I´m in my 38th week of pregnancy now. Dah full term dah org kata. Tunggu hari je org kata. Preparation pon dah ready semua - dr barangan baby, beg nak ke hospital, beg baju salin sikembar (in case kena transitkan diorg kat mana2 while I´m at hospital), barangan postpartum - set jamu, bengkung, tungku, so and so.
Date utk check-ups pon byk - yg klinik kesihatan kerajaan punya, yg kat Hospital Pantai. I maintain both sides, walaupun plan nak bersalin kat private tp just in case kot2 terpaksa bersalin kat government, at least I´m all set.
Ckp pasal check-up kat gomen ni, I just wanna share suara hati I ni. Not really big issue, but just something I wanna ponder about.
When I first started going to klinik kesihatan kerajaan utk antenatal check-up, I was interviewed la utk buka file i.e buku merah. Among the question nurse tu tanya "sekolah sampai tingkatan berapa?" instead of tanya tahap pendidikan. But sy pon satu hal, buat2 bodo ckp "sampai tingkatan 5". Ye la, dah ko tanya aku sekolah sampai tingkatan bape, paling tinggi yg aku attend tingkatan 5 la. Kang jwb sy belajar sampai tahap ijazah, kata berlagak pulak dak? So dia pon tulis kat ruangan "Tahap Pendidikan" tu SPM. Ok, fine, I didn´t bother pon to correct her sbb I wasn´t thinking there would be any impact, besides i wasn´t going for job interview, so what the heck la kan?
Little did I know, it matters somehow indirectly.
Like masa they referred to GH Melaka because I had caesarian case in my first delivery, again I had to go thru another interview sbb diorg nak buka file kat hospital tu. Masa mula2 interview, nurse tu kemain la sombong berckp, layan kita serupa hendak tak hendak and somehow cemana tah along the process, I mentioned I have degree, terus cara dia ckp jadi lain. Terus jadi ala2 lembut gitu and tanya nape kat buku merah tulis SPM aje. Like, seriously does this information make a lot of different?
Dan terus sembang ngan kita ala2 mesra, tanya nape tak kerja, rugi la ada degree tapi tak kerja, sebelum ni keje apa, bla, bla....
Today lak, as I was seeing the doctor kat klinik kesihatan, and she asked how I was doing, ada rasa sakit apa2 ke, I ckp la I ada la rasa contractions sometimes but since it was not consistent, maybe cuma Braxton-Hicks contraction.
And she was so shocked I knew about Braxton-Hicks and blurted out "awak ni staff-nurse ke apa?" and quickly tengok kat muka depan buku merah tu - nak tgk sy keje apa la tu....and then mumbled something like "suami yg pensyarah, awak tak keje...."
Pelik sgt ke if I know about Braxton-Hicks? Like, staff nurse je ke yg tau pasal Braxton-Hicks? Oh, iye la...kata tahap pendidikan sampai SPM je kan nok? Tetiba mention pasal Braxton-Hicks lak....
The thing is, sy dah naik hafal dah kandungan buku What To Expect When You Are Expecting since masa pregnant´kan sikembar lagi and keep reading it from time to time eversince I got pregnant again. And besides, internet kan ada, so siapa2 pon boleh well-informed kalau rajin membaca.
So, moral of the story?
Ntah la...adakah sepatutnya sy insisted dr beginning that tahap pendidikan sy adalah ijazah instead of SPM supaya tidak dipandang rendah?
Or expect these people not to judge other people based on their level of education and occupation?
But seriously la, can we not be prejudice?
Today lak, as I was seeing the doctor kat klinik kesihatan, and she asked how I was doing, ada rasa sakit apa2 ke, I ckp la I ada la rasa contractions sometimes but since it was not consistent, maybe cuma Braxton-Hicks contraction.
And she was so shocked I knew about Braxton-Hicks and blurted out "awak ni staff-nurse ke apa?" and quickly tengok kat muka depan buku merah tu - nak tgk sy keje apa la tu....and then mumbled something like "suami yg pensyarah, awak tak keje...."
Pelik sgt ke if I know about Braxton-Hicks? Like, staff nurse je ke yg tau pasal Braxton-Hicks? Oh, iye la...kata tahap pendidikan sampai SPM je kan nok? Tetiba mention pasal Braxton-Hicks lak....
The thing is, sy dah naik hafal dah kandungan buku What To Expect When You Are Expecting since masa pregnant´kan sikembar lagi and keep reading it from time to time eversince I got pregnant again. And besides, internet kan ada, so siapa2 pon boleh well-informed kalau rajin membaca.
So, moral of the story?
Ntah la...adakah sepatutnya sy insisted dr beginning that tahap pendidikan sy adalah ijazah instead of SPM supaya tidak dipandang rendah?
Or expect these people not to judge other people based on their level of education and occupation?
But seriously la, can we not be prejudice?
