Disabled parking for pregnancy?
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Anonymous
Perhaps, but if your doctor says you get a handicapped placard while you’re on bedrest, and you get a handicapped placard while you’re on bedrest… …you’ve neither lied nor cheated. You make have kue’d or chested, but thats between you and your Chardonnay. |
Anonymous
Then stay in bed and rest and stop going to shopping malls for hours on end. |
Anonymous
It’s weird you think shopping malls contain MFM practices? Or that people spend much time at shopping malls these days? |
Anonymous
If the argument is that you need special parking to go to the MFM then why doesn't the Dr have dedicated spots for their patients? Aren't they all there for the same reason? Or is there a loading and unloading zone so patients can be dropped at the door while their driver parks? A disability permit seems unnecessary to be able to access this one location. |
Anonymous
This is a bizarre hill to die on. An MFM might be located in a hospital or a medical park. They can mark courtesy spots, maybe, but it isn't enforceable in the way a marked handicap space is. A patient may have to see their regular OB as well, who would be located in a different office. Or they might have to make an unexpected stop to a pharmacy. High risk pregnancies are given a placard on a case by case basis. It's not like they hand them out automatically at 28 weeks in case a woman feels too tired to cross the parking lot for Nordstrom. |
Anonymous
So you’ve never been pregnant? People go to MFM for tons of reasons that aren’t bed-rest related. Some people see an MFM once, some people see an MFM twice-weekly, and some people have to go even more often. Pregnancy doesn’t come with a dedicated driver to take you to an appointment 2-5x week. Not everyone lives close enough to their MFM for Uber or Lyft 2-5x week to be cost effective, and when your partner is hanging onto all their sick leave for a forthcoming baby who may need extra care, it doesn’t make sense for them to take 4-6 hours of sick leave per week. MFM is also in addition to, not instead of, your OB practice. It is in addition to, not instead of, other medical care you may need like lab work and vaccinations. You need to get over this idea that women are getting away with something. |
Anonymous
I've had 3 kids. Give me a break. But someone mentioned the mall and the response was "No I just need to go to the Dr!" Which is clearly not true or else why the pushback? |
Anonymous
Again, pregnancy is not a disability. I've walked my pregnant self into the MFM several times. If you have a specific issue then you talk to your Dr about it and go from there. |
Anonymous
The person who mentioned the mall was the misogynist troll living under this bridge who said women with handicap placards were “wandering the mall for hours on end”. My response, as someone who both had a handicap placard and hasn’t set foot in a mall since 2020 or so, is that that poster doesn’t know what they’re talking about. And frankly, if you had three kids and never needed bedrest or high risk monitoring, rather than begrudge other women the ability to park near their doctors offices, maybe thank your lucky stars instead. |
Anonymous
No one gets a placard automatically. You get it if your doctor says you get it. I don’t understand why you’re struggling so hard with this. |
Anonymous
No more enabling boomers they need to go |
Anonymous
So talk to your dr about your issues? Is your Dr denying you a handicapped permit? Who are you so angry with? This is how the system works. It doesn't need an overhaul where every woman over 20 weeks gets her placard. |
Anonymous
I posted early in the thread that OP should doc to her OB about it. My doctor was great and mentioned it to me when I was having mobility issues in my pregnancy, and gave me documentation so that if I wanted to get a temporary disabled pass I could. I really appreciated that she raised the issue with me because it also wouldn't have occurred to me, having never had mobility issues before. She also volunteered documentation for my work to get a dispensation to WFH full time (at the time I was expected in the office 4 days a week though there was not a strong reason for this). Having a doctor say "you are currently disabled, you deserve accommodations" even though my disability was temporary, was really helpful to me because I'd never been in that situation before. I wound up just WFH and didn't get the parking pass because my DH was able to drive me to to appointments for the last couple months. But the pushback on this thread is so weird. People get temporary disability parking passes for all kinds of things -- broken legs, surgery recovery, etc. If you have a note from a doctor saying your mobility is limited or that too much walking could exacerbate your condition, you can get one. Why would this upset people? I also think businesses that serve a lot of pregnant women are smart to provide accommodations for women late in their pregnancies. Even if I had not had a disability, I would have appreciated closer parking or a valet option when I was in the last month of my pregnancy. I also had my baby in July and that impacts this too -- there is something unique about being 9 months pregnant and having to walk in 100 degree heat with 90% humidity. That sucks for everyone but it's actually dangerous for someone who is pregnant, so an accommodations is merited. |
Anonymous
Honey. Read. I had a placard. |
Anonymous
Exactly, you don't need random approval from the internet. There is no issue. DCUM isn't issuing placards. If your doctor agrees you need one then you get one. |