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AIBU?

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Original poster

...because cross to be given back urine sample

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raindropsonroses · 03/09/2008 01:24

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?

OP posts:

potoroo · 03/09/2008 09:51

Slubber - I don't think anyone has ever said that to me before.

(BTW I am PMSL over your fairground faux pas on the other thread)...

LackaDAISYcal · 03/09/2008 09:56

lol...to echo everyone else....yabu. tis only a bit of wee and a few more plastic bottles saved from landfill can only be a good thing imo.

bethoo, it doesn't need to be sterile, and cross contaminated with what exactly? if the contaminants in my drinking water supply were such that other ladies wee was showing protein and sugar in my sample from a minute trace of it on the inside of a reused pot, I'd be extremely concerned and on the phone to the local water authority as soon as possible!

and OP, I'm loving your name in the context of this thread .....it's not raindropsonroses, it's piss in a pot

MissusH · 03/09/2008 09:58

same here - recycle same pot over and over and empty it myself.

And same as Hedgewitch - peeing directly in the pot is guaranteed to result in a wet hand (especially now I'm 37wks and can just about reach round the bump )

Snaf · 03/09/2008 10:10

Newsflash: the NHS does not have unlimited resources to spend on millions of wee pots. Can't believe that you seriously think this is an issue. Chuck it down the loo in the surgery if it's that big a deal.

It never ceases to amaze me, the look on some women's faces when they get their full pot handed back to them - as if they haven't been carrying it around in their handbag for the last hour anyway...

Oh, and by the way, you don't need to fill it up to the brim. In fact... please don't

ShowOfHands · 03/09/2008 10:16

Yes wee in a plastic jug and decant you fools. Don't wee on your hand unnecessarily. Rinse out jug and replace on shelf next to plastic sieve bought in readiness for waterbirth and necessary scooping of bodily emissions.

OP, wee really is inoffensive in comparison to what is to come. It's normal practice, just empty it down the loo and wash the thing out for next time.

Snaf · 03/09/2008 10:18

And it doesn't really need to be sterile, just clean. Rinsing out then dunking it in some boiled water when you get home will do the job perfectly well.

AuraofDora · 03/09/2008 10:19

i got a fresh pot each time and it makes sense not to, really..
they didnt ever give it back it went for tests? as long as its been tested i would think it okay with it..

or you could shock surgery and be floor show and drink it! like that actress who adovcates that cant her remember name at the mo..saw her on talk show years ago!

or
you could customise it with stickers, or a mini faux banksy, esp good if label gets obscured... and then you might want it back

yabu sorry, we must recycle

special jug pot to piss in is a good idea never thought of that!

NorthernLurker · 03/09/2008 10:20

YABU. It's really not that big a deal!

Important public information notice though - if you wrap some toilet roll around the pot before you use it this will soak up any splashing and can be rapidly discarded allowing you to preserve the label in it's non bobbly state! (and have a dry hand)

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 03/09/2008 10:23

YABU

CatIsSleepy · 03/09/2008 10:24

potoroo you are a genius
am going to take a plastic cup to my next midwives appointment

i also get extremely paranoid about handing over a wet piss-pot to the midwife. I try and avoid this by wrapping 10 yards of loo roll around the pot before peeing

hughjarssss · 03/09/2008 10:28

Its EEEwwwwwwwwwww to me - sorry. Its not natural or normal to carry piss around with you in your handbag - people would be disgusted if I pulled a piece of shit stored in tupperware out of my handbag.

I never carried it around with me (the urine sample that is). When the midwife asked I would say I forgot and then use the toilet in the surgery.
When she gave it me back I would discreetly leave it on the desk and if she mentioned it next time, I'd just say I forgotten it.

I wouldn't mind if I could have disposed of it in the surgery toilet but it was always locked and you had to ask for a key. They should have given me the option of getting rid of it in the surgery.

AuraofDora · 03/09/2008 10:33

i refer you to f&z post about if this puts you off

its pee thats all get over it yerself!

hughjarssss · 03/09/2008 10:41

Yes dear, I know its pee. That is why I find it revolting.

snorris · 03/09/2008 10:55

At my local ante-natal clinic you have to hand in your labelled pot at reception when you check in and then after seeing the midwife the emptied pots are ready for collection on a trolley. My eldest dd is 13 so this system's worked for at least 14 years!

babyinbelly · 03/09/2008 10:59

You should think yourself lucky. I am not even given one pot at the start. Have to buy my own from boots!

I am also extremely likely to forget about it and leave it in my bag so am a bit paranoid this time.

What a wonderful idea with the plastic cups! cant believe I never thought about that before! Pure genius.

Cant see the problem with having to carry it around tbh. Just think about all the ppeople who go to the loo and dont wash their hands. They carry piss around all day long!

Aefondkiss · 03/09/2008 11:01

urine is sterile isn't it?

get one of these if your aim isn't good shewee

yabu imho

Mogsmum · 03/09/2008 11:08

Aefondkiss - my MIL has a shewee for those caught short on a long walk times, she thinks it's amazing.

As for OP YABU. It's pee, and it's yours. Wait until you have LO bodily fluids to cope with, it won't be just wee all over your hands, face, legs, bedromm walls......... . Have you seen that Huggies ad, my Ds thinks it's hysterical.

And plastic cups/a special jug is definitely the way forward

Sidge · 03/09/2008 11:16

It's urine not liquid plutonium.

And it's YOUR urine for that matter. It's not like they are asking you to reuse someone else's pee pot.

And no, infection control rules mean that we can't put urine (or any other bodily waste) down a sink.

Just rinse it out then wash it in hot soapy water, it's no big deal.

Aefondkiss · 03/09/2008 11:17

I like the look of the deluxe shewee Mogsmum, it comes with its own carrier and extra long piping .

belgo · 03/09/2008 12:10

Alkar- I assume in a laboratory you are dealing with bodily fluids from many different people, so of course cross infection is an issue in those circumstances.

Giving a pregnant woman one pot for her own urine for the whole of her pregnancy does assume that the woman does can deal with a certain amount of responsibility to clean out the pot and look after it, and has the intelligence to clean it out properly.

I find it insulting to think that we wouldn't be able to cope with doing this.

Mogsmum · 03/09/2008 12:32

Aefondkiss Yes! I've never seen MIL shewee, but she thinks it's the bees knees. Must be the deluxe model as she has a little bag for it!!

notcitrus · 03/09/2008 12:41

My community midwives' practice do this - it saves them a fortune because they only need half as many bottles, not to mention costs of clinical waste collection and incineration.

Either the midwife tips the contents down her sink, or I do it in the ladies, rinse it, and end of problem. It's then as clean as my hands are after having been to the loo!

My first job was testing if, ahem, 'faecal samples' could be collected by patients at home, smeared onto a special folding postcard, and posted to the lab to save money. Luckily I was given a fume hood and lab coat as well as gloves and a selection of faecal samples of varying consistency, as I still concluded it would be completely unfeasible to get people to do that at home, not to mention being illegal to send shit through the regular post. So count yourselves lucky...

hollyandnoah · 03/09/2008 12:45

how did you get the pee to the appointment? i'm assuming it was transported there in the first place? If you done it when you got there, why dont you go back to the toilet and pour and rinse it there?

TheProvincialLady · 03/09/2008 12:46

tamarto · 03/09/2008 14:22

Great thread

I haven't got a pot to piss in

I'd completely forgotten about pee pot etiquette!

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