Kate, Raquel, and WindSparrow have new tags. And may I just say that, yes, mentioning me in your post does help, heh. I'm all, hi, uh, I don't see anything in your post about...oh.

Susan roooooocks.

Back to the thesis! Okay, first I make my LJ rounds, and then back to the thesis.

Did she do it in a cheerfully matter-of-fact way?

It was a little more rueful, like: "After two births, I thought I knew it all and when I taught these classes I think I drastically understated the kind of pain you get with back labor. So it was probably a little karma coming back on me."

is there any truth to the notion that back labor's more common with an anterior placenta?

I've never heard of that before; I do know back labor is more common if the baby's face is anterior.

I've never heard of that before; I do know back labor is more common if the baby's face is anterior.

I think the info I saw indicated that there was a correlation between face position and the position of the placenta, but it was all in the vague data category.

Hopefully, Princess Ticky Box will continue to prefer facing the other way, as frustrating as that has been for the ultrasound techs.

Also hopefully, she'll move her butt up top where it belongs. (from the feel of things, she's been transverse for the last couple of days)

I am so excited that Princess TB is nearly cooked. I remember when she was a Blob To Be Named Later.

I just got off the phone with a good friend. Like Joe, her husband went to Iraq back in 2003 but he had to stay for an entire year. During that year, he was injured in an attempted assasination, although he's fine now. He has been home for the last year, but is headed back to Iraq again in a few weeks for another year.

Since he came back, he has been an entirely different person - cold, distant, mean, and almost certianly suffering from PTSD. They have a beautiful 2 year old daughter and he spends almost no time with her.

It's so sad to me and I wish there was something I could do. How do you make a relationship work when you are never togethe (and the time you are together, you are planning to be apart again). This was my biggest fear for Joe and I, but at least in our case, we have talked a lot about it. My friend's husband has no interest in either acknowledgin the problem or doing something about it. He has changed so much and my heart really aches for my friend who just wants a loving, kind companion in life.

One of the reasons they were surprised Annabel was sunny side up was that I never had back labor.

Awww....

I'm married to a pedant: [link]

Since he came back, he has been an entirely different person - cold, distant, mean, and almost certianly suffering from PTSD. They have a beautiful 2 year old daughter and he spends almost no time with her.

It's so sad to me and I wish there was something I could do. How do you make a relationship work when you are never togethe (and the time you are together, you are planning to be apart again). This was my biggest fear for Joe and I, but at least in our case, we have talked a lot about it. My friend's husband has no interest in either acknowledgin the problem or doing something about it. He has changed so much and my heart really aches for my friend who just wants a loving, kind companion in life.

That's heartbreaking stuff. I wonder if he'd listen to somebody from his own unit.

That's heartbreaking stuff. I wonder if he'd listen to somebody from his own unit.

I think he might. Except that he's in a command position currently meaning that, as far as he's concerned, any inability to deal with his own life in weakness. He has recovered physically from the almost-death experience, but I suspect he still has a lot of baggage from that.

I think the biggest factor preventing him from trying to get help is the fact that he's going back there in a few weeks for another year. While I don't like his behavior over the last year, I can see how exploring feelings and opening oneself up to that might be hard in the face of returning to the "battlefield" for a year.