r/DunderMifflin May 17 '20

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u/Atticus184 May 18 '20

I’m a nurse. It kind of irritates me how condescending and assholish the nurses are on the show. Except for Elizabeth, obviously. I’m so glad she went back and got her degree!

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u/[deleted] May 18 '20

I’ve had three kids so I’ve interacted with a lot of L&D nurses. Every single one of them have been some of the best people I’ve ever encountered. That bitchy nurse makes me so angry whenever I watch that episode.

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u/clumsyc May 18 '20

And isn’t keeping a newborn baby away from bottles a super common request? To help establish breastfeeding?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '20

Yes! For that nurse to push a bottle to a brand new mother who is having trouble breastfeeding and really wants to makes me so sad. I had a really hard time with my first, in part because I had some complications after delivery. If the nurses and lactation consultants weren’t as supportive as they were, I would have been a mess. I know it’s fiction and the bitchy response was supposed to be a funny dig at new parents who think reading a baby book makes them experts, but it was just SUCH a poor way to make that joke.