i was so consumed the other day that i didnt get to talk about some cool stuff i did this week, wednesday night , Chopper Ken took me out for dinner at the famous dallas resteraunt Campizi’s. it is the oldest resteraunt in dallas, i actually have a friend named Charlie who is related ot the campizi family and we talked also this week, we laughed about silly poems we wrote nine years ago. at dinner, i spilled water and chopper ken started saying ” the water is heading for the floor and it is slowly heading southbound between tables three and four, blocking foot traffic for almost a whole foot… what is so funny about that is Chopper ken’s been the traffic guy forever, and i had never heard him call a “spill” before. LOL. Then i went and saw my good friend BEA on thursday ( as i slowly re aquaint with my friends from dallas after the connecticut haitus), i had a good talk with her. I met her at a Bradley boirth class, I had Helen right before her class graduated and the teacher invited me back to tell the class about my birth experience with Helen because it was really the “ideal” natural water birth….Bea now has a son named EJ, who is just a few months younger than Helen, and it was so cute they played together!!!! while i was gone, Bea had been pregnant but the baby had been diagnosed with trisomy18, or Eddies Syndrome ( i need to look it up ) but from what she told me it was so abnormally developed and small that it had a 0% chance of making it full term. It was sad to talk to her about having to terminate the opregnancy, but also interesting from the medical standpoint as i am HUGE into birth and natural birth and i had never heard of Trisomy18 before. I thought she wouldnt want to talk about it but she really was quite open and we talked about the entire thing, from finding out, through the actual termination of the pregnancy ( look i am not opinionated about regular abortions…but trisomy 18 is a birth defect where the baby has 0 chance of survival, and to save herself from a full hysterectomy, the best thing to do was terminate, and i support that decision). aside from the serious stuff, we clicked like we had seen eachother every day… i love BEA, and Zachary told mewe all the way home that a bee can be a person AND a bug. It only then dawned upon me that he had first thought we were going to visit a BUG!!!! anyhow, i need to go, Shannon is gonna show me her placenta pictures again! woo hoo!!!!! CHARLIE’S PLACENTA O & U Bethie
Bubbie and dad have the kids and i am spending the night at Shannons, we are cuitting up… last time we talked about our births ( we had our babies with the same midwife) and we were talking about howwer were in INTENSE labor and the midwife and our friend and doula ( labor assistant) dani and the birth assistant are all iun the kitchen having tea. I dont know who all was at shannons son’s birth but at Helen’s was Dinah (midwife), the birth assistant that i didnt know, Dani, my step mom, my friend Cyndi, and Chris…. Shannon calls from the other room ” I wasn’t there” i remember telling Dinah i didnt want candles on the bathtub… i screamed at her ” i dont want none of that primal shit i am just… and dani thought i was just takig a break but i started pushing and Helen came out JUST in time for everyone to come rushing in…. Dinah had just told everyone it would be a few more hours… it was great, got there at 1, delivered at 4, home by 6:30… with my sucking newborn WHO IS NOW ONE AND A HALF AND MOLESTS ME FOR MY NOO NOO’S at every opportunity. OY OY OY.
oh i cant resist… sharing the touching experience with all of YOU….
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I hope everything is well and fine for you, Beth. Yeah, you need time to do things with your friends, for yourself and not worry about other stuff.
And Z… dun you think kids just say the darnest things?! Z is so cute… he thought he was gonna visit a BEE?? LOL hahahahhahahaha
I just got home from the SEX club..and… reading this.. I was munching on a bacon egg and cheese biscuit…til i GOT TO THE PIC.. omg.. that was.. um.. er.. ah.. intense…LOL!
luf ya..
Dee
Hey there!
I went thru Bradley classes also and used a midwife and had my youngest in water. It was a great experience. She gave me a Homeopathic remedy towards the last 6 weeks of my pregnancy she said that softens the cervix. Well my water broke and I felt no pain, we had to drive one hour to the midwife. And I had my child 1 hour later, and went home 3 hours later also with a suckling newborn. No drugs, no episotomy, it was great! Thanks for sharing, WOW, lol to that pic.
Sorry Dawn about the pic… Dani ( the doula) has placenta pictures and maybe later you can order in chinese food and i can post pictures of helen’s birth… hey thats a good idea! tonights entry will have some pics of the midwives place and maybe even Helen’s placenta… who knows?
Victoria… ISNT waterbirth the BEST????? was the natural stuff you took 6 weeks prior a combo o9f evening primrose oil and cohosh? I remember that when i was about 8 days overdue, she started me taking black cohosh and blue cohosh every four hours because if i went 2 weeks over she wouldn’t be able to deliver there at the birth center. it didn’t do a darn thing. What actually worked the very first time i tried it ( dont cringe everyone) was the nipple stimulation. i was watching oprah ( it was around 4pm on the 13 of november 2000) and i said to myself OK i wil do this.. and i squeezed once and got this HUGE contraction, thought i might just die, and swore to not do it again, within the hour i had another and by 7am the next morning they were 6-8 minutes apart depending on if i was moving around a lot. Before we went to the midwives.. i met my friend Dani at the mall and we alked around a lot, i think THAT really helped caue every time i would sit sown, the contractions would slow down…getting in the bath made the difference for sure. i was only in the tub half hour before she was born… he he… no meds, no cutting, no nothing… and dinah says " the best births are where I have to do nothing" well, since she barely cought Helen , and she got home in time for dinner, I would say Helen was a good birth lol. i remember not realizing i was in transition and all of a sudden Dinah said… " feel the baby’s head… and i was liek " this is it? " i thought the "firewall" was gonna be much worse. my water broke like… a minute before i delivered, perfect to coat the canal so she would slip out in ONE contraction…
ok DAWN, have you dropped your fork? lol. why am i writing this in my own comments? I am such a dork…. Later on I will go ahead and put some of Helen’s birth pics up here… i wanna go through them cause theres a really good one where its taken from behind me so you cant " see" anything perverse about me but you see her head under the water… ok ok enough of my own comments. LOL.-Beth