Comments on: Ten things they don’t warn you about before you get pregnant… #4 http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/ "We're all naked underneath" Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Fat Sparrow http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5986 Fat Sparrow Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:44:18 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5986 Kate, they told me that, too, and also "in case we have to do a C-section, anesthetic, yada yada yada," but personally I think they just like to lord it over people. Besides, I know my own tolerances, and no longer being a goth teenager I am not gonna boke up perfectly good chow. With the first sprog I didn't get to eat for 36 hours and so all the pictures right after are of everyone holding the Fledgling Sparrow while I shove food down my gob. The second time, my family wised up and brought me in food, they have pictures of me sneakily eating while another family member stood guard to keep the nurses out. I may have been an utter bitch but I didn't boke, ha! Kate, they told me that, too, and also “in case we have to do a C-section, anesthetic, yada yada yada,” but personally I think they just like to lord it over people.

Besides, I know my own tolerances, and no longer being a goth teenager I am not gonna boke up perfectly good chow. With the first sprog I didn’t get to eat for 36 hours and so all the pictures right after are of everyone holding the Fledgling Sparrow while I shove food down my gob. The second time, my family wised up and brought me in food, they have pictures of me sneakily eating while another family member stood guard to keep the nurses out. I may have been an utter bitch but I didn’t boke, ha!

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5985 K8 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:17:37 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5985 @ fat sparrow; They wouldn't let me eat either! I guess they don't like people spewing on their seizmographs... @ fat sparrow; They wouldn’t let me eat either! I guess they don’t like people spewing on their seizmographs…

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5984 K8 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:16:11 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5984 Annie; But don't you love the release of passing out?! The only time that happened to me was when they gave me the wrong injection in a Maternity hospital once. Whatever they put in there by mistake stung like a hundred demons so I fainted and freaked them out. I probably shouldn't have said that though, hey. Annie; But don’t you love the release of passing out?! The only time that happened to me was when they gave me the wrong injection in a Maternity hospital once. Whatever they put in there by mistake stung like a hundred demons so I fainted and freaked them out.

I probably shouldn’t have said that though, hey.

]]> By: Annie http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5970 Annie Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:47:46 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5970 Oh sweet Jebus, I'm afraid, so very afraid. When - or if - my time comes to have a babby, I don't know how I'll cope. When I broke my arm (albeit fairly badly, with crushed nerves and all of that horrible stuff) I kept passing out from the pain and I still wince at the thought of it. I'm a giant wuss. One of my work colleagues once described labour to me by gesturing towards a particularly pointy table and saying - " I just gave birth to that". Ouch. Oh sweet Jebus, I’m afraid, so very afraid.

When – or if – my time comes to have a babby, I don’t know how I’ll cope. When I broke my arm (albeit fairly badly, with crushed nerves and all of that horrible stuff) I kept passing out from the pain and I still wince at the thought of it. I’m a giant wuss.

One of my work colleagues once described labour to me by gesturing towards a particularly pointy table and saying – ” I just gave birth to that”. Ouch.

]]> By: Fat Sparrow http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5966 Fat Sparrow Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:04:22 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5966 It was a County hospital. Half the people the treat are attached to the bed with handcuffs. Maybe they thought I ate my armed guard; I did put out some rather dire threats when no one would let me eat while in labor. It was a County hospital. Half the people the treat are attached to the bed with handcuffs. Maybe they thought I ate my armed guard; I did put out some rather dire threats when no one would let me eat while in labor.

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5963 K8 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:16:50 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5963 Thanks for sticking a comment in, Jo - there just aren't enough positive stories out there... not that being prepared for the bad isn't useful, but being scared of it makes it a scary experience. It just doesn't have to be that way! (Must remember to research birthing balls...) Vicky; I have lazy chisellers too - I wouldn't blame you or them, it's a scary (and breezy!) world outside that womb. The tearing (ouch) can be minimized... rubbing Vitamin E oil into that spot for a few weeks before hand solves most of that problem. Also handy for gymnastics accidents. Fat Sparrow; There are people out there who take the words of a birthing woman literally?? Whoa. That's asking for trouble. Martin; Speaking of xbox... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYducok2od0 Voodooladay; But when they turn three, you can technically send them out to work to keep the shoe fund buoyant... they are also an excellent excuse to buy games consoles, if you can put up with the smell. Thanks for sticking a comment in, Jo – there just aren’t enough positive stories out there… not that being prepared for the bad isn’t useful, but being scared of it makes it a scary experience. It just doesn’t have to be that way! (Must remember to research birthing balls…)

Vicky; I have lazy chisellers too – I wouldn’t blame you or them, it’s a scary (and breezy!) world outside that womb. The tearing (ouch) can be minimized… rubbing Vitamin E oil into that spot for a few weeks before hand solves most of that problem. Also handy for gymnastics accidents.

Fat Sparrow; There are people out there who take the words of a birthing woman literally?? Whoa. That’s asking for trouble.

Martin; Speaking of xbox…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYducok2od0

Voodooladay; But when they turn three, you can technically send them out to work to keep the shoe fund buoyant… they are also an excellent excuse to buy games consoles, if you can put up with the smell.

]]> By: Voodoolady http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5961 Voodoolady Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:53:30 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5961 Art godammit. Art godammit.

]]> By: Voodoolady http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5960 Voodoolady Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:53:10 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5960 To be honest, the thoughts of having to own my own child scares me more than pregnancy or childbirth. Oh, maternal instinct where are thou? To be honest, the thoughts of having to own my own child scares me more than pregnancy or childbirth.

Oh, maternal instinct where are thou?

]]> By: Martin http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5957 Martin Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:19:47 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5957 'like the cork from a bottle....' ‘like the cork from a bottle….’

]]> By: Fat Sparrow http://www.cackaloo.com/2010/01/10/ten-things-they-don%e2%80%99t-warn-you-about-before-you-get-pregnant%e2%80%a6-4/#comment-5956 Fat Sparrow Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:07:07 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1523#comment-5956 K8, that's the story of my life, dead funny after years of pondering, and I would undoubtedly be thinking it even funnier if it had happened to someone else. Even on the dole my room was private; I think they were afraid to put anyone else in with me. I don't know what they put in my chart but the nurses would only come in to my room in groups of twos and they sent a social worker 'round my gaff after, too, the bastards. I guess I was convincing with my threats whilst in labor, oops. Granny -- I ate enough for two 5 pounders! K8, that’s the story of my life, dead funny after years of pondering, and I would undoubtedly be thinking it even funnier if it had happened to someone else. Even on the dole my room was private; I think they were afraid to put anyone else in with me. I don’t know what they put in my chart but the nurses would only come in to my room in groups of twos and they sent a social worker ’round my gaff after, too, the bastards. I guess I was convincing with my threats whilst in labor, oops.

Granny — I ate enough for two 5 pounders!

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