Dr. Storks Episode 6

Infertility and mom discrimination in workplace

This episode shows the struggle of 40+ age group new mothers. These are the women that did not put careers on hold and started wanting a family around age 38. Most of them needed years of fertility treatment to then be in high risk pregnancies. When ER doc shot off his mouth how she should have had baby ten years earlier, he got an earful from the women. For many it is either/ or choice between motherhood and career. The young widower is feeling this discrimination too as his pet project is getting turned over to young recruits because he needs to pick up his daughter rather than entertain clients. For the most part, employers don’t care about the family situation, they just want to see results at the workplace. The hospital where they work doesn’t talk about daycare on premises, so these women feel the crunch of having shift work with trying to consider having a family. The mother with lucky charm did have her baby, but complications resulted in a hysterectomy. She asked if her age was the reason and the doctors had to admit it was a factor. There was another patient that lost her child but she was saved. It hits the team hard that the baby was lost. They like success with mother and child. But sometimes, that isn’t possible and choices have to be made. I like how Komatsu reminded the administrator of his age and what got the job done when he flippantly talked of a patient’s uterus performing it’s job before loss.😝 Seems some of these men need the reminder. ‘Baby’ is playing but again has to dash out for an emergency. He is calling his team to get ready as he rushes to hospital.

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