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Postby NTP66 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:56 pm

I was there so that my wife could use her newfound Hulk strength to try and crush my hand while she pushed... and then to calm her down when the doctor was taking too long stitching her back up.

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Postby meow » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:59 pm

I’ll never understand the need for anyone other than dad to be in there for the moment of truth. Nurses repel outta the God damn ceiling, why overcrowd the room with non-essential bodies?

(I understand that moms might think her mother is essential, but I don’t get it)
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Postby slappybrown » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:00 pm

IIRC, meow's MIL is a person of note here for being bad company. do not read too much into this.

for anyone in our circle who has a reasonably good relationship with their mother, it goes hubby+wife+wife's mom in the room. i do not have 40+ births as supporting evidence. but i have 10-20.

pittsburgh is like soviet russia in many ways. the different technologies and lifestyles that we refine here on the coast will trickle over to you eventually. until then, just keep washing those cars and removing mothers from daughters (presumably forcefully - yep). and i assume you all have awful mustaches.
So in the 10-20 the wife's mother was in the room for the bulk of them?

Passing off NJ as the vanguard of culture and human advancement is, unquestionably, a restoration of you as the bad take boy of 5AF. May your reign be long and prosperous, at least until tif does a thing.
Not just the bulk: all

Again - assuming the wife + mother have a strong relationship. if things are shaky, then the mom is certainly not invited.

and quit playing dumb. i couldn't even find a restaurant in pittsburgh that carried olive oil last time i was there. it's basically on par with historic williamsburg, as far as catching up with contemporary times.
Yea, you guys are weirdos.

Re your last point, I have spent lots of time in the Philly burbs on the NJ side. Lets not pretend like it isnt all the mongoloids present in Philly with the added "benefit" of misplaced NJ pride, only with more space, more trees, and nice houses. A bootleg Main Line doesnt impress me much.

And we put olive oil on the table in the mexican restaurants here, so not sure what happened to you on that front

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:00 pm

There was only one nurse in our room when my daughter was born. Once she was in the final moments of pushing, more entered, but basically sat in the corner prepping the heating table.

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Postby shmenguin » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:07 pm

I’ll never understand the need for anyone other than dad to be in there for the moment of truth. Nurses repel outta the God damn ceiling, why overcrowd the room with non-essential bodies?

(I understand that moms might think her mother is essential, but I don’t get it)
i dunno...i think having a person you trust there with you who has also expelled a person from their privates could be valuable support if the labor is difficult. i'm certainly skewed on this since mrs shmenguin went drug free and had long, horrible labors. her mom was valuable (for the first. not as much for the second, since i knew a thing or two at that point).

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Postby Silentom » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:10 pm

mrs. shmenguin is a brave lass.

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Postby shmenguin » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:17 pm

mrs. shmenguin is a brave lass.
Indeed. She didn't care for the experience of being dropped off in the ER and then escorted up to triage with our first. So for the next one she just had me park in the garage and we did the 15 minute walk. While she was 6 cm dilated and having contractions every 2 minutes. She also pushed for almost 3 hours, was in labor for 24 and was in extreme labor for 12. No drugs.

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Postby Silentom » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:20 pm

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:20 pm

And then she had to go home with shmenguin.

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Postby dodint » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:22 pm

It's rare that it happens but this thread delivered today.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:25 pm

Nice play on words, dodint.

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Postby Tomas » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:26 pm

There was only one nurse in our room when my daughter was born. Once she was in the final moments of pushing, more entered, but basically sat in the corner prepping the heating table.
My older daughter was born at Mayo Clinic in Rochester (hooray United Healthcare insurance at my employer!). I am not joking, but the delivery room was packed with doctors and nurses - all all of that was their standard procedure. Just in terms of delivery doctors - the starting lineup was THREE (one of them with the *sole* task of being the "expert stitcher"). Two or three anesthesiologists (all with MD degrees), some back-ups, nurses.

My younger was born in NW Arkansas. A really good clinic, but when we asked "so how many doctors will be present" - they looked at us as if we were from a different planet... :D

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:28 pm

There was only one nurse in our room when my daughter was born. Once she was in the final moments of pushing, more entered, but basically sat in the corner prepping the heating table.
My older daughter was born at Mayo Clinic in Rochester (hooray United Healthcare insurance at my employer!). I am not joking, but the delivery room was packed with doctors and nurses - all all of that was their standard procedure. Just in terms of delivery doctors - the starting lineup was THREE (one of them with the *sole* task of being the "expert stitcher"). Two or three anesthesiologists (all with MD degrees), some back-ups, nurses.

My younger was born in NW Arkansas. A really good clinic, but when we asked "so how many doctors will be present" - they looked at us as if we were from a different planet... :D
It all depends on the situation, but in most cases you won't even see the doctor until the pushing begins.

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Postby Silentom » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:28 pm

Nice play on words, dodint.
If that was intentional, it'd be brilliant.

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Postby grunthy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:29 pm

Seems like a tad overkill.

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Postby dodint » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:56 pm

Nice play on words, dodint.
If that was intentional, it'd be brilliant.
All of your terrible puns and you deny me this?

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:59 pm

The nurse and I delivered my second (who came into this world on a log flume, think about that word picture dodint) because someone broke the elevater at Magee.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:12 pm

Midwife center for both our kids, so no drugs for my wife either.

All I remember is hearing the man in black screaming when they went to 50.

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:50 pm

First was natural, second was induced and a little bit of drugs necessary, third was natural.
Total # of pushes for all three: 11. Maybe.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:30 pm

Why would you want anyone's mother in the room? is this a thing and we were the outliers?
I have to agree. The birth of a child is something, at least for the actual birth part, that is meant to be shared by the mom and dad. I cannot fathom being in the delivery room with my wife's feet up in the stirrups, looking down at *that* with my mother-in-law right across from me. That is downright bizarre.

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Postby columbia » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:34 pm

No kids ever for me, but having the MIL there seems like some hippy/Satanic ****; that’s for the parents and health care providers.

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Postby Silentom » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:00 pm

Nice play on words, dodint.
If that was intentional, it'd be brilliant.
All of your terrible puns and you deny me this?
Listen, Chief - my puns are top notch gold, ya hear?

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Postby meow » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:29 am

My wife's mother has been a nurse for 35ish years now... she will not be in the room (nor will she be in the same town) when our daughter comes into this world. That goes doubly for my mother. It will be me and my wife. Period.

We will call and tell people the good news after baby c2i is born.
This is how we did it. I also set up a phone tree so I didn't have to text 37 people. I told my brother and my SIL.

"Boy - 7lbs 7oz - mom and baby are healthy"

Then three years later

"Girl- 7lbs 5oz - mom and baby are healthy"

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:32 am

I have no idea how or why my brain didn't process that as two separate children at first... I thought through the phone tree the boy turned to a girl at some point and everyone thought you had a girl instead.

I'm an idiot.

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Postby meow » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:42 am

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