Overprotected Pregnant Women

	posted by D on Wednesday March 26, @08:29PM from the Fatherhood dept.
	Brightwriter writes "We fathers have been duped. Pregnant women are told not to lift anything weighing over 20 pounds, but my (pregnant) wife's obstetrician could give no rationale for that edict when we asked what (bad) would happen if she did so. The obstetrician said prospective studies were unethical, and that's that. Problem: a pregnant woman with a child already born will lift him/her often, obstetrician edict or no. Anything more likely to go wrong if it is not a first pregnancy (and the mother often lifts a pre-existing child)? I think not, else where is the evidence? This myth needs formal challenge in the medical community. I am a doctor."

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Ummmm... (Score:2) by frank h on Wednesday March 26, @09:44PM EST (#1) (User #141 Info) My wife was told no such thing; our oldest is 19 and our youngest is 14.

Re:Ummmm... (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday March 27, @04:22AM EST (#2) If this was all men faced, we would be living in utopia. I have no problems about lifting stuff while my wife is pregnant. With all the other issues facing men today, in healthcare alone see http://www.menshealthnetwork.org, this seems trivial.

Re:Ummmm... (Score:1) by brightwriter on Saturday March 29, @11:07AM EST (#6) (User #1217 Info) Trivial relative to other issues such as biased child-custody and domestic-violence trials, of course. But though trivial by your stndards, it is completely indefensible and easily understood. I therefore submit it as proof of bias. If you want to help your pregnant wife because she appreciates it, good for you. (I feel the same about my wife.) I vigorously object being told to be helpful by a lying obstetrician, however, and being coerced into doing it out of fear. It's the difference between obeying popular social standards (which can be violated without formal penalty) and obeying edicts that are forced on us (which can not).

Re:Ummmm... (Score:1) by cshaw on Thursday March 27, @10:36AM EST (#4) (User #19 Info) http://home.swbell.net/misters/index.html I believe that this question is more of a medical issue rather than a "Men's Issue" as women, when pregnant carry infants of both sexes. Plato, in his book "Laws" made some very insightful statements with regard to this issue with which I believe, in general, I agree. They are:" given any more than ourselves, and least of all the newly-born infant, for in infancy more than at any other time the character is engrained by habit. Nay, more, if I were not afraid of appearing to be ridiculous, I would say that a woman during her year of pregnancy should of all women be most carefully tended, and kept from violent or excessive pleasures and pains, and should at that time cultivate gentleness and benevolence and kindness."     C.V. Compton Shaw

Hey D (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday March 27, @09:56AM EST (#3) Hiya! Saw your post. See that you are a physician. So am I! Haven't run across too many in the medical profession who are particularly motivated, so far as men's issues are concerned. Pass me by an email at juliandroms@yahoo.com! Take care. :)

Re:Hey D (Score:1) by brightwriter on Saturday March 29, @10:57AM EST (#5) (User #1217 Info) I think most medical schools choose doctors for their politically correct (including pro-feminist) views. No wonder so few doctors seem interested in men's rights.

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