The most annoying/ridiculous things about raising a baby/toddler in 2024?

[Anonymous]

Not to go off topic but medical people are overly casual with men as well now. My grandfather was in the nursing home and the aides all decided to call him "JoJo" because his name was Joseph. He just shut his eyes as he was too polite to object.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the weirdest thing was from the moment of becoming pregnant, people in the medical field feeling entitled to call me “mom” or “mama”. I immediately shut it down in my OB practice when I switched (my original OB was older and very professional and would never have allowed it in her practice).

The baby isn’t here. You’re not treating the baby. I’m your patient and I have a first name, or you may call me Ms. Surname, but I am not “Mama” to you, and if I was, I would have raised you better.

It’s because you probably have a hard to pronounce name, or you’re in area with a lot of other people who have unusual or hard to pronounce names. I’m not in the medical field but am bright enough to know that, at minimum, over half of their patients in the year 2024 with unprecedented immigration are not named “George”.

Nope, I have an easy phonetic name.

And a medical professional who can pronounce cholestasis and episiotomy can be expected to ask a patient with a non-phonetic name how to correctly pronounce it. Do you think when men with “hard to pronounce” names show up in the doctors office the nurse calls them “dad”?

Tell me you’re not in the medical profession without telling me. You would be sued in 2 seconds flat.

Weird, my concierge PCP asked in our first appointment what I would like to be called, and whether I preferred to call her Dr. _______ or by her first name. She’s still in business so I guess she has great liability insurance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not to go off topic but medical people are overly casual with men as well now. My grandfather was in the nursing home and the aides all decided to call him "JoJo" because his name was Joseph. He just shut his eyes as he was too polite to object.

This is so disrespectful I’m sorry. I just think women have it worse because it’s immediate based on pregnancy.

(Also could your parents have said something on his behalf?? My parents would have been livid if someone treated my grandmother this way, the nurses in her facility called her Mrs. Surname until she passed, and then attended her funeral so it wasn’t like they disliked her)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the weirdest thing was from the moment of becoming pregnant, people in the medical field feeling entitled to call me “mom” or “mama”. I immediately shut it down in my OB practice when I switched (my original OB was older and very professional and would never have allowed it in her practice).

The baby isn’t here. You’re not treating the baby. I’m your patient and I have a first name, or you may call me Ms. Surname, but I am not “Mama” to you, and if I was, I would have raised you better.

It’s because you probably have a hard to pronounce name, or you’re in area with a lot of other people who have unusual or hard to pronounce names. I’m not in the medical field but am bright enough to know that, at minimum, over half of their patients in the year 2024 with unprecedented immigration are not named “George”.

Nope, I have an easy phonetic name.

And a medical professional who can pronounce cholestasis and episiotomy can be expected to ask a patient with a non-phonetic name how to correctly pronounce it. Do you think when men with “hard to pronounce” names show up in the doctors office the nurse calls them “dad”?

Tell me you’re not in the medical profession without telling me. You would be sued in 2 seconds flat.

Weird, my concierge PCP asked in our first appointment what I would like to be called, and whether I preferred to call her Dr. _______ or by her first name. She’s still in business so I guess she has great liability insurance.

Cuz you’ve got some red effing flags already written in your chart, lady. Your future providers are forewarned.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the weirdest thing was from the moment of becoming pregnant, people in the medical field feeling entitled to call me “mom” or “mama”. I immediately shut it down in my OB practice when I switched (my original OB was older and very professional and would never have allowed it in her practice).

The baby isn’t here. You’re not treating the baby. I’m your patient and I have a first name, or you may call me Ms. Surname, but I am not “Mama” to you, and if I was, I would have raised you better.

It’s because you probably have a hard to pronounce name, or you’re in area with a lot of other people who have unusual or hard to pronounce names. I’m not in the medical field but am bright enough to know that, at minimum, over half of their patients in the year 2024 with unprecedented immigration are not named “George”.

Nope, I have an easy phonetic name.

And a medical professional who can pronounce cholestasis and episiotomy can be expected to ask a patient with a non-phonetic name how to correctly pronounce it. Do you think when men with “hard to pronounce” names show up in the doctors office the nurse calls them “dad”?

Tell me you’re not in the medical profession without telling me. You would be sued in 2 seconds flat.

Weird, my concierge PCP asked in our first appointment what I would like to be called, and whether I preferred to call her Dr. _______ or by her first name. She’s still in business so I guess she has great liability insurance.

Cuz you’ve got some red effing flags already written in your chart, lady. Your future providers are forewarned.

If you think not wanting to be called “mom” by a medical professional is a red flag I truly feel for your patients.