Hulver's site || Comments || These are the days where meaning disappears.

Also... by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed May 21, 2008 at 10:04:43 AM EST

Two nurses in our crowd, who've worked ob/gyn.

When the various mothers get together the subject of "horrifying (but, much later, amusing) childbirth experiences" sometimes come up. Terms such as "4th level laceration", "vaganus", "prolapsed uterus", with attached descriptions, and the phrase "spurting blood", will cause some very tough guys to get very pale and find someplace else to be.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
[ Parent ]

It's very scary by debacle (2.00 / 0) #34 Wed May 21, 2008 at 04:37:45 PM EST

Women die in childbirth all the time. Less so now than before, but at the same time it is a risk. It's a difficult thing to be excited about the birth of your child yet worried about the safety and health of both the child and the mother.

I can't even begin to imagine the fear and emotional up and downs that women go through.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

[ Parent ]

Me neither. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #37 Wed May 21, 2008 at 04:43:56 PM EST

Pregnancy is one of the most awesome, and most scary things in the entirety of the human experience.

[ Parent ]

Pregnancy isn't too bad by debacle (2.00 / 0) #41 Wed May 21, 2008 at 04:48:17 PM EST

But maybe having experienced it (second-hand) a few times has made me less awe-struck by it.

Labor itself, though, is terrifying for everyone involved, I think.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

[ Parent ]

: I've lived with a woman through pregnancy. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #45 Wed May 21, 2008 at 04:50:09 PM EST

It's both good, and bad. Both on levels that my fragile male mind can't comprehend.

[ Parent ]