I'm glad I'm in good company in the elderly parent club. I turned 38 at this last birthday, and TCG will be 48 in September.
I turn 40 next Friday, and M is 45. Advanced Maternal Age for the win!
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
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Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[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.
juliana - Jul 11, 2015 4:54:46 pm PDT #20496 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
sj - Jul 11, 2015 5:21:08 pm PDT #20497 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
juliana, has anyone referred to your pregnancy as a geriatric pregnancy? Because that's fun.
Zenkitty - Jul 11, 2015 6:50:17 pm PDT #20498 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
"Geriatric pregnancy", hell. I have a friend who had two kids after she turned 50.
juliana - Jul 11, 2015 7:38:48 pm PDT #20499 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
juliana, has anyone referred to your pregnancy as a geriatric pregnancy? Because that's fun.
No, but I know my friend in Minneapolis who was 38 when her son was born got to hear that. Kaiser Permanente is Very Serious about Not Using That Term (I asked, out of curiosity). I think the relatively higher maternal age in SF has something to do with that.
DavidS - Jul 11, 2015 8:34:20 pm PDT #20500 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think the relatively higher maternal age in SF has something to do with that.
Emmett's mom was 38 when she had him and she was the youngest mother-to-be her OB/GYN was seeing at the time.
juliana - Jul 12, 2015 4:44:27 am PDT #20501 of 30002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Emmett's mom was 38 when she had him and she was the youngest mother-to-be her OB/GYN was seeing at the time.
Data from 2010 says that the median age of mothers giving birth in SF was 33, so that sounds about right. My OB/GYN is very emphatic about my age not be anything to worry about. (Or something like that. I just got up.)
In conclusion, sj's docs should take a page from SF's OB/GYN practices.
sj - Jul 12, 2015 5:27:21 am PDT #20502 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
In conclusion, sj's docs should take a page from SF's OB/GYN practices.
It wasn't my doctor. It may have been one of the genetic counselors. I can't remember. My hospital only has a maternity ward for high risk patients, so I see a lot of older mothers, but the classes were for both branches of my hospital, so there were much younger mothers to be there. Other than us the only people that asked any question was one other couple that seemed closer to our age than the rest (or at least the husband was, the wife looked younger).
Laura - Jul 12, 2015 10:27:02 am PDT #20503 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
They certainly called mine geriatric, which I thought was ridiculous.
Being lazy today. Reading. I did make some chili and did some laundry earlier, but my pump wasn't stopping running so I asked step-dad to take a look and a pipe has a little leak. He and the guy who does plumbing stuff around here are going to the races this afternoon. So I told them to forget about it until morning. My mom's house is right next door for water. Also, good excuse to be lazy the rest of the day.
erikaj - Jul 12, 2015 11:50:28 am PDT #20504 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
I also think "incompetent cervix" my mother's condition that started this whole CP odyssey, carries more of a value judgement than is strictly necessary. It sounds like the cervix was the boss' daughter and took a lot of weekends off. Maybe "insufficient" might say the same thing without being all "macht schnell" about it. My brother tried to make me feel good yesterday by telling me "it was lucky that I have my brain." I like my brain, too, but somehow lucky doesn't really come to mind anymore. Also, it sounds like he feels lucky that he doesn't have to put up with my drooling or making sounds for no reason or whatever the Special Olympics crowd traumatized him about when he was a small child. Hard to know what to say about that.
Zenkitty - Jul 12, 2015 12:05:24 pm PDT #20505 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My mother once described to me how her OBGYN had described to her what was "wrong" with her lady parts that made childbirth so difficult for her. At the time, I was a tween-ager and even then I was skeptical. Now I know for certain that what he told her, complete with explanatory hand gestures, was utter nonsense, and he probably knew it was nonsense.
He told her that a cervix was supposed to open outward, like a church door, to let the baby out, and her cervix instead swung inward, so the baby had a hard time getting past it. He also told her that the "relaxed" uterus was supposed to fold down and lay backward, and instead hers flopped forward against her bladder, and that was why she had minor incontinence. A gynecologist once told me I had a prolapsed uterus and that was the cause of my menstrual pain, and I believed him. I don't even know what that meant, but subsequent gynecologists, and a couple ultrasounds for fibroids, have assured me that no, my girl parts are totally normal. I wonder where some gynecologists get their licenses from.