What's the problem with new mom getting out of bed? When my wife had our kid the doctor told her she should try to get up and moving again as soon as she feels ready to aid recovery. When she came in a few hours later and saw my wife already standing up and (slowly) walking around she was happy.
The original post was by the mother who posted this photo along with a caption saying something like "when your husband asks you to get out of bed 5 hours post partum so he can have his dream shot".
Yep, Anne was up in a couple of hours. As soon as she could do a lap around the floor without assistance, she was discharged. She is a Doctor and strongly dislikes hospitals.
She got home and chilled for several weeks. My parents and I looked after her until she was ready to be more active. Dad, who I thought of as the largely absent breadwinner, turned out to be remarkably nurturing! I still don't know if he changed or society did.
27 years later, I am still not allowed to come anywhere near her clothes and the laundry room. For heaven's sake, how was I supposed to know you can't wash the new burgundy 'company towel' with her clothes?
Dad's heart rate may be a little elevated having just witnessed the birth of his child. Some fathers have a reaction to witnessing the miracle of birth, which sometimes resembles a baby being pulled out a lasagna, and it is not unheard of for them to experience tachycardia, hypotension, and syncope.
An individual with a defective cardiac conduction system may be forced into an arrhythmia by abrupt changes in heart rate, which results in all of the above. Dad's lips are white, indicating poor peripheral perfusion, his pupils are dilated, he looks like he just took three epi-pens and he's lying down because he can't stand up.
I saw a reddit post the other day describing the different layers of tissue a C-section cuts through to get to the baby so... lasagna layers. I'm sorry đ
During my csection they told me they just had â2 more layers to stitchâ before I could go see my baby at the nicu and as I was stoned out of my tree at the time I made a joke that âladies are like onionsâ then laughed and laughed at my joke. And when the anesthesiologist didnât laugh hard enough I called him out and accused him of not loving shrek.
This actually made me lol like how dare they not love Shrek and just start howling!? I feel like in that moment I would have laughed harder at the accusation of not loving shrek
Its a very good description, I witnessed the birth of 2 of my 3 son's and never could describe what I witnessed, but after reading that , I must agree that is the best description of the event ever .
Something like this happened during the birth of our second child. I donât know if I looked pale or what but suddenly the nurse said âDad are you ok.â And suddenly they were tending to me.
I was annoyed because 1. My wife is having a baby and needs all the medical attention 2. This was my second go round and I felt fine. 3. They had ignored my repeated remarks about the fact that our first delivery had been precipitous. Maybe I sounded anxious or panicky but I was right. My wife had our second baby 7 minutes after they got us to the delivery room.
No itâs when the baby looks like the dad you check the fathers ekg to see if he has evidence of an inherited cardiac condition when you are worried a baby has a congenital heart defect.
Man its weird, like im fine around blood and gore and everything. When my first child was born watching the bith I got light headed and almost passed out like idk what happened
People with low blood pressure often feel cold even when it's warm. Witnessing something stressful like a birth normally raises your blood pressure so him still being wrapped in a blanket means his normal blood pressure is dangerously low.
Ohhhh so basically he is nervous or panicked asf and Blood pressure dropped lowwww. So he is feeling super cold now. May pass out soon. Which is not a good idea when his wife just brought his baby. Check his ecg to make sure he isnt passing out. Source - Lots of blood pressure issues and often this happened.
As a physician this makes no sense to me. A stress test is meant to uncover an underlying heart condition which is more likely to come out when the heart is stressed.
If he doesnât have an underlying heart condition, there is no point in doing one. A stress test isnât something you give to someone because they are stressed.
Everyoneâs explanations here are wrong. There is a saying in medicine if the baby looks funny look at the dad first. Meaning if you think a baby has a congenital defect or a possibly inherited syndrome look at dad first to see if he has it. Babies can have inherited cardiac conditions so when pediatric cardiologists are looking for these they can check the parents ekgs also. This baby looks like his dad so check his ekg to see if they have the same inheritable cardiac problem
OP, so your post is not removed, please reply to this comment with your best guess of what this meme means! Everyone else, this is PETER explains the joke. Have fun and reply as your favorite fictional character for top level responses!
The joke is a fake âclinical pearlâ built on how the photo looks.
The dad is wrapped in the exact same leopard-print swaddle as the newborn and is lying in the same pose. He looks like a giant version of the baby â pale, tired, slightly vacant expression.
In real life, newborns get heart screening (pulse-ox for critical congenital heart defects, sometimes an ECG if something is off). The meme pretends cardiologists have a rule: if the father is mimicking the baby this hard, skip the infant and check his ECG first. The implication is that he is the one who looks like a cardiac patient â wiped out, ashen, possibly having a stress-related event from the shock of becoming a dad.
Itâs just visual resemblance + hospital-bed setting + a made-up medical rule. No actual cardiology guideline exists.
Thatâs actually what doctors call lessons/takeaways in teaching hospitals. AI picked up that tidbit (pearl?) of jargon probably from absorbing thousands of publicly available teaching decks - every one of them has a bullet list slide of âPearlsâ
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 16h ago
u/Manifester11111, your post does belong here!