Thursday, April 10, 2008

Minute Clinic? Nah, just use Google.

Moms are known for being paranoid about their own health. They obsessively search sites like WebMD, maniacally clicking on lists of symptoms like they've just hit the hypochondriac lottery.

Make them responsible for a miniature human, and the mania multiples a gazillion percent.

I'd easily wager that pediatricians feel a strong urge to kick parents in the shins everytime they hear, "But I read on the internet that...." They may have even considered putting up signs that read, "NO CELLPHONES AND/OR WIKIPEDIA MEDICAL DISCUSSION ALLOWED DURING APPOINTMENTS".

While pregnant, I found myself wondering how women did it without the internet. Where would they search for lists of food that may harm their fetal inhabitant? How did they live without posting discussions about sex during pregnancy or bitch about how much weight they're gaining? THE HORROR!

Strangly enough, we're alive. Some of us are even having our own babies. Our mothers may have even eaten soft cheese and/or fish with a high level mercury content while we occupied their uterus. My own mother said she asked her doctor if she could still rollerskate while pregnant. (Apparently she and my father were regulars at the skate rink.) Can you imagine a mom's response to a "Skating While Pregnant Post" on a message board? Heads would explode.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You are funny to me