Maternity hospital staff giving birth where they work

josip

Do they give birth in the hospital where they work?
Presumably most do, especially outside Dublin where there wouldn't be much choice of location?
Is it a bit weird/uncomfortable for work colleagues to have full visibility of places work colleagues normally wouldn't see?
Is there extra pressure on the mid-wife/obstetrician side to get everything right for their pregnant colleague?

BMJD

well this is odd

Gatling

josip wrote: »

Is it a bit weird/uncomfortable for work colleagues to have full visibility of places work colleagues normally wouldn't see

First rule of pregnancy according to the wife is dignity goes out door when it comes to doctors and hospitals.

Suppose when you spend your day carrying out internals and delivering babies don't see why one would be bothered seeing a colleagues bits and pieces

Hitchens

men get nervous with this type of thread

Anyone in medicine doesn't think of it as any more undignified as having a broken finger. It's all just bits of bodies, it's what the woman is feeling, not the staff looking after her.

RobertKK

Hitchens wrote: »

men get nervous with this type of thread

For male farmers who deliver calves, lambs, foals etc, it is just the same natural process, except more precious.

PARlance

josip wrote: »

Do they give birth in the hospital where they work?
Presumably most do, especially outside Dublin where there wouldn't be much choice of location?
Is it a bit weird/uncomfortable for work colleagues to have full visibility of places work colleagues normally wouldn't see?
Is there extra pressure on the mid-wife/obstetrician side to get everything right for their pregnant colleague?

All have had their children in the same hospital where they work (from a sample size of 4 that I know in Dublin).

I would imagine that once you've seen a few, then you've seen them all. They tend to be under pressure to get every birth right.

AH summation: Women tend not to have these prepubescent male thoughts.

PLL

They are unbelievably used to all types of female genitalia all day long. The really don't care.

The first you have to open your legs to a doctor it feels unnatural. After a couple of times you're aware they don't actually give two hoots what it looks like.

Hitchens

RobertKK wrote: »

For male farmers who deliver calves, lambs, foals etc, it is just the same natural process, except more precious.

a vet friend of mine reckons most farmers are pure useless at deliveries

recylingbin

RobertKK wrote: »

For male farmers who deliver calves, lambs, foals etc, it is just the same natural process, except more precious.

Nonsense. A good calf can be worth a good few quid.