Leslie Loftis
1 min readFeb 11, 2018

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Piling on, in my discussions with OB/GYN‘s, they routinely express extreme frustration at patients not listening to them, particularly young patients. They can tell a 25-year-old woman about various fertility issues, but she doesn’t hear them because getting pregnant much less being pregnant is not a concern of hers yet. Or if she does hear, she may dismiss the concerns as the uncaring medical profession trying to scare her, medicalize pregnancy, or mansplain fertility if it is a male doc. She goes to more “women friendly” carers and/or stops asking. Then, at 30 and pregnant, or 35 and not quickly pregnant, she starts researching, realizing how little she knows, and assumes it is because she was never told.

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Leslie Loftis
Leslie Loftis

Written by Leslie Loftis

Teacher of life admin and curator of commentary. Occasional writer.

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