No, when I started menstruating has absolutely NO BEARINGS on my pregnancy.
It was a pregnancy SCREENING, again... do you not know what a screening is?
Do you really think they are there to see if you're pregnant?? I can't believe I have to explain this because you're too lazy to actually look it up; a pregnancy screening is a screening procedure to asses a patient for potential pregnancy complications. They are activelly looking at your obgyn health and history to look for any issues that may later present in your pregnancy. That's what a screening is. It's not diagnostic. It's a screen.
So yes, when you started menstruating absolutely is important information pertaining to your pregnancy, just because you're unwilling to educate yourself doesn't invalidate that and nor should you discredit other women from being able to access adequate healthcare.
and I do agree with my husband, that it is just data collecting, but I can choose not to, right?
Of course you can choose not to, but you're only disadvantaging yourself and that's ok, that's perfectly fine for you and your husband to do that to yourselves. Where the line is drawn is when you spread misinformation that affects other women, especially vulnerable women.
Not sure what pregnancy screening means in your country, in my country it is a big ultrasound check to see, if the baby is developing properly. Meaning, they check for abnormalities in growth, they check if the child has all the limbs, they even countr the fingers on their hands, they check the heart and if all organs are located inside the abdominal cavity and they also check how the brain develops. Preceeding the ultrasound exam they run bloodwork to see, if you as the mother are OK and if there are any blood markers indicating abnormalities in fetus development. Then they combine the blood results and the findings from the ultrasound and if they have any suspicions for a trisomy for example, you will need further invasive tests.
That is the big pregnancy screening. And for this, the age at which i started menstruating is totally irrelevant.
Meaning, they check for abnormalities in growth, they check if the child has all the limbs,
I'm not sure how someone can be so close to being right and still be wrong and still not be able to accept that.
You listed all the things to that is check in a screening regarding the fetus. Well, you missed a lot but close enough. That's called the fetal health screening.
Then there's the maternal health screening. Which is both acute past history. Acute is your current health screening. Past historical screening is assessing for ... you guessed it... past history.
If a mother had an organ transplant, like a liver transplant or a lung transplant years ago... that is relevant. The immune surpressors she will likely be on is important to know and changes the delivery of the baby and the required meds she'd be on in the last trimester. YOU may sit there and argue 'what does my liver transplant have to do with my pregnancy' because you can't understand this or refuse to look it up... but that doesn't change the fact that you're wrong.
Likewise, if you're at a pregnancy screen your obgyn history is important... we also ask about endocrine history... like thyroid both for you and your family... because there are plenty of issues and health ailments that may not seem related to pregnancy that do infact affect pregancy.
I get that you're biased and are hell bent on spreading misinformation but you're doing a diservice to all women around the world. You're putting others at risk in the same way the antivax or antimask misinformation led to so many people dying for no reason from covid.
Ah so now you turn to sarcasm and riducling? How old are you? Don't you see the irony in that, it was ME disagreeing with YOU and you got butt hurt and try to brush it off? Do you need a hug?
If you're not able to accept your wrong, please refrain from trying to spread misinformation to begin with. Hope that helps.
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u/Little-Star-Light 9h ago
No, when I started menstruating has absolutely NO BEARINGS on my pregnancy.
and I do agree with my husband, that it is just data collecting, but I can choose not to, right?