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post #21 of 98
12/23/05 at 9:53pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by JanetF
"But the baby will drown!" (in a wb... Yeah like it did in utero in all that liquor?)
Bwahahahaa :

I know you meant liquid, not liquor, but that about made me pee my pants :

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post #22 of 98
12/23/05 at 9:54pm
When I was pg:
"Why do you rub your stomach like that?"
post #23 of 98
12/23/05 at 9:59pm
"but what if you like never go into labor?"
post #24 of 98
12/24/05 at 2:41am
Quote:
Originally Posted by minkajane
Don't you HAVE to push on your back?
this is like the only stupid question I've gotten (not even pregnant yet!) from my husband when I was telling him how bad the lithotomy position was:
"you mean there are other options than laying on your back?"

(My sweetie is a wonderful man, he had just never thought about pregnancy and birth yet. Breastfeeding, which he had thought about, he was/is already on board about.)
post #25 of 98
12/24/05 at 3:10am
The absolute stupidest question I ever received was from a doctor, asking me about the unassisted birth... "How did you know to push?" My response? "Uhhh.... how do you know to take a s&*$?!!!!!"
post #26 of 98
12/24/05 at 3:16am
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Originally Posted by Journey
The absolute stupidest question I ever received was from a doctor, asking me about the unassisted birth... "How did you know to push?" My response? "Uhhh.... how do you know to take a s&*$?!!!!!"
I love this! So what did he say? I'm guessing he didn't concede the point...

I probably would've said "Um, how do *you* how I should push?"
post #27 of 98
12/24/05 at 3:19am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Annikate
When I was pg:
"Why do you rub your stomach like that?"

Why DO we rub our bellies like that? I started doing that before I could even feel the baby! Now I do it because I feel like it might help keep the baby from putting his foot through my abdomen, but like I said, I started the belly rubbing even before that. Guess even preggos have stupid questions.
post #28 of 98
12/24/05 at 3:26am
Quote:
Originally Posted by tie-dyed
I love this! So what did he say? I'm guessing he didn't concede the point...

I probably would've said "Um, how do *you* how I should push?"

He looked shocked, then dropped the question real quick, and turned it into trying to belittle me for my choice to birth unassisted.
post #29 of 98
12/24/05 at 1:42pm
This isnt exactly a prengant comment but about 6 hrs after I gave birth to my first son ( now 14) my youngest brother ( then 14) came to visit me in the hospital. Logan was all fed/swaddled and sleeping peacefully. Nervously holding is first nephew my brother looked at me honestly and said -- Now how many days is it until he gets his eyes open?

We still have a good laugh about it.
post #30 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by Persephone
No, that wasn't what she was talking about... what she said was it was a shot in the thigh, and you weren't stuck the bed. No one I've asked about it has any idea what she was talking about... best guess is some kind of narcotic.
when i had dd#1 i didn't really think then to question thew ospital and when i went in there nit dilated at all but having had contractions all day they gave me something to "help me sleep" i was going to ask but didn't because the actual thought that went through my head )how naive i was) "they wouldn't give me something that would affect the baby" I got a shot in the butt. i found out the next day it was MORPHINE!!!! hello what the H E L L. when we were driving home in between nodding out i said "man if i didn't know better i'd think they gave me morphine" (a s a teenager i did this drug illegally)

i'm not going to a hospital this time if i can help it!!

i always get asked "what's it feel like when the baby moves inside you?"
it's a pretty legitimate question just one that is hard to answer.
post #31 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:22pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by LianneM
Bwahahahaa :

I know you meant liquid, not liquor, but that about made me pee my pants :

Isn't the word "liquor" correct in that context? Not pronounced "lick-er" ie whiskey gin or vodka, but rather "like-er" which is another word for amniotic fluid?

Or am I just crazy LOL
post #32 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:26pm
Yup, it's liquor as in Ly-kor that is what amniotic fluid is really called
post #33 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:30pm
The most stupid comment I ever had while being pregnant was probably a friend of ours who is a doctor - though not OB but an orthopedic surgeon.

We went to visit them when I was 30 weeks pregnant with my second - and he immidiately started feeling around on my belly. Then with a knowing expression on his face he said " Oh - the baby has dropped. Yes it had definately dropped"

I had to tell him that NO - my baby had NOT dropped. I was 30 weeks!! "
Need I say my baby didn't drop till 3 days before I went into labor - sigh... :
post #34 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:41pm
I had a friend who was told she was having a HUGE baby by the Ob palpating her belly. She was able to tell him it was her stomach he was feeling and she'd just eaten a big lunch... So he couldn't even locate a uterus. Good sign in a careprovider :roll
post #35 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:41pm
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Originally Posted by JanetF
Yup, it's liquor as in Ly-kor that is what amniotic fluid is really called
Well thanks for the education I've never heard that word.
post #36 of 98
12/26/05 at 10:51pm
When I was pregnant I said to my brother "The baby has hiccups all the time"

My brother said, "You can HEAR them?!?!"
post #37 of 98
12/26/05 at 11:13pm
I've had two people (MIL, and Aunt-in-Law) ask me (at two separate times) "So, do you have a doctor, like, on back-up or something... I mean, what if there is an emergency and you need something?" Well, DUH, then we do go to the hospital or see a doctor that has been referred by our midwife!

People seem to think that home birth means you stay there regardless of an emergency. I'm not planning for an emergency, and think all will be fine at home, but I'm tired of reassuring people that YES, I will go see a doctor if I had any serious problems at any time in the pregnancy or birth.
post #38 of 98
12/27/05 at 5:23am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ell-Bell
People seem to think that home birth means you stay there regardless of an emergency. I'm not planning for an emergency, and think all will be fine at home, but I'm tired of reassuring people that YES, I will go see a doctor if I had any serious problems at any time in the pregnancy or birth.
Ofcourse we are such a bunch of treehugging hippies we would rather see our babies die than go see a doctor in an emergency
" Oh yes we lost the baby - but we stayed at home the whole time" :
Yeah sure....
post #39 of 98
12/27/05 at 11:38am
Yes yes yes! I hear that one all the time! And because I'm known for my public stance against (read my lips, people) UNNECESSARY caesareans, I'm assumed to want everyone to have dead babies in preference to the dreaded surgery. The number of times I have to say, "No I didn't want your Aunty Mavis to die in excruciating agony." "No I don't think it's good that you and your baby would have died." Oh lordy! Is there no end to that kind of silliness.
Just once more UNNECESSARY is the key here people!
post #40 of 98
12/27/05 at 1:24pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by JanetF
Just once more UNNECESSARY is the key here people!
Well, you know Janet, there are no UNNECESSARY c-sections, because if they weren't necessary, the dr wouldn't do them! :
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