You know, you could make a LOT of money with a toddler wheel, on the analogy of a hamster wheel.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Betsy HP - Apr 10, 2005 12:48:09 pm PDT #2420 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Betsy HP - Apr 10, 2005 12:48:34 pm PDT #2421 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Better still, a toddler ball like a hamster ball.
Deena - Apr 10, 2005 12:48:59 pm PDT #2422 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I had a good hospital and good birthing team with Kara. The only reason she didn't nurse is because she refused. I had a lactation consultant right away and everyone tried very hard to get her to nurse. Finally, even the lactation consultant gave up. She was just very stubborn.
Lovely pictures, vw!
Susan W. - Apr 10, 2005 12:52:48 pm PDT #2423 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
These days, at least at the hospital Susan was in (which is the same one I'll be in), they're very much against episiotomies, and rarely do them. They just let you tear instead. Episiotomies, it turns out, don't heal as well as a natural rip.
Yep, I had a forceps delivery with no episiotomy, which would've been unheard of in the not-too-distant past. And while I had a third-degree tear, it didn't come from the forceps--it was because I was so numb I couldn't feel what I was doing, so when they told me to stop pushing, I had to consciously think which muscles I was using and how to turn them off, and by then it was too late. Annabel was born on one push instead of the preferable slower way where they can help rotate the shoulders and such. But tearing is the thing I worried obsessively over that turned out to be so very, very minor. I'd read all these horror stories of tears and episiotomies healing badly, so I was expecting the worst, which didn't happen at all. I cut, I healed, no biggie.
Ginger - Apr 10, 2005 1:00:59 pm PDT #2424 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The first couple are of Bastet trying to figure out how to get to the hanging tulips.
Anyone want to lay odds on Bastet vs. tulips?
She was just very stubborn.
Why am I not surprised?
brenda m - Apr 10, 2005 1:09:37 pm PDT #2425 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
She was just very stubborn.
Well, good thing that's changed.
beth b - Apr 10, 2005 1:46:39 pm PDT #2426 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
apt looks great vw. and toto looks very happy on his throne.
I just watched 3 episodes of Wonderfalls - I have had the dvd's for awhile and finally picked up.
Scrappy - Apr 10, 2005 1:49:21 pm PDT #2427 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
How are you feeling, Beth?
Deena - Apr 10, 2005 2:37:35 pm PDT #2428 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Hee! Someday it will be called determination, and be a positive trait. Just not by me.
I haven't seen all of wonderfalls yet. Someday, I suppose.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 10, 2005 3:05:16 pm PDT #2429 of 10001
What is even happening?
That said, I am looking forward to going into labor on my own this time as I think it will feel shorter and less tiring if I get to spend part of it at home.This is how it was for me. With Ben, I was at the hospital all night. With Chris, I stayed home until about 3 hours before he was born, and was much less worn out. Of course Chris was born in the early evening as opposed to Ben's first thing in the morning birth. I wouldn't have had much rest if I stayed home for a long time with Ben, either. Julia's delivery was nearly as fast (hospital-time-wise) as Chris's, and she was induced, although all they had to do to induce her was break my water.
I had episiotomies with all three. The one I had with Julia, I wouldn't have known I had, had I not been awake for it. That's the only one of my deliveries my own OB (from a larger practice) was able to attend. He was a master. I never felt it. I never felt it healing, either. Ben? It felt like I was cut from the nape of my neck, down around and up to my collar bone, and I think I could still point to the right spot. With Chris, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as the one with Julia.
My best friend tore very, very badly to the front on her third baby, and is practically an episiotomy evangelist. My own OB wasn't big on episiotomies, and said we'd avoid one if we could. I don't know the philosophy of the other two who attended Ben and Chris's deliveries. I trusted their judgment, as they had a better eye view of the situation than I did.