Thank you. 
Grit your teeth and pop those little tax deductions out with a smile on your face, clean up your own mess and then clear the top field.
Not gonna! 
Posted on 10/27/2006 11:31:40 AM PDT by gobucks
you know, if you have a healthy baby on the other end, that is reward enough. i personally thought the women screaming their guts out in natural childbirth were nuts. you do not get a GIRLSCOUT badge or other award for having done it without drugs.
hmmm. ok, I was planning of course to say to her, hey, please read this.... but I will see if she is interested in posting something.
Mrs GB has NEVER liked my time spent in Freeperville .... she claims it cheats her of time I should be spending on her.
So, why the name Motormouth? (As if I didn't know!)
Home births are all well and good until something goes tragically wrong. A pediatrician at our hospital in the 80s was completely devoted to the "natural" idea, home birth, etc. Unfortunately, the cord was around the baby's neck and the baby was born anoxic, which later was shown to have caused cerebral palsy. Odds are high they could have saved the baby's handicap with access to hospital equipment.
Thanks to Army hospitals not calling in anesthesia for "routine deliveries," I had both of mine with about 10 mL of Demerol (they usually give you a starting dose of 50 after surgeries - so during childbirth the 10 mL is diddlysquat). My husband was extremely supportive. Nonetheless, I would have enjoyed the experience much more without the pain.
A watermelon is a bit large, but I don't think any of us real men would have a problem with, let's say, a grapefruit.
The homework we did regarding the actual factors that lead up to csections astounded us...
The fact that epidurals increase the CSECTION rate is a fact little known. Thanks!
I could have been used for a Scared Straight program for teens. I doubt a girl in the room would uncross her legs until she was 40 after being with me during my first or third labors especially. :-)
By the way, if you have bathroom issues that last for 22 hours or so, I'd recommend Metamucil.
Hello fellow cult follower! LOL
I envy you, I wanted a homebirth but Mr. Voice chickened out. When I delivered the last one they had the nurses coming in and out during the labor and delivery to observe, only one had assisted in a natural delivery before!
Midwife or doctor?
I understand your POV.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Grit your teeth and pop those little tax deductions out with a smile on your face, clean up your own mess and then clear the top field.
Not gonna!
Of course, if me and the mrs were anti doctor and anti hospital we would have home birthed without a qualm...but my wife's sister had a few choice words with me regarding the subject and I realized in the low probability that if a problem actually occured, I would need some help.
So, natural childbirth in the hospital is fine too...and of course, csections are a consistent life saver.
But again, my point is non about the legitimate use of medicine ... it is the illegimate reliance on pallatives by weak guys which promote weak families ... not only in the areas of childbirth, but most especially, schooling kids and loving wives, that makes for what I view as the roots of the invitations we extend to our enemies.
We live, too many of us, like we are being watched by a TV audience....and it is a lifestyle that neuters the soul of men, women, and their children.
I wish your great post was post number 3or 4!! Thanks!
It is ok ... maybe my single experience will influence the 'plans' of a lot guys out there...
After I had my first really bad kidney stone, someone told me that this is the closest a man could get to the pain of childbirth.
My mother had died a few years earlier, and I really hated that I didn't know that before then. I did appreciate what a good mother she was, but I hadn't had the object lesson on the pain she had to go through to bring me into the world.
I can't thank my mother, but I do salute you.
what a thought ... and I had not thought of it, but am very glad you did....thank you!!
Pick any subject.....
Answer?
The same.
LOL--when you arrive at the ER with kidney stones, I want to hear about how natural and "joyful" morphine suddenly becomes...
Eh, see post #60. (LOL)
LOL!
Thank God I never had one and was blessed with trivial issues personally by only having my chest opened up, my heart removed, being placed on a bypass machine for sustenance, placed on a bed of ice to bring my body temp down to a comfortable 65 degree's body temperature and having cavities placed in my body below my chest on each side and both sides of my groin cut open for parts needed for the bypass interconnect, being zapped twice by a defibrillator to be brought back I can only imagine (thank God) the horrors of child birth or a kidney stone affliction.
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