...because cross to be given back urine sample

[raindropsonroses]

at ante natal appointment.
I'm expected to tip out said sample and rinse for my next appointment as they don't give out new ones anymore...apparently.
Yuk!! I am not happy, but aibu?

After (the admittedly few) rows with DH during that period I did consider a strategic toothbrush substitution...luckily I never quite felt evil enough

Dp used to find mine, (full) in very unlikely places, as I used to bring them home, put them down and forget to empty them.

Sorry but YABU, the NHS is cash strapped enough, without providing endless pots for pregnant women to piss in.

I must admit to feeling a bit about how someone will cope with childbirth, breastfeeding, and nappy changes, etc, if they find the thought of emptying a pot of their own wee into the toilet so worrying

You saved me a post F&Z.

AIBU

I put food in one end and it came out the other, fast and furious.

it is called reuse and recycle, no?

it is your wee.

yabu.

Can't resist....

AIBU

I put food in one end and it came out the same end, fast and splattery.

Yup, four pots, four pregnancies. Tis the way it goes. When you think of how much stuff gets used once then thrown out in the health service I'm glad they see sense on this one!

YABU!! think of the cost to the NHS, I used to just nip in the loo tip it out and wash it out, at the end of the day it's your piss, why should you expect someone else to do it for you??? If you think thats bad just wait until your LO has a poo explosion

If you object to having to pour it down the bog so much, perhaps you could drink it there and then to save you the trip.

Very good for the skin I believe.....

lol YABU, it is only your piss you know, and presumably some of it went on your fingers as you tried to piss in the pot.

Hang on, how pg are you? Because believe me by the end of your pregnancy there aint no way you can see where you're pissing, so you have to reach underneath with the pot and move it around in a brownian motion type manouver and hope with all your strength that some of your piss will have gone in.

Its quite an art. I reccommend you start practicing asap.

Oh and empty pot, wash in oaopy water, rinse, air dry. Fine to piss in again.

i was actually surprised this pregnancy when they give me a fresh pot each time.

Perhaps we could all write to Gordon Brown about the possibility of top up charges so that we can have a fresh piss pot every time we go to see the MW? On second thoughts I'd rather pay for an anaethetist who had been fully trained and was not doing a YTS, or a MW to spend longer than 17 minutes with me over 18 hours.

Just be grateful that for now it's your piss and not someone else's that you are dealing with.

if you feel that strongly, then go and buy them from boots, they cost 12p last time i had to buy one.

YABU if you think wee is yuk. it is your bodily fluid, and when you get towards end of pregnancy and have to wee every 10 minutes, have heavier discharge, tehn have labour and delivery involving any or all of the following:

amniotic fluid, wee , sick, poo, blood, sweat and gawd knows what else...

YABU to get prim about emptying a small pot of your own wee down the loo

also not very environmentally friendly to have a new one each time

god slubber I remember that, there was an awful incident when I managed to piss down my combats which showed up pretty nice as I had to walk through the waiting room, you do stop caring though. I couldn't resist smelling mine, I am strange!

but then it is not sterile and could be contaminated by tap water or previous wee!

I would go through those paralysed fear of indecision moments in the loo, clutching my pot, because of course you alwayes piss a little bit down the side. So then you are left thinking 'well I must wash this off, I'm not going to hand my moistly pissy pot to the MW' so you rinse it and then the sticky labelon the outside goes all wet looking and furry and you think 'CHRIST the MW will think I'm some sort of malco piss freak that so much of it has gone on the label and not in the pot'.

aaaaaaaaaaaarh

This is one of the reasons I'm not having any more children. Piss pot loo angst.

if you are that bothered get some milton t

bethoo it doesn't need to be sterile. They're not checking for bacteria with the dip test, just protein (&glucose?? ).

They are checking for diabetes, not for a UTI.

Slubber -thank you for the brownian motion reminder. God, I had forgotten that.

Why would you try to piss into the pot? I got some disposable plastics cups for the purpose. Much easier to piss into... then tip into pot. No mess!

MW tipped out sample and rinsed it each time and gave it back... no drama

potoroo, you sound very sensible and forward thinking.
I was generally pissing in a panic 10 mins before MW appointment, hence lack of accuracy and wet label issues.

wash it out in the sink in the loo
its much mvre envirvnmental
although maybe its not best practice in terms of sample contamination,