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Good for standing up for yourself

A lot of people are afraid to do that with medical professionals.

posted by jollyjeff on January 3, 2006 at 10:43 AM | link to this | reply

How stressful.

You seem to be taking it very well.  I think I would be a little on edge.  Good luck with your baby and everything in the new year. 

posted by Trevor_Cunnington on December 31, 2005 at 1:13 PM | link to this | reply

She'll be there when she's ready...

And there will be clues -- from the mother's perspective.  After feeling worn out, apprehensive, and out of sorts for weeks or days, one morning she'll suddenly have a burst of energy.  There's a lot to get done, and she'll be busy nesting: baking a cake, getting at a project that hasn't interested her for some time, preparing the baby's bed, clothes, etc.. Or shopping.  Sometimes there's the urge to make sure all the shelves are stocked. After the day's energy and optimism, the delivery process starts between 12 and 18 hours later with intermittent contractions. Today's actually the birthday of my sixth  -- he's 34.

posted by Pat_B on December 30, 2005 at 8:24 AM | link to this | reply

Yeah, it feels really good to be in control in these situations.

So much medicalisation of pregnancy really that we can do without!!!

posted by Straightforward on December 30, 2005 at 5:16 AM | link to this | reply

Ca88andra...

...it's just become a very interventionist 'industry', and the specialists are way too keen to jump in there at the slightest provocation. My attitude is that we've managed to get through 300,000 + years of evolution without all that stuff because Nature, and the Mother, and the Baby, intrinsically know what's best. Of course, our infant mortality rates have dropped because of medical interventions, and that's great. But there's a time and a place, and it's gone too interventionist in the last decade or so.

Thanks for the words of encouragement, m'dear.

D x

posted by DamonLeigh on December 30, 2005 at 2:29 AM | link to this | reply

Cheers...

..Dylan.

We're trying our best.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on December 30, 2005 at 2:24 AM | link to this | reply

PassionFlower...

...great words nad, funnily enough, that's the way I am naturally!

I do, of course, have a few fears right now, but I'm keeping them to myself, and letting T get on with moving into birth time.

Thanks for your thoughts!

D x

posted by DamonLeigh on December 30, 2005 at 2:24 AM | link to this | reply

Sounds unsettling,

but you seem to have an optimal attitude about it.

Well wishes for you all...

posted by Dyl_Pickle on December 29, 2005 at 5:27 PM | link to this | reply

You certainly did the right thing in questioning and asking for answers. I wish I had done that when I had my eldest - it might not have been so traumatic.

posted by Ca88andra on December 29, 2005 at 3:00 PM | link to this | reply

I'm veyy sorry to hear of your plight with T and the new baby.

Try not to stress out too much. Stress is your worst enemy right now.

I know it's hard, but you have to seem calm when around your wife. You have to seem like you arent' worried at all, so she'll be constantly reassured. She needs relaxing, calm days...a good nights rest if at all possible...plenty of water (don't drink the tap water!)

Now take a deep breath and relax! You're gonna be a daddy real soon! Woo-Hoo!

posted by Passionflower on December 29, 2005 at 10:12 AM | link to this | reply