posted July 12, 2005 09:54 PM            

Did you guys have any unsusual births?

I was almost 2 months premature,
the birth itself was easy
(although my mom thinks I was stalling and didnt want to come out),
but I was too weak to suckle from the breast
or from the bottle,
and had to have a tube forced down my throat
into my tummy to feed me for a while.
Someone told my mom I was just too lazy to suck from the breast,
so she would have to put me to sleep hungry, and I would cry and cry,
but then I learned to work for it.
Hmmm...

posted July 13, 2005 09:07 AM            

I had to be pulled out with pliers

posted July 13, 2005 07:48 PM              

I was only a couple days early (2 - is that the common number im seeing) Otherwise as far as i know the birth went alright. Im not sure, come to think of it, if i was a c-section or natural birth. Ill have to ask. I was healthy as a child. Never sick. I could count the times i was sick (even common cold) on one hand until i began to hit puberty. Then everything changed. Still, however, no majoy illnesses or sicknesses. I did come down with Thrush of the mouth in 6th grade. Doctors were baffeled. I remember having doc after doc after nurse after doc come into the exam room .... "Ohh , doc so-and-so told me about you, you mind if i have a look?" finally i got irritated and told people no.

posted July 16, 2005 12:31 AM            

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I guess it was meant to be--because we have loved each other very much. I haven't posted about this anywhere yet....but she just died suddenly and unexpectedly early Wednesday, the 13th. She was Pisces--I think Uranus got her, darn it. Well, now she can be in heaven.

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Wildflwrs,
I'm so sorry to read about your loss, certainly she is in heaven. I hope that she was not in pain.

posted July 16, 2005 02:04 AM              

i have capricorn rising and i was 6 weeks premature (i think it was 6 weeks). my mother was confined to her bed for weeks or months, i don't remember, before i was born. she told me that my father would carry her to the kitchen sink to wash her hair; she was that restricted. they're divorced now, but for some reason that image of his doing that for her makes my heart melt and my eyes teary.

maybe because my husband hates me and wouldn't lift a single finger to help me with my newborn babe when i was almost immobile with pneumonia...maybe it's because my mother hates me, but once she loved me enough to help me enter this world, and the man she now hates loved her enough to gently wash her hair while she was carrying and nurturing me...

i don't know, is such a heavy heart redolent of cappy rising?

there was one thread here that i used to read over and over...from a knowflake who posted very little...she was talking about her mother, remembering her mother always telling her as a little girl that she was "shiny as a new penny." she then said, "sad...i miss her." for some reason the simplicity and the huge amount of love and remembering in this post touched me tremendously and deeply. and there was such joy in it too. she and her mother had shared such a sweet love for each other...

i hope to find it again. and i tell my son every day that he's shiny as a new penny.