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[MOXOMUMD]

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I counter attack with this...



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Gravity Falls is one of my favs.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Is Canadian rain more polite than regular rain

This was a gentle rain but it's breezy and on the cool side today.

 

[donaldtoo]

We also ran through sprinklers when we were kids. My father had the kind that would spin around in a circle. We'd run back and forth in the area, makin' all kinds of noise and having fun.

What I recall most were the big mud puddles that would result, from the combination of the sprinkler and us kids running over it on the wet grass. My brothers, in particular, loved that, as they could then fling mud at each other.

Hahaaa...!
Yes, I remember the ensuing mud!
We were pretty fancy-schmancy...
We had one that spun, and a couple that swept back and forth.
Then, a few years before we moved back to Texas, pop installed an in-ground sprinkler system.
I have no clue why he has never installed one in the 40+ years we've been back here...?

 

[donaldtoo]

James has a whole week off and it's his birthday week

What is he getting you for his birthday...?!

 

[donaldtoo]

He said thank you and best cake ever. Don't tell anybody but he still sleeps with his Perry bedding

Does he also have a coupla' pairs a' these...?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Lesson: When you are packing your bag for the hospital, pack snacks. Make sure they are easily accessible. I would have been fine if I hadn't delivered just after the dinner hour. The hospital kitchen was closed, so they couldn't make me a warm meal anymore, and by the time they got me in my room for the night, visiting hours were over, so my husband couldn't go out and bring something back for me. It was after 9pm when I was brought to my room, which I shared with 3 other women and their babies. So it wasn't like he could just hang out there outside of visiting hours. There was nothing open in the hospital to provide me with food and no one could come and bring me something from the outside...plus, all the grocery stores closed around 7 or 8...the ONLY thing that would have been open at that hour is McDonalds. I just had bad timing. But, you can prepare for that.

It really depends on the hospital where you have your baby. In ours each mother is given her own room and the baby stays with you. (There's no nursery to see all the babies.) The father is given an all hours pass and can visit whenever. I spent three nights in the hospital and my ex slept each night in the big cushioned rocker in the room. There's a small free snack area on the floor where someone can get the new moms mini cans of juice or pop and graham crackers, saltines or plain cookies like Lorna Doones.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Is Canadian rain more polite than regular rain

No, but it is more passive aggressive.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Disney store pulled out of my area years ago. I was very sad to see it go. Don't think there are many of them left around the country.

The one here in Raleigh, just completely remodeled in the past year. They have that rope drop ceremony every morning, that impressed me. The staff does seem to be snorting something though... perhaps pixie dust.

 

[donaldtoo]

Sympathy like. I even got an order to pick up at the bakery on my way in.

My mom went into labor a little early with me, and insisted my pop take her to the grocery store so she could stock up on food for him while she was in the hospital...!!!

 

[Goofyernmost]

When it comes to childbirth, the Dutch are very old-fashioned. Most women stay at home as opposed to going to a hospital. And you are only given pain meds "if you need it", which is not determined by you, as the person in pain. It's determined by the nurses and midwives and whether they think you are in that much pain or not. It's quite archaic.

All three of my daughters children were born at home with the help of a midwife. No pain killers at all. It's alright I guess, but, why put yourself through that if it isn't necessary. I don't see it as being a heroic... just a couple bricks shy of a load. It's like having a tooth pulled without Novocaine just to say you did it. I am a believer in taking advantage of modern medicine like everything else, within reason. I don't think she loves her children anymore than those that were more comfortable during delivery. Nor do I think her kids will ever even think about the fact that their Mother had them the old fashioned way. When I was born, my Mother was sleeping. She woke up about the time I started school (joke). That I can understand as being a lot over the top. But, just minimizing pain is not the same thing. Being a man, I suppose I have no real say in it and I have not expressed my opinion to my children at all (or my mother for that matter). Just seems so unnecessary.

 

[donaldtoo]

You didn't offend me at all. No worries and no need to apologize. I always think the picture of the sheep is funny. Just a bad morning here, but all is fine now.

Cool. No worries.
Sorry you had a bad morning, but, glad things got better!

And...

"We Go On"

 

[donaldtoo]

A half day on Friday, you will take....

Yep, that's how it should have been worded...!!!

 

[Songbird76]

It really depends on the hospital where you have your baby. In ours each mother is given her own room and the baby stays with you. (There's no nursery to see all the babies.) The father is given an all hours pass and can visit whenever. I spent three nights in the hospital and my ex slept each night in the big cushioned rocker in the room. There's a small free snack area on the floor where someone can get the new moms mini cans of juice or pop and graham crackers, saltines or plain cookies like Lorna Doones.

That sounds lovely...I don't think anything like that exists in the Netherlands. There was no such thing as a private room. You shared with 3 others. It was kind of funny because they always tell you that boys are generally bigger than girls...I had the only girl in the entire ward and she was also the BIGGEST baby. The others looked so tiny compared to her! And one of the babies in my room was born prematurely...so he was something like 2500 grams, and there's my 4205 gram baby girl who looked like she could eat him for breakfast. Then when DS came along, I said all along, I'm having a boy and they said probably not because I was smaller than I was with DD and boys are bigger. At least when he was born, it was 6:37 am and we were out of there at 8:37. No hospital stay required...in and out in just a couple of hours and back home.

 

[Songbird76]

My mom went into labor a little early with me, and insisted my pop take her to the grocery store so she could stock up on food for him while she was in the hospital...!!!

You must not have announced your impending arrival in the middle of the night like mine did! There would have been no grocery store open at that time of night. But my husband is a good cook, so he wouldn't have starved.

 

[donaldtoo]

There are a bunch of things I hated about being pregnant, but surprisingly the no food thing didn't make the list. I didn't really notice how hungry I was until after. I had 17 hours of labor followed by two hours of my body going into actual shock, so they wouldn't feed me. When the shock subsided it too then an hour to being me a grilled cheese sandwich, and I felt STARVING, but before that I didn't really notice being hungry.



Definitely pack snacks!! I made three mistake of packing sweet snacks. I was a gestational diabetic and they told me that it would go away after birth so I thought that meant right after birth. It turns out it took almost twenty four hours, so I couldn't eat my Oreos until the next day and had to rely on hospital food that took forever to come.

DWifey was in labor for about 15 hours with oldest DD. Only ice chips for her the whole time, and I definitely didn't eat in front of her. She was already a week late so the Doc decided to induce. They almost sent us home at one point 'cause DWifey wasn't dilating like Doc wanted her to. But, a couple hours later everything fell into place, and DD was born at 10:54p at a healthy 8lb. 8oz.

DS was a whole different story. He had to be taken via c-section very early in the pregnancy. He was born weighing only 1lb. 4oz. and spent 4.5 mo. in the NICU.

Youngest DD was also a scheduled c-section baby, but, she was born at a healthy 7lb. 13oz.

We originally planned on having 4 kiddos (DWifey and I both come from 4 sib families), but, with our 3 being only 3yrs. and 2mo. apart from oldest to youngest, and with DS having special needs, we decided we already had our hands full enough and were plenty happy with our 3...!

 

[Figgy1]

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[Figgy1]

It really depends on the hospital where you have your baby. In ours each mother is given her own room and the baby stays with you. (There's no nursery to see all the babies.) The father is given an all hours pass and can visit whenever. I spent three nights in the hospital and my ex slept each night in the big cushioned rocker in the room. There's a small free snack area on the floor where someone can get the new moms mini cans of juice or pop and graham crackers, saltines or plain cookies like Lorna Doones.

3 days 24 hours was long enough, thank you very much. After James I was packed up and ready to go waiting in the lobby for my get out of jail papers.

 

[donaldtoo]

It really depends on the hospital where you have your baby. In ours each mother is given her own room and the baby stays with you. (There's no nursery to see all the babies.) The father is given an all hours pass and can visit whenever. I spent three nights in the hospital and my ex slept each night in the big cushioned rocker in the room. There's a small free snack area on the floor where someone can get the new moms mini cans of juice or pop and graham crackers, saltines or plain cookies like Lorna Doones.

Yep, all 3 times DWifey had a private room. I could come and go as I pleased, get snacks for us, and I also slept in the recliner next to her bed.
Bringin' back memories...!

 

[Songbird76]

All three of my daughters children were born at home with the help of a midwife. No pain killers at all. It's alright I guess, but, why put yourself through that if it isn't necessary. I don't see it as being a heroic... just a couple bricks shy of a load. It's like having a tooth pulled without Novocaine just to say you did it. I am a believer in taking advantage of modern medicine like everything else, within reason. I don't think she loves her children anymore than those that were more comfortable during delivery. Nor do I think her kids will ever even think about the fact that their Mother had them the old fashioned way. When I was born, my Mother was sleeping. She woke up about the time I started school (joke). That I can understand as being a lot over the top. But, just minimizing pain is not the same thing. Being a man, I suppose I have no real say in it and I have not expressed my opinion to my children at all (or my mother for that matter). Just seems so unnecessary.

Well, over here, they believe strongly in letting nature do its work. They don't give you antibiotics because they want your immune system to do the work. I had a sinus infection and bronchitis for 4 months before they FINALLY gave me antibiotics and it went away in a week. And I have a friend here who is adamant about natural home births with no drugs because she swears it's better for the baby and she read somewhere that the use of pain meds LEADS to needing things like c-section or forceps or vacuum. She insists that it probably took so long for me BECAUSE I had an epidural. But with DD, I was at home for the first 11 hours and I didn't progress at all, even before I had an epidural. They only gave me the epidural because it was taking so long and wearing yourself out with the pain doesn't do any good either...so you can try to tough it out and then not be able to do it anyway, or you can be more comfortable. With DS, it went "too fast". Only 6 and a half hours. So they refused to give me anything for the pain. They said they didn't know how much longer it would be and pain meds might not have time to take effect since they have to monitor you for 30 minutes before administering any pain meds. I asked a few times in the course of about 3 hours, but they wouldn't give me anything. I seriously thought I was going to die. I wouldn't want to go through that again. If my baby being a bit groggy at birth is the worst thing about an epidural, I'd say that's an acceptable trade off.