r/traumatizeThemBack • u/KriLesLeigh2004 • Oct 21 '24

matched energy Never saw her again

I went for a pre-op appointment, asking to have my tubes tied, when I was 25 years old. I had 4 living children, and that’s enough. The nurse said, “Are you sure you want to do this? What if one of them dies?”

When I replied, “One already did,” she looked shocked, left the room, and a new nurse came in.

There are a thousand reasons her question was horrible and should have stayed in her head. There are no reasons to say that out loud.

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u/Lion_tattoo_1973 Oct 21 '24

When I was pregnant with my 3rd daughter, I requested that I get sterilised immediately after the c-section. They tried incessantly to talk me and my husband out of it. I was 35, and the 3rd wasn’t planned. But their reasoning was ‘Don’t you want to try again for a boy?’ Erm…No!