Posted on 10/07/2019 3:42:23 PM PDT by Morgana
Glad it ended well.
Awesome!
These stories make me smile. When people do things for the right reasons.
Quick! Pop the radiator cap! We MUST have BOILING WATER for some reason!!!
but once again, our language actually equates somebody catching the baby as some kind of “delivery”..the mom delivers, period.....babies have been born for eons by mothers alone, by themselves.....
I’d have been all “What’s that, dispatch? There’s a hold up in the Bronx? Krushchev’s due at Idlewild? Car 54 en route! Sorry, folks! An ambulance is en route!”
An old waitress that we chatted with for years every Sunday told how she gave birth to two children at home with a mid-wife, one at the hospital with a doctor, and “One at the bottom of the stairs by the front door all alone. Thankfully it wasn’t my first. But really similar to helping a cow give birth so not a big deal.”
“We MUST have BOILING WATER for some reason!!!
Reminds me of the “Honeymooner’s” episode where Ralph and Alice are wanting to adopt a baby. Ralph puts a big HUGE pot of boiling water on the stove.
The adoption agency person is interviewing them and looking over the house. “Oh - maam! And over here we keep a pot of boiling water - you never know when that might come in handy. Yep - always be prepared you know!”
The car interior must be a mess.....
Not a snowflake.
Nice story.
Wonder what the speeding tickets are going to cost him?
65 years ago, when I was 5, a motorcycle cop pulled us over at 1:00 in the morning as my dad was speeding to the hospital for my sister’s birth. She wasn’t yet crowning, so we got a police escort—lights, siren, speeding and all. Very exciting and memorable!
Smile? They make me tear.
The officer should have called “The Trunk Monkey”!
Rollin' down highway forty-one"
Allman Brothers
One of my ancestors in the 19th century was a midwife in a village in Europe. She wasn't the only midwife in the village but once when one of her own children was being born there was no midwife there, so her husband had to fill in. I don't know if she told him to boil water or not.
I’d have given him the ticket for speeding, and a child not secured in a baby seat. ...... been a great story for the judge .
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