The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

Watching the Elvis all star tribute on NBC, pretty freaking good.

 

[drumstick diva]

I had one c-section, I can't believe women would want a 2nd. or 3rd. Are the next incisions made at the former site. Or does each surgeon like to cut into new territory?

PS sure glad I wasn't watching

 

[Beer can]

Al i need more information on this car birth thing. Been thinking about it all day.

Well... we have 5 remember.

Kid one was hospital. . And we didn't like the treatment we got, so decided we wanted something different with 2.

So for 2 we decided to try a midwife birthing center that is close to a hospital... we thought best of all worlds. It is however a 1.5 to 2 hour drive from our house. First kid though was almost 24 hours....so sounded ok.

So we had kid 2 at the birthing center that is 2 hours away. Worked great.... and the birth was 10 hours or some such.

We thought awesome... kid 2 worked well, we liked the birthing center, will do the same for kid 3.

Ha.

Did you know that each one comes faster?

Well.. we knew that too... but we thought 24 hours, 10 hours, maybe kid 3 will be 5 hours.. still plenty of time.



Kid 3 was maybe 30 minutes. 30 MINUTES. Can't get much of anywhere in 30 minutes.

We were driving down the highway at breakneck speed.... when the kid crowned. By the time the car squealed to a stop at the very next driveway the head was out. Sheesh. Fast, best birth ever.. except the car had carpeted flooring.... don't recommend that.

Anyway, kid popped out as soon as the pajama pants holding the kid in were removed... kid was put on mom's chest and covered in towels (October...so cold) and tada, we looked up and saw that we had just given birth...at the dump.

No joke.

Though technically it is the "Solid Waste Transfer Site"

Anyway, kid pinked up and started breathing pretty fast, mom had torn a bit but no bad bleeding. ... good birth... except for the car... the car....

So kid 4, we decided anything was safer than a car, so we picked home birth... took kid 4 over seven hours, HOURS to come out!

Then kid 5 was 2 weeks early and placenta abrupta, so emergeny C.



Just can't plan these things.

Had a milk truck driver tell me once that he had never seen any of his kids get delivered, waited in the waiting room, but had to deliver one himself in a snow storm didn't make it to the hospital.
DW had all ours pretty quick but never had her water break until the last one, just leaking, pretty funny. She was about in tears embarrassed soaking wet shoes and feet walking into the hospital.
I watched all of ours come into the world naturally no c section , pretty disgusting if you ask me, I'd have rather never saw it but had no choice, unreal crazy devastating trauma for me... Marines ain't got nothing compared to that ... like watching 'Aliens' up close ... I'd rather gut a deer any day than see that again..

 

[drumstick diva]

Went to the hospital. They checked me over and sent me right back home. Said not to come in till my water broke. As soon as I walked into house, my water broke. I thought that was that.

I didn't know I would flood the back seat of car, or dampen the hospital elevator en route to 5th. floor, or final flood stepping out of elevator. At times like this I was beyond embarassment - figured they must have seen this act before. Hopefully no witnesses would come forward at some later date.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I never saw mine born, I had my eyes shut while pushing!

 

[Beer can]

I miss babies though, our youngest is six turning seven in July. our oldest just turned 20 on the 16th this month (and not interested in having kids yet), next is 15. I don't like the thought of being a grandpa, but DW says it's the only chance I have of holding a wee little baby again.

 

[drumstick diva]

Well I wouldn't want to be a "grandpa" either Beer Can but, would love to be a grandma.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Well I wouldn't want to be a "grandpa" either Beer Can but, would love to be a grandma.

I love being Grandma. Spoil them and send them home!
My 5th grandchild is due late April!

 

[pennyJo1960]

think may turn the boob tube back on see about the Elvis thing

 

[drumstick diva]

Think I've got a lot of catching up to do on BYC. Too much shopping today and not finding what I needed.