My MIL is very sweet and 82. My DH was her 2nd bonus baby that she had in her 40's in 1969. Her other 5 kids were born from the mid 40-s on.
So, I'm telling her that DH and I are going to hire a doula. We already told her we were using a midwife and that's a different story. This is how the doula conversation went:
"What's a doula?" she asks.
"It's like a professional birth coach, " says I.
"Isn't that what the midwife is for?" she says.
"No, the midwife is like the doctor," I say.
"Well than where's the doctor?" she says.
"There is no doctor," I say.
"Oh, that's right," she says, "the doctor doesn't come in until you're already knocked out."
WOW.
So, I'm telling her that DH and I are going to hire a doula. We already told her we were using a midwife and that's a different story. This is how the doula conversation went:
"What's a doula?" she asks.
"It's like a professional birth coach, " says I.
"Isn't that what the midwife is for?" she says.
"No, the midwife is like the doctor," I say.
"Well than where's the doctor?" she says.
"There is no doctor," I say.
"Oh, that's right," she says, "the doctor doesn't come in until you're already knocked out."
WOW.
That had to dry them out and had to be miserable.
: When my mom had my littlest sister in 1991 she got the full induction specialty because the 'cord was on her neck'. I was trying to ask mom about it, she said they broke her water and gave her pit an epidural and the episotomy. All this 3wks early after having 2 others at 41 and 43wks 
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: That totally cracked me up. My kids are looking at me funny, wondering why I'm laughing so hard.
She said she went into the hospital in labor and the nurses laughed when she started pushing and a foot popped out. She breastfed all of them except one for 7-9 months each, with my uncle she was told she couldn't breastfeed in the hospital because her milk had a bluish tint and was bad (we now know this is a variation of normal).
