Yeah, we’re gonna let it slide
Posted on 26th November 2007 by Kate
Hello everyone! I haven’t been around much recently because of moving house and actually having to go to work. However, being on placement again does have its advantages in that I have a funny story to tell. Before you read it though, I should warn you - it’s a bit gross. Doesn’t rank highly on the ‘ick’ scale for a midwifery story but is probably best not to read it if you’re currently eating.
My mentor received a panicked text message from one of her pregnant ladies who was convinced she had worms as she had seen them in her poo.
She phoned her to see what’s happening. The woman has calmed down and says it’s OK, ‘I ate a coconut cake yesterday, I just forced a bit more poo out and there aren’t any more wormy bits…’
It’s good when women are willing to share things with us.
On a happier note, I did my first birth with mum standing up last week. It was really cool, apart from the involuntary ‘Wooaaaaahhhh’ sound that I made as baby slid out.Â
Enough baby talk, back to the video game geekery….
Mat
November 26th, 2007
11:29 pm
What’s the benefit of mum standing up? Is it just that gravity helps the little blighter pop out? Seems pretty risky, unless you had a tiny bouncy castle or trampoline that the baby bounced off. Or maybe a little birthing pool that mum stands over so the baby can learn to dive really, really early on! If we ever want to be a top Olympic nation I think it’s something we have to consider!
Pete
November 27th, 2007
12:15 am
Kate-Very funny, but don’t you think it is a bit unprofessional to be telling us all about Gloria’s medical care?
Pete
November 27th, 2007
12:15 am
…too far?…
Andy
November 27th, 2007
7:25 am
No Pete. Unlike Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning I feel it is not possible to go too far on this blog.
I think the involuntary Wooaaaaahhhh should become standard practise at births. It’s genius. That or cricket like shouts of “Catch it”.
Andy
November 27th, 2007
7:32 am
I’d just like to say I don’t think Fred would actually say that it is possible to go too far on the blog. He was probably referring to a bridge in Holland.
Kate
November 27th, 2007
9:21 am
Mat - there are in general lots of benefits to any position where gravity helps. The stranded beetle position that most people think of women giving birth in is quite stupid because they end up pushing up hill.
As a not very interesting aside - I think it was Henry VIII who started that -he wanted to see his babies being born so insisted that his wives were flat on their backs. Soon everyone was doing it, whereas previously women just did what came naturally to them. Which is what I liked about this standing one - she was just really instinctive all the way through labour.
We did have two pillows strategically placed for baby to land on if I hadn’t caught it.
Gloria
November 27th, 2007
1:09 pm
Ha ha. Not only was I eating when reading this story, I was eating noodles! But it’s OK, cos NOTHING could put me off food at the moment!
I’m having my scan in less than 2 weeks. I didn’t think I’d be all that bothered, but I’m SO excited!
Mat
November 27th, 2007
2:47 pm
So that last scan that Andy posted up wasn’t real? You had me fooled.
Gloria
November 27th, 2007
2:54 pm
Andy, do we want a 27″ widescreen digital TV with built-in Freeview and integral DVD player? It’s a Bush. I mean it’s made by Bush. It’s not actually a bush. It’s a TV. £75. Let me know ASAP cos otherwise Tony says it’s going to the tip!
Andy
November 27th, 2007
3:04 pm
Say no then follow him to the tip and collect it once he’s dropped it off.
Gloria
November 27th, 2007
5:27 pm
That thought did cross my mind!
Andy
November 27th, 2007
5:31 pm
Hee hee… you nearly finished? Actually - looking at the time you’re probably on your way home.
Kate
November 27th, 2007
5:38 pm
Isn’t a 27″ tv a bit big for you posh-ys???
Pete
November 27th, 2007
8:11 pm
Do my eyes deceive me!?!?!? Do you even have to ask if you want a 27″ for £75 pounds?!?!?!
Andy
November 27th, 2007
9:00 pm
Er. Yes. I think the answer was no.
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
8:26 am
My boss is off sick at the moment and one of my colleagues (I’ll call her Bob, in case she ever reads this) is acting up until she comes back.
One of my other colleagues is also pregnant, and due in about 6 weeks. She rang in sick this morning, and said she’d ring back after she’s seen her midwive tomorrow afternoon, to let us know if she’ll be back in this week or not. Bear in mind with this situation that she’s 42, has 4 children already, one of whom was only born last December, and also has two step-children. In my eyes, I think she’s allowed to feel a bit unwell occasionally! On top of the fact that it is November, and colds are in abundance!
Anyway, Bob had a proper rant about it this morning, about how she’d “sailed through” both of her pregnancies, never had a day off sick, only finished work one day before her first child was born and had been working full-time up to that point. And she kept saying things like “she’s not ill, she’s just pregnant. She should pull herself together” and sympathetic comments like that.
Well, I feel like crap (is that word allowed on the blog?! Sorry if not) today and was hoping that I might be able to work from home this afternoon so I could take a sneaky nap between doing my visits and writing up my notes. Obviously, this would require me to actually tell Bob that I’m pregnant, which I was planning to do today.
I don’t think I will now. I don’t think I can handle being told to pull myself together. I know pregnancy isn’t an illness but it can certainly make you feel ill. I want a bit of sympathy!
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
8:46 am
Actually, that’s not true. I don’t particularly want sympathy but I definitely don’t want to be told I’m making a fuss about nothing!
Susie
November 28th, 2007
8:57 am
That’s terrible Gloria! You could poison her food then tell her “its not an illness its just food poisoning”. Hang on, that may be harsher than what she has said. Gosh, I hope she never reads this. Good job most people on the blog have fake names.
Jonny Evans
November 28th, 2007
11:14 am
I’ve discovered recently that the best response to uncomfortable situations like that is a good ol’ neck punch.
Seriously - It’s immensely unexpected when you receive a neck punch.
That’s just my ten cents anyway
Mat
November 28th, 2007
11:47 am
You mean punching someone in the neck, not punching them with your neck don’t you?
Being punched by someone’s neck would be unexpected, but probably not that painful. And you’d look like an idiot trying, but that might make everyone laugh and relieve the awkwardness of situation.
Yeah, that’s probably what you were getting at.
Jonny Evans
November 28th, 2007
12:21 pm
I never really considered punching someone with my neck… I wonder how successful that would be? Probably worth a bit of research.
I was suggesting actually punching someone in the neck (with a fist - or perhaps with a judo-type chop)
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
12:41 pm
I think maybe food poisoning would be a little harsh. In retrospect I wish I had told her anyway because I think she would have felt a bit embarrassed. Actually, no. I don’t think she does embarrassed.
Maybe a judo-chop to the neck would have been best. Unfortunately, I think the moment’s passed now.
Pete
November 28th, 2007
1:01 pm
Technically the unborn baby is a parasite (sorry to describe you like that Amazon, I will appologise to you when you are born). So if she says ‘your not ill, your pregnant’ you could say that you have a parasitic infection.
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
1:02 pm
Oooh, I like that!
Jonny Evans
November 28th, 2007
1:24 pm
It’s slightly weird that you like that Gloria.
hehe
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
1:49 pm
I don’t like the idea that my baby is a parasite (although it definitely is! Maybe it’ll become a symbiote but at the moment it is definitely a parasite!) but I do like the idea of telling Bob that I have a parasitic infection instead of telling her I’m pregnant. I think it would be fun.
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
1:53 pm
I’ve just found a great definition of a parasite.
“A professional dinner guest, especially in Ancient Greece”.
I like the idea of being a professional dinner guest. That would have to be the best job in the world.
Jonny Evans
November 28th, 2007
1:57 pm
I think you’re right. Previously I thought that being a presenter on Top Gear was the best job ever - but being a professional dinner guest is definitely the new champion!
Gloria
November 28th, 2007
2:16 pm
It is a close call, though.
I met someone today who has a 7-year-old grandson. Whenever he watches Top Gear he always wears jeans and his suit jacket because he wants to be Jeremy Clarkson.
Susie
November 28th, 2007
5:50 pm
We have a TV channel called Dave. Its very blokey. I think that’s why its called Dave. And I feel wrong that its one of my favourite channels. Because most of the time it just shows QI, Top Gear and A Question if Sport.
Kate
November 28th, 2007
7:28 pm
I love Dave - I watch Whose line is it anyway? all the time.
Pregnancy is not an illness but it is possible to be ill AND pregnant.
Fact.
And if work get funny with pregnant people they should just sue their arses off.
Pete
November 28th, 2007
9:22 pm
We don’t get Dave in Hull. Well we might…our tv Ariel is rubbish, but the house had a sky dish attached when we moved in, so we bought a sky box on ebay and get free view through the dish. But it has one or 2 channels that are different, and Dave is one of them. I have just discovered the BBC iplayer which is great.
The only problem is that it dosent run on a mac (did I tell you I got a mac?). However, those clever people at apple (the people who made my nice shiny new mac) have made it so that I can put my copy of windows on my mac as well. SO all I need to do is tell it to restart in windows, then I can use any windows only things. Good eh. True, installing windows on my beautiful mac did make me feel like I was urinating on it, but it is useful to have for some things.
Did I tell you I got a mac?
Andy
November 28th, 2007
11:03 pm
You did. Why do you have to restart your computer? You can run XP/Vista from inside OS X / Leopard…
Pete
November 28th, 2007
11:33 pm
if you run it from inside OS X it splits all the systems resources 50/50, so I only get half the processor speed, ram etc on each. If you do it where you restart it means each system gets all the resources.
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