prose Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Not labour... Just annoying fake, irregular contractions. Real ones would be nice... Well, actually they wouldn't be nice, but at least they would be doing something more than just annoying me...
IcePrincessKRS Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Yeah, I know how that is. Just watch, you'll wake up at 4 am in labor.
Jaime Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Can a single guy with no kids offer some advice?
homeschoolmom Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Yes, please do. I'm dying of curiousity...
p0lar_bear Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 9 2005, 09:35 AM']Yes, please do. I'm dying of curiousity... [right][snapback]716740[/snapback][/right] [/quote]
Sojourner Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 [quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Sep 9 2005, 07:35 AM']Yes, please do. I'm dying of curiousity... [right][snapback]716740[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Ditto.
prose Posted September 9, 2005 Author Posted September 9, 2005 Yes, please offer me advice.... (why do I feel something about patience coming on?? )
Thy Geekdom Come Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 It's a good sign, though! Someone's gettin' ready! : I babies...can't wait to have some of my own with my future wife someday.
Jaime Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Sorry I was doing important corporate thingies... When my first nephew was born. He was born at 2:33 AM. I lived only 6 minutes from the hospital so I rushed over. Prior to getting there, I stopped at an all night grocery store and picked up flowers, balloons and just for giggles, doughnuts. When I arrived, my nephew was getting his first meal so I stayed outside the room and sent the gifts in with the nurse. After a few minutes, they wheeled out the balogna loaf that would be my godson and I went in. The balloons were floating randomly in the corner, the flowers were literally thrown on the floor, My sister was double fisting the doughnuts into her mouth. Apparently 28 hours of labor can make someone hungry. The hospital kitchen doesn't open until 6:00 AM so if you end up having a baby in the wee hours Bring doughnuts.
prose Posted September 9, 2005 Author Posted September 9, 2005 Yeah, last time they were like "don't eat".. but then my labor went 3 days.. So I sorta had to eat... or I would've eaten my bed!! Ice chips just don't cut it!!
Jaime Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 I have another piece of advice that no one has ever ever used. I've never understood the whole "videotape" thing with birthing. When would someone sit down and watch that? After the Thanksgiving meal? Christmas morning? I think most of them just end up sitting on a shelf or in drawer. So here's my suggestion If one needs a memento of the birth ( Honestly I always thought the kid would suffice) then how about a caricature drawing? Imagine Prose appropriately covered with a sheet. Cartoon tears coming out of her eyes. Prose's husband and doctor standing next to the bed with the big caricature teeth. And a giant head with a smile coming out from under the sheet. Now see that's something you could hang in the nursery!! Everyone could enjoy that !! Yet no one seems to like that suggestion....
Sojourner Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 [quote name='hot stuff' date='Sep 9 2005, 11:37 AM']I have another piece of advice that no one has ever ever used. I've never understood the whole "videotape" thing with birthing. When would someone sit down and watch that? After the Thanksgiving meal? Christmas morning? I think most of them just end up sitting on a shelf or in drawer. So here's my suggestion If one needs a memento of the birth ( Honestly I always thought the kid would suffice) then how about a caricature drawing? Imagine Prose appropriately covered with a sheet. Cartoon tears coming out of her eyes. Prose's husband and doctor standing next to the bed with the big caricature teeth. And a giant head with a smile coming out from under the sheet. Now see that's something you could hang in the nursery!! Everyone could enjoy that !! Yet no one seems to like that suggestion.... [right][snapback]716944[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Sometimes when I go home for lunch I watch "A Baby Story" on TLC. I cry every time, it's pitiful. My housemate comes home and laughs at me. So I'd watch the video from time to time and cry. Especially when the kid gets to be a bratty teenager, just so I remember how much I love him.
homeschoolmom Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 I love it. All hospitals should dump the baby photo package and hire a caricaturist...
Nicole8223 Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 hot stuff...you always make me laugh....LOL. Maybe I'll get a caricature when I give birth.....I think that would be awesome!
Sojourner Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 [quote name='hot stuff' date='Sep 9 2005, 11:42 AM']But a caricature would make you smile!! [right][snapback]716954[/snapback][/right] [/quote] The crying is happy crying, I promise. I cry when I'm really happy about things sometimes; you know, when something is just so beautiful that it overflows your heart and comes out your tearducts? But fine, I'll have a caricaturist there. It's a fantastic idea. I'd also be open to the possibility of a video. Although regular old pics would do.
Carrie Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Video? Never Caricature? Maybe A frame containing the hair that I pulled out from the daddy's hair while in labor? Definitely!
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