Really?
Posted on 12/30/2010 9:24:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Have you?
No.
I have been pregnant however, and do remember late pregnancy was uncomfortable and awkward. The idea of sitting in one of those seats on a plane for hour after hour, not to mention the necessary frequent trips to the back of the plane to pee is enough to make me seriously doubt the Kenyan birth scenario.
The story putting her back on a plane to make the long flight returning to Hawaii within days of Obama's birth is to stretch credulity to the breaking point. If physical discomfort and inconvenience of such a trip weren't argument enough against it, then consider this, women in 1961 were kept in the hospital from one to two weeks following delivery. Birthers have Obama's mom giving birth in Kenya and returning to Hawaii in less than the normal hospital stay of eleven days (longer for a first-time mom) in 1961.
The story is just not credible on so many levels - this just scratches the surface.
Really!
Women stayed in 14 days when I started my own family and then it came down to 10 and now after a normal delivery, if it's in the morning, the woman will go home in the evening.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6187220.stm
When I trained (in the 1960s)nearly all the mothers stayed in for 10 days.
http://midwifemuse.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/early-days-breastfeeding/
Both of my sources are from the UK and are, I'm guessing, more relevant to practices in a British colony than statistics gathered in Brazil. (It looks like a Brazilian source - you haven't provided a link)
The second cite is an interesting read if you want to get a feel for why I think it is highly improbable that Ann grabbed her newborn, and hopped on a plane for the long flight back to Hawaii shortly after giving birth.
The opinions and experience recorded in the links I provided were not mine, and were delivered by professionals with the exception of the moms, of course.
In 1970, the average length of stay for all hospital deliveries was 4.1 days in the United States!
That's like 9 years after 1961, or are you suggesting that there were no changes between 1961 and 1970.
I'm sorry that having your child was such a traumatic experience for you. In most cases, it's not.
Having a first baby for most women I have known (are you a man?), and me too, is a big, life changing experience. Along with the physical changes, not to mention discomfort, and hormonal adjustments comes a new tiny person to care for and a host of questions and concerns. That doesn't make it traumatic, it makes it big and new and exhausting - the kind of thing women like to have their mothers around for to ask questions of and get support.
I was born long before the 1960's and my mother never spent more than four days in the hospital for any of her many children!
I'm sure you're telling the truth. That doesn't mean your mother would have been willing or able to get on a plane a short time after giving birth to her first child for a trip half way around the world.
The point to noting hospital stays in the '60s is to point out that there is a bit more to the birth of a first child than birthers seem to think.
Really?
How old was the baby? Where did she go?
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