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Gender neutral language in pregnancy care

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QuirkyJadeSwan · 10/10/2024 02:49

So I’m currently pregnant with my first and have been kind of low key annoyed with how common discussions around pregnancy and related topics remove to term woman or female (I.e birthing people). I started getting bugged by this during my trying to conceive phase and now it bugs me even more. I know it’s kind of a minor thing in the grand scheme of things but I needed to vent. Seriously going through TTC & pregnancy has made me about 10x more aware of how different physically women are.

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DifficultBloodyWoman · 10/10/2024 04:06

YANBU

QuirkyJadeSwan · 10/10/2024 03:46

New2024newname · 10/10/2024 03:28

How far along are you? Have you received much antenatal care yet? I’ve found that although blogs/podcasts/social media/HR policies may refer to pregnant people, the NHS and healthcare professionals all know that only women get pregnant. Never in my interactions with actual HCPs have they used weird gender neutral language. Also you’ll find that as soon as you start having discussions about whether the baby is a boy or a girl, everyone is very clear that sex is biological and you can work it out from looking at genitalia!! I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how unwoke it’s all been.

Im 18 weeks. I’ve had a couple of appointments already and my provider has actually been pretty good. It’s just all the online guides and Reddit forums/threads that do it mostly.

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New2024newname · 10/10/2024 03:28

How far along are you? Have you received much antenatal care yet? I’ve found that although blogs/podcasts/social media/HR policies may refer to pregnant people, the NHS and healthcare professionals all know that only women get pregnant. Never in my interactions with actual HCPs have they used weird gender neutral language. Also you’ll find that as soon as you start having discussions about whether the baby is a boy or a girl, everyone is very clear that sex is biological and you can work it out from looking at genitalia!! I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how unwoke it’s all been.

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