r/parentsofmultiples • u/mrekted • Sep 16 '22
Official! PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT MEDICAL QUESTIONS, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR USERS TO INTERPRET YOUR ULTRASOUND
We have seen a big uptick in posts from new users seeking medical advice, and users posting their ultrasounds asking other users for opinions.
This is a violation of rule #3 - No medical questions. Any such posts will be removed.
This rule is in place for everyone's safety. The rationale is that we a small mod team, we're not medical professionals, and as such we can't properly vet the information that is being provided. Putting aside for the moment the very real risk of trolls deliberately misleading people, it's far too easy for even well intentioned misinformation to slip through. This poses a risk not only to the user who asks the question, but also to people in the future who might find these posts after searching for information on the same topic.
A safe and healthy pregnancy is far too precious a thing to risk by allowing unfiltered medical opinions to potentially impact the decisions of expectant parents - these questions need to be addressed by a qualified health care professional.
To be clear - posts and comments discussing your medical experiences are perfectly acceptable. As a rule of thumb, as long as the threshold from "here's what I experienced/here's what I did" to "here's what you should be doing" isn't crossed, the sharing of your experiences is more than welcomed.
Also, please keep posting pics of your (professionally confirmed) multiple pregnancy ultrasounds. We do enjoy those!
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u/masofon Sep 16 '22
I find the posts of ultrasounds, with comments like "The technician/doctor said this might be twins but you can't tell yet... what do you guys think?" quite bizarre... like we're somehow going to be able to know better than the professionals.
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u/septbabygirl Sep 16 '22
Agree. Or the posts where people say “they said it’s not twins, but it looks like twins.. what do you think???”
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u/MintzMadison Feb 10 '24
I don’t see how me posting a picture of my “professionally confirmed” ultrasound asking if you guys can guess the gender is me asking for medical advice?
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u/kumibug Feb 10 '24
From the title “including requests for users to interpret your ultrasound”
“Guessing the sex of the baby” is ultrasound interpretation.
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u/MintzMadison Feb 10 '24
But not a medical interpretation. So not medical advice. It’s a professionally confirmed ultrasound.
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u/kumibug Feb 10 '24
If it’s been “professionally confirmed” then why are you asking?
Again, it’s interpreting an ultrasound. That’s all there is to it.
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u/MintzMadison Feb 10 '24
For fun. Not for medical advice at all. I’m not going to go paint a room pink because kumibug on Reddit said she saw a vagina. 😂
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