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Re: Work in PregnancyFrom: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)Fri Aug 18 09:35:44 2000
At Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Paula R. Dhanda, MD wrote: > >Does wnyone have guidelines for work in pregnancy. I am getting a lot >of requests for disability especially from nurses saying they cannot >lift. > >Thank you > >-- >Paula R.Dhanda, MD, FACOG, FASC > I allow women to do whatever they feel comfortable doing, but if a woman says there is something she can't do because of the pregnancy, I take her word for it, always. The type of lifting that nurses do, if done over a large abdomen with an altered center of gravity, can be hazardous and very uncomfortable. I myself had such bad back pains when I was pregnant that I could not sit in the same position for more than 10-15 minutes at a time and had to get up and walk frequently. Fortunately that's what I do all day anyway so it was no big deal (except when I took boards), but I would even give a disability note to a secretary who told me she couldn't sit all day if she asked for one. After all, it is only for a few months and I have dealt with a bunch of non-pregnant people whose questionable disabilities go on forever.
-- Anna Meenan, MD
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