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dichroic - 2010-08-18 19:50:56
1. A rowing coach I've trained with recommends always diluting sports drinks 50/50 with water to avoid sugar highs and crashes. I've found that works particularly well when I'm using it to recover from dehydration. 2. I suppose it's too late now or I'd be asking if you've considered a Diva (or Luna or Keeper) cup. 3. Maybe every time they render a woman barren for reasons of her health it's one step closer to saying "hey, wait a minute.... maybe she's a person all by herself?" or even to deciding the guy in the white yarmulka isn't so infallible after all. (I've been having a someone related argument with someone from high school in Facebook today - when another old classmate wrote about how strong-minded her daughter is, he said something about that being good because strong women force men to be better to keep up. I pointed out that the most important thing about a strong woman *isn't* the effect she has on men, but who she is in herself and that there might be better reasons to raise one's daughters to be willful and independent.)
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red-wine - 2010-08-18 20:25:25
I'm in the midst of a very interesting book about the history of childbirth, and was shocked (well, maybe not really (*shocked*) to learn that until VERY recently -the 1980s in some cases- Catholic hospitals would not administer pain relief to women in labor because they were supposed to experience the agony. Blame Eve. God said so.
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Stephanie - 2010-08-18 21:11:02
In reference to red-wine's comment - my mother had epidurals for all five of her deliveries in a Catholic hospital (from 1954 to 1967), so maybe it was a regional thing...?
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JJ - 2010-08-19 02:15:02
RE the pain meds, I had all three of my kids in a Catholic hospital - 1978, 1987 and 1989 and they were cool with the pain meds. "Keep your dogma off my lawn" - LA, you truly have a way with words! :)
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OrneryPest - 2010-08-19 10:40:31
But Sky Daddy loves you! In spite of his impossibly convoluted three-way identity crisis they call a Holy Trinity! And a selected member of his sky-full of winged zombies strumming harps will magically protect you! And I can only begin to imagine the sorta medical care you're gonna get from people who actually believe that hogwash.
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Pam L - 2010-08-19 14:08:09
Granted, I did not have my first until '86 but it was a Catholic hospital and I got the feeling they were very familiar, and encouraged pain meds. Who wants a soon to be mom screaming bloody murder up and down the halls all day and night. That would have been me, and was, the first time because I was trying to go 'natural" until it was determined that big ol kid was sideways and not coming out anytime soon and they put me under quick when his heart rate dropped suddenly and did a C section. 2nd kid , even larger, but not sideways, still would not come out, 2nd epidural finally kicked in , just in time for my 2nd C section (Dr had a plane to catch to Tahoe- I THINK he was joking?)And the following morphine drip was much appreciated too.
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stepfordtart - 2010-08-19 16:09:47
Over here, not only are sanitary products subject to the same shameless profiteering that you get, but they're also a taxable product. Essentials (like bread) are tax free, but luxuries (like chocolate biscuits and tampons) are taxable. Odd. s x
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terri t - 2010-08-19 18:19:09
Just getting into the 6th day of the creeping crud and delivering Poolie to the airport to fly home....I don't think I have enough brain cells left to make a good comment. I can only wish you well and hope this surgery makes a bit difference for you.
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Jim - 2010-08-21 16:17:12
My younger two were born in a very good Catholic hospital that was just two blocks from our house. Jill was born in 1982 and we had our fingers crossed that she would wait until the hospital opened their new birthing center that allowed for in-room delivery. The birthing center did open just a few days before she was born... but after many hours of labor, she was delivered via C-section. Three years later we attended VBAC classes (Vaginal Birth After Ceasarian) and hoped for a home birth... but after a day and a half of home labor with a couple of nurse-midwives and a birthing coach in attendance, we ended up with a mad dash to the hospital and Jeremy was delivered via C-section. But when it came time for my vasectomy, I had to go to the public hospital because Our Lady of Lourdes, of course, did not allow that procedure.
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Ruby - 2010-08-21 19:23:54
AFAIK we don't have Catholic (or any other denomination or religion) this side of the pond. Or, if we do, we have a National Health Service that means it doesn't matter. But then again, we don't get a choice over which hospital we go to (well, theoretically we do, but no one understands the system well enough to work out how).
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