Posted on 07/30/2008 6:23:52 AM PDT by Coffee200am
Congressman Billybob
Ninth in the ten-part series, "The Owner's Manual (Part 9) -- The Bill of Rights"
“Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.” - Mike Harding
“My wife is due in 2 weeks and loves Gordon.
Maybe if I show her this article she’ll let me off the hook”
“DANGER, DANGER WILL ROBINSON.”
Jonathon Swift...A Satire...IIRC - He suggested that with the famine going on...folks should eat the “bastard” babies.
omg
All babies look like Winston Churchill anyway.
Not quite the same, but while I sat next to my wife during her c-sections, I did NOT watch the procedure. I just didn’t think I could handle seeing parts of her sitting around outside.
Are you kidding me? They are the DRUDGE REPORT of Calcutta! /sarc
You posted: Who is Gordon Ramsey? Is he that angry, screaming chef on TV? If so, his attitude doesn’t surprise me. The guy’s an egomaniac, it’s all about him.
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As I am watching his shows I sometimes feel like you do, when he berates these people and treats them shabbily (does that sound British?). Then I think, “Hey, these folks signed up for this. They decided to compete in Hell’s Kitchen, or invited this jerk to come and critique their restaurants. He is a pain, but it turns out that he is usually right, also (at least on the shows that make it on TV). I wouldn’t want to hang out with the guy, but if his wife does, who am I to say anything about it.
For the record, I was in the room when our twin boy/girl were born, and wouldn’t have been anywhere else. In our case it was a c-section, so the “ninny” was spared, but there were enough other indignities in the whole process (we went through infertility testing of ALL sorts) that a weak sex life might not have survived it. (Point of clarification: our sex life is strong, although not sufficiently frequent, at least from my perspective, but I suspect I am not the only one in here to have that point of view.)
It augmented the bonding with them and with my wife. In fact, I held each of them before my wife did, which may have been a mistake, but I didn't think about it at the time (she later pointed this out to me).
Everyone's different (though paradoxically we're all alike), and I have no criticism for those whose opinions about this are different from my own--but it seems to me that to consider childbirth as icky is kinda like considering sex to be icky (apparently some people do) (which is beyond my comprehension) (I'm just glad I don't) (Do I love it!).
Far from dimishing sexual excitement for me--this experience enhanced it! It intensified the mystery and increased the wonder of it all.
Similarly the changes in my wife due to giving birth to my children have made her even more exciting and wonderful to me.
In fact, the older I get the better sex gets!
But this is just me. I like to take life with my eyes open.
Truth is far more awesome and wonderful than illusion!
Thanks.
I thought mom wasn’t giving dad enough space so I made him grab a leg :D He was terrified but I’m sure that was due more to inexperience.
indistinguishable really.
Actually, isn't that a still from one of the Alien movies?
P.S. I don’t even know who Gordon Ramsey is. ~S
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