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OT: About 'Brangelina': Warning: NC-17 thread (I think)
Sheyne:
POSSIBLE TMI Warning (for you fellas who may be a bit faint-hearted... David, just uhhh... put on some more tea, hunh?)
Thanks gals, I have been chuckling along... god some of these posts brought back memories.. lol..
Re C-section v Natural birth.. I wanted a natural birth with William - I really did. But the doc estimated his birth weight at 9lb or more and said - and I quote - "there's no way you're pushing out a baby that size on an untried-cervix" (which, at a week past my due date, hadn't even begun to soften and I looked like a walking duplex).. Well, I am VERY glad I decided to take the cut because Will came out at 10lb 5oz. :-X *sheyne crosses legs at the mere thought*
And then of course, 2 weeks later, I'm laying on his bed having my post natal exam, I'm naked from the waist down, my legs up in the stirrups, trying desperately to think of England or something and he says - as he's peer "down there" - "Oh would you look at that!!!" NOT the comment you want to hear when a doctor is peering at your nether regions. I politely enquired as to what was so interesting and he remarked "You could have delivered him naturally after all - you've got perfect child bearing hips".
Didn't know whether to laugh or punch his lights out.. ???
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: JennyC on May 31, 2006, 09:55:30 pm ---I did not have a c-section. Glad that I did not need one. I thank whoever invented Epidural. It’s my advice for every first time mom.
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Mine, too, Jenny. I say to them "I have one word: Epidural." Ed says, "Epidural - ask for it early, ask for it often." I had to wait 90 eternal minutes for my bloodwork to come back OK and the anesthesiologist to magically appear. 90 minutes in the "transitional phase." I thought I was gonna shoot right out of my skin. It felt like being hari-karied (sp?) through the back with swords. When he came in, I swear I saw a halo over his head. Nothing better than looking at that monitor spike almost off the screen, have your husband say, "Geez - did you feel that one?" and be able to say, "Nope. Not really."
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on June 01, 2006, 01:14:23 am ---The first few weeks of my daughter's life were so exhausting and overwhelming (AND transcendent, etc. of course), so exhausting, that I can't imagine what it would have been like to tackle it while recuperating from the most major body event most people ever go through. My hat's off to you.
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Yeah, nice little trick Mother Nature plays on us, ain't it? Your nether regions, as Sheyne so eloquently calls them, feel like a train wreck, your hormones are tripping the light fantastic (and if you're real lucky, ha, ha, triggering a nice little case of clinical depression), and, oh, by the way, you're fully responsible for the care and feeding of this totally helpless, totally vulnerable miniature human. And you have no practice whatsoever in doing any of it - babysitting 20 years ago doesn't count.
:o
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on June 01, 2006, 08:31:21 am ---Yeah, nice little trick Mother Nature plays on us, ain't it? Your nether regions, as Sheyne so eloquently calls them, feel like a train wreck, your hormones are tripping the light fantastic (and if you're real lucky, ha, ha, triggering a nice little case of clinical depression), and, oh, by the way, you're fully responsible for the care and feeding of this totally helpless, totally vulnerable miniature human. And you have no practice whatsoever in doing any of it - babysitting 20 years ago doesn't count.
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I have cats. Thank all the gods.
Don't feel bad Sheyne, the doctor could have been completely wrong.
Your post made me recall another actress who had a C-section despite years of being told she has 'child-bearing hips'.
Kate Winslet.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on June 01, 2006, 08:24:47 am ---Mine, too, Jenny. I say to them "I have one word: Epidural." Ed says, "Epidural - ask for it early, ask for it often." I had to wait 90 eternal minutes for my bloodwork to come back OK and the anesthesiologist to magically appear. 90 minutes in the "transitional phase." I thought I was gonna shoot right out of my skin. It felt like being hari-karied (sp?) through the back with swords. When he came in, I swear I saw a halo over his head. Nothing better than looking at that monitor spike almost off the screen, have your husband say, "Geez - did you feel that one?" and be able to say, "Nope. Not really."
--- End quote ---
Midwife to Leslie, "Shall we think about an epidural?"
Leslie, instantaneously, "I'm done thinking, yes."
Anesthesiologist magically appears in room. Epidural in place in less than 3 minutes.
There are some advantages to being a nurse and having friends who work in the hospital. ;)
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