One of the greatest travesties imposed on pregnant woman is the urine sample collected at every visit. I know, your thinking "Buck up. It's just peeing in a cup."To you I offer a challenge. Get a large, oblong watermelon to hold between your thighs. Sit down on the porcelain throne (no cheating guys) and try to bend your body around the watermelon- never letting it slip of fall- and stick your little dixie cup where you think the urine stream is going. Don't be alarmed if you can't see what the heck you are doing. That is all part of the process. Begin your business and move the cup- still blindly- as needed to actually catch a little bit in the cup.
"But won't I pee on myself?" you ask. Of course you will. It's all part of the magic. The last step is to remove the urine sample and attempt to balance it while cleaning off the outside of the cup, without dripping any on yourself or the floor.
Please note- as your pregnancy progresses and the watermelon increases in size, the frequency of this little exercise increases. Just one of the ways our medical community prepares you for the total lose of dignity you will experince during labor and delivery.
Thanks doc for looking out for me!
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and on top of all of that, I am trying to keep Avery from unrolling all the toilet paper!
You have explained it beautifully!!! I am glad to hear you are feeling well.
Love, Marg
Nasty! Maybe I won't have kids after all. Last week in my physiology lab we had to pee in cups and that just about killed me.
Perfect explanation! Made me laugh with memories spilling forth! Was fun to talk to you at church yesterday!
So true! And when you're a diabetic, you have to do it at 2 sets of appointments, sometimes twice in the same day!!! ugh to the cup!
Glad to hear things are going well!!! Congrats!
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