to think urine sample containers are the WRONG BLOODY SHAPE for women?!

[wolfhound]

I mean - weeing into a test tube? Is that really the best design anyone could come up with? Maybe it's okay for men, but it's very inconvenient for women. A sort of funnel shape would be better, no? Or am I just very cackhanded?

I used to use the little plastic thing for filling up the iron - perfect shape.

DH does all the ironing. Never told him?

At our midwives we had packs that came with a small funnel which made it fairly straighforward to collect, though I would mostly miss and end up with about 2ml for the midwife.

However when at the hospital when i thought my waters had gone, i was given just the tube, and promptly peed all over my hand and came out sample-less. Thankfully being 38 weeks pregnant I didn't have to wait too long to go again. Though this time i asked for a plastic cup to erm decant the sample

Buy some plastic cups from Poundland.

Gaston - yes my hosptial was Kings

ha ha slightlymad! i had similar experience last time. The MW said it was the smallest sample she had ever seen (she did manage to get the dipstick in though)

maryportas, oh yes, i remember those big cardboard potties. Perhaps i'll get some of those, and carry that into the surgery next week :)

Gaston - really! can't understand why they don't have those funnel ones generally then, if they're already in existence! Bad enough when your preggers, must be a nightmare for elderly women needing to give samples too.

Lol at not telling your DH, Minnie :)

The maternity clinic at my local hospital always had a stack of foil pie dishes in the toilets. Wee in the pie dish and then decant into test tube.
It made life much easier, especially as the foil could be pinched into a handy spout shape.

I changed clinic partway through pg, and the second one used plastic cups - much cheaper and much easier - if they're literally going to stick a test stick into it there and then, this makes much more sense than using those teeny-tiny lidded pots! Which I hated.

There are usually plastic cups next to the water machine / drinks station at our ante natal clinic. I always peed in one of those, and then transferred.

The comments in the OP are exactly, word for word, what one of my classmates said to our very young Biology teacher when we were asked to do the same thing for a urine experiment.
His face didn't return to its natural colour for the whole double session
So no, yanbu - high time they addressed it.

Also , on the same track, ever tried to get your baby DS to wee into a Petrie dish??

I am envious of the consideration given to Bogeyface's DH. When I had to give a post-vasectomy semen sample not only was the sample tube almost impossibly narrow it also had very sharp edges [wince]

My dd 14 had to do a sample yesterday.
She is cack handed so I suggested she do it in a plastic disposable beaker.
She then proudly carried up the full to the brim plastic cup upstairs to show me....
She spent the next 20mins getting pee out of the stair carpet.

I may be in a minority here, but I'm not bothered by a bit of my own piss of my hand. I just wash it afterwards.

I'd far rather that that arsing about with decanting from coffe jars etc

I used the thing to fill the iron too . Our MW weren't allowed to empty them down the sink and we had to reuse them, so we had to take them home full. My GP was pretty disgusted.