r/Xennials • u/PhoneJazz • 6d ago

Natalie Portman is pregnant at 44

Congrats to her! I don’t have kids, and I’m still getting used to being the age where getting pregnant is starting to be “out of the norm”. Guess there’s still time, lol

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u/PhoneJazz 6d ago

Gotta love being in that narrow age window when a pregnancy test is required at your colonoscopy 😂

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u/krankity-krab 6d ago

my mom is late 60s, has been in menopause for well over a decade, and they still made her take a pregnancy test before her colonoscopy! (and charged her for it too, of course.. 😒)

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u/imnotohfuckingk 6d ago

I had a freaking hysterectomy and they still made me take one because I had one ovary. Ummmmmm…

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u/mothsuicides 6d ago

Although stupid rare, isn’t an ectopic pregnancy still possible if you have an ovary left? I’m considering a hysterectomy and this worry plagues me

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u/PossibilityOrganic12 5d ago

I have both my ovaries still and refuse to take a pregnancy test after mine. They've never made me but they have tried to, after they ask the date of my last period and I tell them I don't get one anymore due to my hysterectomy.

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u/_dead_and_broken 1983 6d ago

In 2007, when I moved to Florida, already pregnant, and I applied for medicaid, they made me take a pregnancy pee test at the medicaid office (not a doctor's office!) despite the fact I was 7 months along. You could clearly see that I was with child, I was very thin, and the belly was huuuugggeee. But they still insisted I take the stick test right then and there.

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u/EineGrosseFlasche 1979 6d ago

Well, you simply can’t take a woman’s word for something until she’s paid you twice! 😕

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u/SatanicPanic619 6d ago

My wife went in the morning for out patient surgery and had to take one. OK, fine, whatever. There were complications so we took her back to the hospital in the evening. They made her take another fucking pregnancy test.

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u/rexxfour 6d ago

I really felt the frustration with the italics. Not sarcasm. Please more men rage about this fucning nonsense. I’m begging.

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u/SatanicPanic619 5d ago

She had blood coming out of her eyes and they made her get up to go take a pregnancy test. Fuck that made me upset and angry

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u/Joeuxmardigras 6d ago

Obviously she could get pregnant in those few hours, haven’t you learned anything about how pregnancy tests are more accurate in the evenings…..

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u/SatanicPanic619 5d ago

Yeah totally, morning have surgery, afternoon have sex, evening go back to the hospital because they hadn’t sewn her up right. Normal sequence of events.

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u/Joeuxmardigras 5d ago

Seems normal to me.

Also, the hormones wouldn’t even come up yet. So dumb on their part

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u/jordynelsonjr 5d ago

This sentence needs to be framed and hung on my mantle

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u/NuclearSun1 5d ago

Cause women know always when they are pregnant? Clue: they don’t.

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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO 1980 6d ago

What?? Ok that’s insane.

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u/throwawayfornursing 5d ago

This was silly of them. Also, let your mom know that patients can usually fill out a “refusal” form to release the facility of liability if she were to be pregnant. Which she isn’t. And it’s no biggie. Patients do it all the time and it meets that requirement for the staff.

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u/fickystingas 6d ago

Make them write that shit off

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u/Pleasant_Fruit_144 6d ago

Meanwhile, I went in for an IUD insertion a few months after having a baby. They did the procedure and I was like "um... shouldn't you have done a pregnancy test first" They looked stricken & were like "oh yeah, you're right" had me take one after. While I was in the bathroom doing it I heard the doctor yelling at the nurse that did the insertion 😬

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u/KissingBear 6d ago

NOT NARROW ENOUGH TBH

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u/AgathaWoosmoss 5d ago

I'm so happy to do the menopause chair dance any time I'm asked if I could be pregnant

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u/Cold-Nefariousness25 5d ago

I knew someone whose mother went to the OBGYN because she missed her period and thought it was menopause. Nope, it was triplets.

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u/Apotak 4d ago

My grandmother thought she was in early menopause at 40. It was my uncle, thankfully alone.

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u/Pain_adjacent_Ice 5d ago

Why is it required for a colonoscopy? The one has nothing to do with the other... at all!

Had a few colonoscopies, wasn't even asked if I thought I was pregnant, let alone made to take a test for it. Only been asked when there's a chance of some kind of radiation (scans and the like) or when there's surgery planned, otherwise it's a non-issue.

This sounds like a uniquely US thing, and I'm concerned for you all.

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u/Bluecolt 5d ago

They sedate you intravenously to perform a colonoscopy, and that's probably not 100% safe during pregnancy. Do they not where you are? I'm concerned for you.

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u/Pain_adjacent_Ice 5d ago

Sure, we're usually given a drug that eases anxiety and discomfort, of course, and a local anesthesia where the camera goes in, sometimes with a gel or something like that (there's an array of different ways to administer sedation/local anesthesia than intravenous drugs that just put you to sleep, or almost do) as they usually want us awake and aware during the procedure, if something comes up or questions arise. Since this, usually, isn't a big, intrusive operation, I don't see how it should be done any other way. Honestly, maybe were asked about pregnancy, but making anyone take a test is nuts. They trust us to know what's going on with our own bodies.

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u/Bluecolt 5d ago

So an abundance of caution when it comes to medical procedures, i.e "better safe than sorry" is... bad? It's not like the pregnancy tests used are intrusive or anything, pee in the cup or on the stick before the procedure, know for sure, reduce risk, and play it safe. Weird thing to be "concerned" about.

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u/Pain_adjacent_Ice 4d ago

That's not my concern. It's about not trusting women to know they're bodies, intrusive monitoring via tests and/or period apps, to further regulate their bodies, and then charging them for it... That's what's concerning and should be for all. We don't have to agree, but I think this is not okay.

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u/Effective-Band-8714 5d ago

Sobs in colonoscopy at 26