We can haz all Nvmbrs?
We're gonna time the next one for May or June so that my sister and my mom will be done with work for summer and can come help. I'd also like for them to be in the OR with me. I hope I can have 3 people.
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Spike's Bitches 36: Did I Sully Our Good Name?
[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.
Aims - Jun 15, 2007 4:08:10 am PDT #2805 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
hippocampus - Jun 15, 2007 4:08:16 am PDT #2806 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
:: passes Sparky ibuprofen through the internets ::
hippocampus - Jun 15, 2007 4:12:17 am PDT #2807 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I had a doula who was also a massage therapist, so that I could keep my back from turning into cement. she was amazing - and stayed the entire time. Including, unexpectedly, coming into the OR. So, for that magic moment when they hand baby to DH, and you're left staring at the ceiling, she came over and talked to me. That was really nice. Then she came back the next day and massaged my feet and shoulders. Got me off the nasty OR stuff really fast. Charged us all of, um - $400. For basically three days. We made a donation to her organization and I did a huge website for her later.
Aims - Jun 15, 2007 4:15:17 am PDT #2808 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
When we were planning Em's birth, Joe and I had very different ideas.
I wanted a doula and a midwife and to have a water birth.
Joe wanted the hospital and machines that go "ping".
Sometimes, I suspect he willed the c-section onto to me to show me he was right.
Sparky1 - Jun 15, 2007 4:17:46 am PDT #2809 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I have told my husband that on the slim chance I should ever be pregnant my wardrobe shall consist of t-shirts imprinted with the following instructions for the doctors and my signature: "Please administer painkillers early and often."
Aims - Jun 15, 2007 4:20:06 am PDT #2810 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Cut a hole in the back and write: "Place Drugs Here" with an arrow pointing to your spine.
It occurs that with all of the sprogging we seem to be doing around here, maybe we should have a birthing/parenting thread.
Not that I proposing it, mind you.
Hil R. - Jun 15, 2007 4:26:22 am PDT #2811 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A doctor once informed me that women lose blood every month and, since I'm a vegetarian, I'm not eating blood to replace it, and so I won't be able to have kids. (I was 15 or so at the time, and a bit too startled to counter with, "Um, India?") This was the same doctor who told me that my pain was entirely psychosomatic before he examined me.
vw bug - Jun 15, 2007 4:28:06 am PDT #2812 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Crazy doctors. I could add stories, but I'll just sit back and read for now.
Aims - Jun 15, 2007 4:28:10 am PDT #2813 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
How asinine.
Stephanie - Jun 15, 2007 4:30:39 am PDT #2814 of 10001
Trust my rage
It occurs that with all of the sprogging we seem to be doing around here, maybe we should have a birthing/parenting thread.
I have occasionally thought this. I definitely censor my parent-related issues here, mainly because I worry about boring people. I wonder if the non-parents get tired of the topic. But maybe it's just like cats or baseball.
eta: I know sometimes doctors are necessary but there are so many reasons to avoid them.