I swore at my doctor while I was in labour - now my husband says I should apologise

“If he can't handle what a person may say while in EXTREME pain, he's in the wrong business…”

Pippa* had been in labour for nearly 30 hours. There was no doubt she was physically drained and suffering an exhausting amount of pain. 

The contractions were getting more frequent and intense; the pain was indescribable, and the 28yo felt like she was about to pass out. 

Due to a heart condition, she was unable to undergo an epidural, meaning she had to face the pain head-on. 

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Pippa told her doctor to go f**k himself. Source: iStock

Luckily, she was surrounded by the medical team, who were helping as much as they could. 

Then a round of “awful” contractions started kicking in, she told Reddit, and she couldn’t hold it in anymore.

Pippa screamed out “Jesus f**king Christ” in between breaths, pushing through the pain.

“My doctor looked at me and said, ‘Please don’t use the Lord’s name in vain,’” the stunned woman wrote.

Without a second thought, Pippa snapped her head to the doctor and screamed at him: “Go f**k yourself.” 

The room went quiet, and the doctor didn’t say anything else until the baby was born a short while later. 

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Pippa quickly forgot about the exchange after her baby was born, but the outburst stuck with her husband. 

“[He] told me maybe I should apologise,” she said, adding she didn’t consider it when she was at the hospital. 

“Thinking back on it, maybe I should have,” she considered, now feeling “pretty guilty” about what she said to her doctor, who she said was “great” until she swore at him. 

“I am considering sending an apology note to the hospital,” she concluded before asking the Reddit community if she was out of line for her mid-labour blow-up. 

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“Your doctor was incredibly rude and unprofessional”

Thankfully, Pippa wasn’t crucified for her outburst and reassured her that she had no need to apologise. 

“I cannot imagine that that is the worst thing any ob-gyn heard during a birth,” a person said. 

“I had a completely unmedicated labour (not by choice),” a mum added. “At one point a male doctor came in and told me that I needed to relax and stop screaming. I told him to f**k off.”

“I work in labour and delivery and have heard every swear that has ever existed,” a medical professional wrote. “No one should be telling you not to swear while you are in pain. Your doctor was incredibly rude and unprofessional.” 

But it was the doctor’s unwarranted response to the mum’s swearing that really threw people off-guard. 

“Whatever you do don't apologise,” someone suggested. “Your doctor CHOSE THAT PROFESSION, knowing full well the kinds of stress and agony people would be under. And this selfish p***k knew you couldn't even use anesthesia.”

“Tell your a**hole of a husband that he and the judgmental a**hole of a doctor can discuss your language after they pass a kidney stone the size of a lemon unbroken out of their urethra,” a woman wrote. 

“Your doctor was in the wrong, full stop,” said another. “If he can't handle what a person may say while in EXTREME pain, he's in the wrong business.”

*Names have been changed

Originally published as I swore at my doctor while I was in labour - now my husband says I should apologise