it's much more like hard physical exercise - like running a marathon - than like pain.
Which is why the term is "labor".
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Beverly - Aug 24, 2010 4:52:45 pm PDT #29919 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2010 4:57:23 pm PDT #29920 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah. I don't want to think about how much medication I'd need to dull childbirth. Will never know.
She also had the baby crawling up the bed when he was one and a half hour old
The midwife gets credit for that?
flea - Aug 24, 2010 5:00:51 pm PDT #29921 of 30000
information libertarian
Um, I feel like I should add, if I'd been in pain, I'd have taken Tylenol, or stronger stuff if necessary. I don't have an aversion to pain meds. I just wasn't in pain.
Trudy Booth - Aug 24, 2010 5:13:06 pm PDT #29922 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I don't think I'd be upset about pooping. These are nurses and doctors, they chat about grosser things over lunch.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2010 5:37:03 pm PDT #29923 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I find poop to be soothingly universal. A great equalizer. Like the biggest jerkwad or asshat you run into during your day? Given the right circumstances, poop can flow uncontrollably out of his bottom, just like everybody else. We're all full of gross fluids and goop.
Jessica - Aug 24, 2010 5:38:00 pm PDT #29924 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The midwife gets credit for that?
Yeah, that's just a thing babies do. Most newborns these days are swaddled as soon as they're born, but if you just leave them tummy-to-tummy with the mom they'll work their way up to a breast. It's very cool.
The misleading thing about the "OMG SO MUCH BLOOD" reaction is that delivering amniotic fluid and uterine lining is just about the least painful part of the whole process. I mean, it's liquid.
Hil R. - Aug 24, 2010 5:43:20 pm PDT #29925 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I went to sleep for a few hours, and then woke up, and now can't get to sleep again because my ankle is hurting too much. I need to figure out if there's a way that I can sit down more when I'm teaching, but I don't think there is, at least not on days when I'm mostly lecturing.
Steph L. - Aug 24, 2010 5:47:53 pm PDT #29926 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
covered with - note Steph - *blueberry* yogurt
Buh? TV wouldn't lie to me!!!
We're all full of gross fluids and goop.
And yogurt!
Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2010 5:49:18 pm PDT #29927 of 30000
brillig
Latest idiocy from Utah re: childbirth--because you know wimmensfolk can't manage it properly without rulings from the legislature:
If you're on Medicare, epidurals and c-sections should not be covered. Because there's no real need for them and it's only lazy layabouts who want such things.
No link, but any casual google would find it. The c-section may restricted to what's considered elective, but I'm not sure how many of those there are. Hubby points out that 80% of the babies in this state are born under Medicare, and there is a suspicion that this is an effort at birth control.
javachik - Aug 24, 2010 6:07:12 pm PDT #29928 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I am not sure your husband's numbers are accurate. Source?