Oh, and easy-delivery~ma for your SiL, Vortex!
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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Cashmere - Jul 06, 2009 8:28:34 am PDT #15367 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
beth b - Jul 06, 2009 8:30:12 am PDT #15368 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
where we lived in ct the birthing center was across the street from the er. It worked well for a lot of people.
Aims - Jul 06, 2009 8:30:53 am PDT #15369 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The wheres whens and hows of giving birth is as personal decision as the wheres whens and hows of making the baby in the first place.
Also, both are sometimes taped for later viewing!
Glamcookie - Jul 06, 2009 8:35:08 am PDT #15370 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I really wanted to try a natural water birth, but my myomectomy last December has ensured that I'm looking at a c-section. Ah well.
I got icky results from my first trimester screening and am now bummed out. I've heard many many people have that happen and baby is just fine, but it is still waking me at night worrying about whether I'll actually get to a baby come December. Amnio is scheduled for 7/15.
-t - Jul 06, 2009 8:35:19 am PDT #15371 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
My sister tried to have her first baby at home but had to go into the hospital, midwife's orders, and the emergency birth experience was pretty much the opposite of what she wanted, so second birth was planned to happen in a more medical setting than home, though I think she still ended up with not quite what she planned, somehow. And then she decided that if they want more kids they'll adopt, no more birthing for her.
But both kids got born just fine and are growing up to be lovely people.
-t - Jul 06, 2009 8:36:42 am PDT #15372 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
{{Glamcookie}}
amych - Jul 06, 2009 8:37:18 am PDT #15373 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
{{{{Glam}}}} Sleep~ma between now and the 15th.
beekaytee - Jul 06, 2009 8:37:55 am PDT #15374 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
The mom at my birth did both. She spent a couple of hours in the hot tub after her water broke...contrary to the midwife's suggestion. (I wish I could adequately describe the expression on her face when the midwife first said no to that. Suffice it to say we all backed away quickly and quietly. The hair on my arms stands up 4 years later, every time I recollect it. Eeck.)
At the point just before hard labor, we walked her, or rather, half-carried her upstairs to the bedroom.
She sat on the toilet for a few minutes and almost immediately went into the fear place. We lifted her the 7 or so feet to the bed, she fell over on her left side and SWOOSH, the baby came gliding out. The midwife deftly loosened the cord, which was wrapped twice around the baby's neck, with two fingers and we had a new life in the house.
The couple did not know about the cord until much later when they looked at the photos.
From beginning to end, it was an amazing experience.
sj - Jul 06, 2009 8:38:30 am PDT #15375 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{{{GC}}}} All sorts of calm~ma headed your way, and ~ma for good results on the 15th.
Barb - Jul 06, 2009 8:42:40 am PDT #15376 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
{{{GC}}}
All good thoughts and ~ma for the best outcome on the 15th.