as soon after birth as possible. That was okayed by her Doc.

The "potion" was herbal and smelled to high heaven. It was a choker and eye burner to be in there with them. It turned the water a greenish chocolate brown.

Anyway, she said she prepared the "potion" by adding something to it every week after she found-out she was pregnant. Things like seeds, stems, flower heads, leaves, spices, and what-not. She and her husband then said words over the infant as they bathed themselves in this.

It turns out she and her family had served as Missionaries in a foreign land. Perhaps they picked-up this ritual in one of the areas they served.

Anyway, they all went home happy and healthy.

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Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.

To clarify, this woman wanted me to basically give her a amnioinfusion of sorts with holy water. We have no sterile holy water (clean and filtered, yes-not sterile). She was a PPROM, with new onset painful Ctx. and the baby was having decels. I'm not sticking ANYTHING inside a PPROM's lady parts into her uterus and injecting a non-sterile solution.

It had nothing to do with making the sign of the cross over anyones belly button. I'm not religious, but wouldn't have minded doing this.

cardiac-believe it or not, placenta eating is beneficial for the mother. That said, I wouldn't do it. But I would plant a fruit bearing tree on top of one (and plan on it).

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