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Mneme, not much disturbs my sleep that is online these days.
I can, after all, turn it off and go back to real life. Have a good one.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 27, 2006 at 3:04 PM
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Blanche
and you would definitely need a larger apartment. Hope I haven't disturbed your sleep..
posted by
mneme
on November 27, 2006 at 2:53 PM
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Mneme, that boggles the mind, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 10:40 PM
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Blanche,
my friend was a single mother, though she did have her own home by then, and she was delighted. So this wasn't so much a warning as a 'you never know.' I've never regretted having mine, except perhaps momentarily when I was utterly exhausted in the middle of the night! But it passes soon enough and you feel like mother-of-the-year the first time they sleep an eight-hour stretch.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 9:56 PM
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Thanks for the warning, Mneme, I wonder how I would feel to find myself
pregnant at this stage of my life? Very mixed emotions, I'm sure.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 9:50 PM
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Hi Blanche..
don't get me started on delivery rooms, LOL. Not quite happy hour.. until the moment of birth, that is, and the relief that it's all over and you have a healthy child. Funny how it can be so universal and yet so unique all at the same time.
PS - a friend of mine was told at eighteen that she was not likely to be able to have children. She was devastated... and very surprised, at forty-five, to find herself pregnant with her little girl. Watch out for that late-life hormone surge..
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 9:45 PM
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A very enlightening post, Mneme, as childbirth is not likely something I'm
going to experience, so the mysteries of the inner sanctum of the delivery room is intriguing. I'm glad you and your children came out of it okay.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 8:58 PM
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star4you,
no problem :) just coming over to visit, and then I'm going to do some work.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 8:22 PM
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Joe Love,
nice to meet you, and thank you for the compliment.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 8:07 PM
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mneme
I found you're story extremely interesting since, being in the U.S, I've never heard of a "nursing home" as you have described. You had a hundred different things going on here, and you juggled them without confusing me once. Nice story!
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 26, 2006 at 8:02 PM
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Tonyzonit,
thank you, you are very perceptive, and sympathetic. I have no idea where this came from; I was just thinking about something, and out it all came (a bit like childbirth itself!). I really felt for the poor "double forceps" mother. One set, had I needed them, would have been enough for my daughter to have been an only child.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 8:01 PM
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Wiley,
they are, mine too.. I must call her! Thanks for stopping by.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 7:57 PM
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OOOOOOOOOOPS,I THOUGHT YOU JUST HAD THE BABY
posted by
star4sky5
on November 26, 2006 at 7:57 PM
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star4you, thank you for the warm comment,
but my "baby" is now a 20-year-old six-footer..! I can see now that it would look as though this was quite recent. Oh the power of memory - seems like yesterday.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 7:56 PM
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WELCOME BABY AND MOM
posted by
star4sky5
on November 26, 2006 at 6:16 PM
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mneme
Mum's are special people luv.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 26, 2006 at 6:10 PM
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Thank God we blokes don't have to go through all this - phew!
Mind you, we do remember with pride and pleasure the birth of our babies, so i guess the ladies do so even more, and those not-so-easy births must be funny to look back on and recount after the passage of time.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 26, 2006 at 1:25 PM
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