The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Figgy1]

I hope you had a great time, at the pool!

Thank you I did. I like going there when school is in session because it's so nice and quiet

 

[MinnieM123]

I waited too long for an epidural with my DS and he was 9#. Labor went very fast but he got stuck at the very end because of his big honk'n head. They told me later the winner of the largest head in the nursery. Anyhoo, his heartrate started to drop and she, my OB decided it was salad spoon time. No epidural, no knocking me out only novocaine in the area of the incision that trust me did nothing in the 60 seconds before she told me don't even consider moving what so ever (and I did not) and she yanked that kid right out. He had already broken my tailbone. That boy caused lots of damage down there. 5 freak'n days in the hospital and only released cause I said I was leaving. A reason my kids are 5 years apart, surprised I ever decided to have a 2nd child. She was 7 1/2# and average sized head. I could have walked out of the hospital that night but she went to the PIC Unit as she decided to inhale fluids she should not have. Guess it is always something.

Wow. That's intense about your son!!

 

[MinnieM123]

In other news ... i feel i'm being watched
http://guernseypress.com/news/2016/...ks-indicates-a-sustainable-ferret-population/

They're "on" to you, Mr. Ferret!!!

 

[MinnieM123]

Well it depends on the pillows too.
The latest trend seem to be 4 very short and stubby pillows.. Not a fan.
Not to mention most pillows I've seen at most hotels, are the feathery "put your head in, sink like it was just air". Which I dont like. I prefer semi firm ones XD

Hee, hee . . . reading your post, and @Gabe1 's about pillows (and my own preferences about pillows--I like soft), it's like we're a bunch of pillow divas here! (It's a little bit similar to the story about the Princess and the Pea. )

 

[MinnieM123]

Yep, no doubt we were a bit stupid. But, when it came to scoping the place out and making sure all our jumping/dive zones (that's part of what the snorkeling was for) were clear, we were very careful. No one wants themselves or a friend to not surface. We kept pretty close track of each other. Yep, still stupid stuff...
Off the top of my head, the two main stones that are quarried in Texas are limstone and granite. Mostly pink granite. Our state Capitol is built of it...!

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And y'all remember Enchanted Rock...!

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Never thought I'd say that stone, in general, was "pretty" -- but have to say that the pink granite on that state Capitol building is really beautiful. Actually, the whole design of that building is very impressive. I also like the statue that sits in front of it.

 

[Songbird76]

My dh did! I couldn't believe it!! Thank you! I wish you could have been here. We had too much cake for days

Yum! Maybe it's a good thing I wasn't there. A picture of cake doesn't add calories to my diet.
I make my kids' birthday cakes, too, though my daughter does not seem to be a fan o regular birthday cake. She prefers cheesecake. Does your husband always do the cakes? It can be a lot of fun.

 

[Songbird76]

That, and look who he's married to: someone who just wants the attention for the sake of having the attention. What better way to get attention than to use TS to do that.

Vocally she's not fantastic, but her songs are amazing. She completely deserves the fame from that alone. Shake It Off is also always good for a pick-me-up.

I really have a soft spot for shake it off. My husband had the kids recreate the video for me for my birthday a couple of years ago. It was hilarious. There might not be much that's funnier than my DS dancing.

 

[littleroo]

Yum! Maybe it's a good thing I wasn't there. A picture of cake doesn't add calories to my diet.
I make my kids' birthday cakes, too, though my daughter does not seem to be a fan o regular birthday cake. She prefers cheesecake. Does your husband always do the cakes? It can be a lot of fun.

No but he is pretty artsy. We is always designing something. He is very creative and i am the extreme opposite. Now if only he would pick up the toilet bowl cleaner...I am with your daughter. I love cheesecake!

 

[Songbird76]

My mother said she was zonked out with drugs with all 3 of us boys, but, I think she had an epidural when she had my 12-year-younger sis.
Our oldests birth was induced, because she was already a week late.
DWifey and I took a Lamaze class in the run-up to her birth, but, after about the 6th hour of hard labor, she wanted the pain meds. I can attest she REALLY wanted the meds, as with every contraction (so handily tracked on the fetal monitor) she was getting closer and closer to crushing all the bones in my left hand (fortunately, I'm right-handed ).
Plus, it was a while before the Doc got there to approve the epidural, 'cause he was supposedly doing an emergency bladder surgery.
About an hour later, Doc finally got there and they sent me packin' while the anesthesiologist did his thing. When they let me back in the room she was sitting up comfortably eating some ice chips.
At one point, they were talking about sending us home because she wasn't dilated enough...!
DWifey and I talked, we decided to hold off a little longer. Sure enough about a half hour later the dilation progressed more quickly. Although we had planned to do the whole experience in the LDR, eventually the Doc realized both mom and baby were gettin' tired, and decided to head to an OR and use the "Salad Spoons", as he said.
Fortunately, she was out in seconds, and a perfectly healthy 8lb. 8oz. Little girl...!!!
The forceps only left a small bruise on her right cheek.
Most of y'all know DS had to be taken at 1lb. 4oz. to have any chance of survival, so that was an automatic cesarean birth.
We had planned VBAC for youngest DDs birth, but, Doc vetoed. After a bleeding scare early in the pregnancy, and the potential that she might be miscarried, all settled down for the rest of the pregnancy and youngest DD was born completely healthy at 7lb. 13oz.
Yep, life's a hoot-and-a-half...!!!!!

Yikes...I had 20 hours with DD. I had had a nagging ache in my stomach all evening, but not real contractions. Once I started having twinges pretty regularly, we started timing. So we called, they came, I was only 3 cm. Then they came back a few hours later...still 3 cm. And again a few hours later. After about 10 hours, they let me go to the hospital because I was begging for an epidural, but then I had to wait for the anesthesiologist because it was too early in the morning and he wasn't there yet. I got the epidural and I had about 2 hours of bliss in which I felt nothing, so I took a quick nap, and then they came back with a vengeance. But after 17 hours, I hadn't dilated past a 3 even though my contractions were pretty much right on top of eachother. They gave me pitocin and came back an hour later and I was suddenly at a 9. It took an hour of pushing to get her out...she was 9 lb 4 oz.
With DS, it was something like 6.5 hours. They tell you to call when the contractions are about 3-4 minutes apart, which was at about the 3rd contraction for me. We called, they came and I was at a 3. I thought...here we go again. They sent me straight to the hospital this time, and by the time we got there, I was at a 6. They wouldn't give me any pain meds because it was going so fast that they didn't have time to monitor his heart rate and such...they have to monitor for at least half an hour before giving you anything. My contractions were right on top of each other so I was getting no rest between them, but only about a 3rd of them were doing what they are supposed to do. They put me on my side and DS's monitor went crazy...he was in distress. So they put me back on my back, gave me pitocin and I don't know if they were even done putting it in my IV when they let me push, and it took 4 minutes. He was 10 days late, but once he decided to enter the world, he sure didn't take his time about it. He had the cord wrapped around his neck, though and he was blue. In all his hospital photos, he still had blue hands. His face turned pink within about 10 minutes, but his little hands looked like smurf hands for at least an hour.

 

[Songbird76]

Still no power. It's been 4 1/2 hours apparently. According to the power company's website, ours is the only street affected, and they are investigating and have no timeline for restoring power. Oh, and because we are on a well, no power also means no water.

Parents are home, so I'm going to sleep. Hopefully it'll come back overnight.

Also, the catis greatly confused by all of this. She won't settle down enough to be cuddled. She's laying on the end of my bed looking very alert.

Yikes! I remember once in college when they were doing construction and hit a power line and the power was out for like 15 hours, but we at least still had water. If it's not back up in the morning, can you go stay with a friend or something until they get it fixed? If it was a school break, I'd say you have a great excuse to go to Disney!

 

[Songbird76]

Sorry. The episode of Friends that is on is about power outage.

I'm stuck in an ATM vestibule with Jill Goodacre!?

 

[Songbird76]

I waited too long for an epidural with my DS and he was 9#. Labor went very fast but he got stuck at the very end because of his big honk'n head. They told me later the winner of the largest head in the nursery. Anyhoo, his heartrate started to drop and she, my OB decided it was salad spoon time. No epidural, no knocking me out only novocaine in the area of the incision that trust me did nothing in the 60 seconds before she told me don't even consider moving what so ever (and I did not) and she yanked that kid right out. He had already broken my tailbone. That boy caused lots of damage down there. 5 freak'n days in the hospital and only released cause I said I was leaving. A reason my kids are 5 years apart, surprised I ever decided to have a 2nd child. She was 7 1/2# and average sized head. I could have walked out of the hospital that night but she went to the PIC Unit as she decided to inhale fluids she should not have. Guess it is always something.

Well, mine didn't break anything on me, thank goodness, but my DD was definitely the biggest baby in the nursery. She was also the only girl. She had to stay overnight because she was born in the early evening when all the doctors had already gone home for the day and they needed to give her a diabetes test because she was so big, so she had to stay over night, and I wasn't going anywhere without her, plus I was EXHAUSTED and couldn't have gotten very far from bed, and I needed to be there to feed her anyway. So we stayed the night in the hospital. The woman next to me in the room had a premature baby boy, so he was TINY. DD could have eaten him for breakfast. She was more than twice his size. And she had such a big head we had to buy clothes a size bigger than normal just to get them over her head. I am soooo thankful that mine were both healthy and didn't have to stay long, though. With DS, once he wasn't blue anymore, they let us go....we were out of there about an hour and a half to 2 hours after he was born and I was in WAY better condition than I had been with DD. DS was only 8.5 pounds though, and it was less than a 3rd of labor time. It makes a HUGE difference.

 

[Songbird76]

On our flight coming and going was a medium sized service dog. Odd considering we left and came back on a weekday, most don't travel that way to MCO. The Pup had a larger push carrier, netted, similar to one pulled behind a bicycle for children but with a push bar like a grocery cart. I was curious to the disability because the woman was very stable both emotionally and physically. I wondered if the dog that was well trained was a seizure or diabetes type service pup. The carrier went under the plane during the flight and the pup laid peacefully in the bulkhead row.

We only saw her once during our trip at Disney Springs and the Pup was wearing a Minnie Mouse ears hat. The Pup seemed to less than amused. The woman welcomed the interaction with her and the Pup. She was travelling alone. With my love of Pups I really was curious as to what service she performed but would never intrude and ask. We did also see 3 service dogs in training in the parks. I so wanted to play with the retrievers. (I so miss Walter) The local University there has students training service Pups and what better place to train Puppies to be in social environments that WDW. The one Golden Retriever about 5 months old was having Puppy issues, it wanted to play. My DD university also trained service Pups. It was fun to see them evolve.

It could also have been a PTSD dog. My uncle had PTSD from WWII and was usually fine, but every once in a while he would get flashbacks. But you'd never know to just look at him that he had any sort of illness. This was before real service dogs for PTSD, but his doctor did recommend having a dog because they are calming and having something to take care of can also be a good distraction. I never knew him NOT to have a dog.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

On our flight coming and going was a medium sized service dog. Odd considering we left and came back on a weekday, most don't travel that way to MCO. The Pup had a larger push carrier, netted, similar to one pulled behind a bicycle for children but with a push bar like a grocery cart. I was curious to the disability because the woman was very stable both emotionally and physically. I wondered if the dog that was well trained was a seizure or diabetes type service pup. The carrier went under the plane during the flight and the pup laid peacefully in the bulkhead row.

We only saw her once during our trip at Disney Springs and the Pup was wearing a Minnie Mouse ears hat. The Pup seemed to less than amused. The woman welcomed the interaction with her and the Pup. She was travelling alone. With my love of Pups I really was curious as to what service she performed but would never intrude and ask. We did also see 3 service dogs in training in the parks. I so wanted to play with the retrievers. (I so miss Walter) The local University there has students training service Pups and what better place to train Puppies to be in social environments that WDW. The one Golden Retriever about 5 months old was having Puppy issues, it wanted to play. My DD university also trained service Pups. It was fun to see them evolve.

We met a family in WDW that had three service dogs. There were two asthma alert dogs, an older one training a younger one. I think the other one was for kidney problems, but I don't remember for sure.

The family kept them at the resort during the day and went to the parks at night with the dogs so they wouldn't overheat. The dogs were fine to be petted, although one of the asthma alert dogs did npt want to be petted because he didn't want to not pay attention to his human.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

1 day until Fall.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

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1 day until Fall.

Best one yet

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yikes! I remember once in college when they were doing construction and hit a power line and the power was out for like 15 hours, but we at least still had water. If it's not back up in the morning, can you go stay with a friend or something until they get it fixed? If it was a school break, I'd say you have a great excuse to go to Disney!

If the power had stayed out, I probably would have gone to stay with a friend at school.

But thankfully, it came back on. Woke me up when it did at 3 am, but it's back. They had to dig up something, so there were still workers, but idc as long as I can actually, ya know, shower.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I waited too long for an epidural with my DS and he was 9#. Labor went very fast but he got stuck at the very end because of his big honk'n head. They told me later the winner of the largest head in the nursery. Anyhoo, his heartrate started to drop and she, my OB decided it was salad spoon time. No epidural, no knocking me out only novocaine in the area of the incision that trust me did nothing in the 60 seconds before she told me don't even consider moving what so ever (and I did not) and she yanked that kid right out. He had already broken my tailbone. That boy caused lots of damage down there. 5 freak'n days in the hospital and only released cause I said I was leaving. A reason my kids are 5 years apart, surprised I ever decided to have a 2nd child. She was 7 1/2# and average sized head. I could have walked out of the hospital that night but she went to the PIC Unit as she decided to inhale fluids she should not have. Guess it is always something.

You should have known that the second would be easier since the first one did the job of blazing a wide trail. You should thank him for making the other easier. Boys get so little credit for doing good things. How's that saying go... You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

 

[betty rose]

Well it depends on the pillows too.
The latest trend seem to be 4 very short and stubby pillows.. Not a fan.
Not to mention most pillows I've seen at most hotels, are the feathery "put your head in, sink like it was just air". Which I dont like. I prefer semi firm ones XD

I'm a side sleeper due to allergies, so I like a thin pillow. I love bringing a travel pillow with me. I never bring it back home, though.

 

[betty rose]

Yep, no doubt we were a bit stupid. But, when it came to scoping the place out and making sure all our jumping/dive zones (that's part of what the snorkeling was for) were clear, we were very careful. No one wants themselves or a friend to not surface. We kept pretty close track of each other. Yep, still stupid stuff...
Off the top of my head, the two main stones that are quarried in Texas are limstone and granite. Mostly pink granite. Our state Capitol is built of it...!

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And y'all remember Enchanted Rock...!

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Nice pictures, I love your state Capitol building.