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I think I could have made it to hospital in 10 minutes....  I darn near passed out seeing the afterbirth placenta come out on one of our births.  Never felt so glad to be a male...  |
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2017, 03:59:02 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2017, 05:02:30 PM » |
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I could do it. With a couple doctors, about 5 nurses, and a well equipped Hospital. Don't know what my wife would need. |
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2017, 05:03:49 PM » |
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When I was a rookie cop I delivered a baby girl to a poor Hispanic couple at 1:00 in the morning. By the time the ambulance got there I had delivered the baby and the afterbirth. It was a beautiful thing!
Watched both my kids hatch and 2 of my grand kids at the request of my daughter. Her husband was a puss. The best experience you can have is watching your kids be delivered. I cut the cord on 4 and fully delivered the one. I was a medic up until 6 months ago.
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2017, 05:12:30 PM » |
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When I was a rookie cop I delivered a baby girl to a poor Hispanic couple at 1:00 in the morning. By the time the ambulance got there I had delivered the baby and the afterbirth. It was a beautiful thing!
Watched both my kids hatch and 2 of my grand kids at the request of my daughter. Her husband was a puss. The best experience you can have is watching your kids be delivered. I cut the cord on 4 and fully delivered the one. I was a medic up until 6 months ago.
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2017, 06:00:29 PM » |
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It's not for everyone Meathead. You gotta like doing it and be trained. Plus then you know what to expect. It's all good! But like I said, it's not for everyone.
As for my son in law, he almost passed out..
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2017, 07:14:16 PM » |
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I could probably take the visuals of childbirth (if I absolutely had to), but I could not take the noise.
I'd be the guy wearing the shooters muffs.
Hey, can you keep it down, we're trying to work here.
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2017, 07:27:28 PM » |
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Heh, I'm VERY squeamish (I won't eat anything that has a bone or is a recognizable or named body part (No t-bone steaks, fried chicken, chicken wings, etc, just can't do it) , don't even like SEEING raw meat) but I was in the room for all 4 of my kids deliveries, and all of 'em were c-sections. (I've got pics of the triplets being cut out. Wanna see 'em?  ) Normally that kind of thing would bother the hell out of me, but at those moments, in those circumstances, didn't bother me at all. Teams of wild horses wouldn't have been able to drag me away from that room at that time. |
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2017, 07:38:37 PM » |
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Was present for the birth of both of mine. Was the best experience of my life. Wasn't so good for the wife, took 148 stitches to put her back in operating order on the second baby. Asked the doc to take up a couple of extra stitches. I've been paying for that request for over thirty years.  |
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2017, 09:59:39 PM » |
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Hey Serk wanna go huntin? Seriously, getting up to your elbows in blood in an elk's gut with the strong smell of hot blood will toughen up your squemishness. I almost puked when dissecting a frog in grade school. Hunting, first rabbits & squirrels then big game cured that. More recently, butchering five deer in a hunting ranch production operation instills a respect for the animals and the harvest. Made me feel like having a ceremony for the spirits of the deer ala the Indians in Dances with Wolves - a ceremonial bite of raw liver.
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2017, 05:24:33 AM » |
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Getting off topic, but it's interesting so... For a guy with a half dozen full gun safes, people are often surprised to hear I've never gone hunting. I wouldn't mind trying it, I have no moral problem with shooting an animal, no omnivore should, but I don't know that I could clean the animal and dress it. I just don't. (Disclaimer, this is in a casual situation. If my kids were starving and I HAD to do it to provide for them? No question I'd do it with no hesitation.) And on the original topic, and then there's this poor girl (Too bad her dad wasn't Darth Vader!) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ella-the-baby-born-in-an-elevator-and-named-after-it-8699935.html |
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2017, 06:11:37 AM » |
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I hunted deer with a buddy of mine in the northern lower of Michigan for years. We took a bunch of deer. In the 30+ years we did this, and 50+ deer later, he never gutted a one he shot. I'd do it but he couldn't even hold the legs. If he did he would start wreching. I'd laugh my ass off at him. In later years he shot, I waited for a few, got up and walked to where he was at. There it was, a very nice buck. I stood there for a few when he said: " well"? I said: "well what"? He said: "aren't you gonna gut it"? I said: "nope, I've gutted all the deer up here between you and I, this one is on you". "F... that he said, this SOB can stay right here"! He was pissed off and started to walk away.  It was about 1/2 mile back to the truck, I let him go. Then I gutted the deer. There was snow on the ground so it made dragging it out of the woods easier by myself. When I got back to the truck he was hot. He wouldn't even help me load it in the truck. He was so mad we never hunted together again. We remained friends but the relationship changed. I guess it was my fault. The bad part, he passed away 3 weeks ago and that whole incident was never discussed or resolved. |
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Getting off topic, but it's interesting so... For a guy with a half dozen full gun safes, people are often surprised to hear I've never gone hunting. I wouldn't mind trying it, I have no moral problem with shooting an animal, no omnivore should, but I don't know that I could clean the animal and dress it. I just don't. (Disclaimer, this is in a casual situation. If my kids were starving and I HAD to do it to provide for them? No question I'd do it with no hesitation.) And on the original topic, and then there's this poor girl (Too bad her dad wasn't Darth Vader!) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ella-the-baby-born-in-an-elevator-and-named-after-it-8699935.htmlIts funny how 2 people can be so opposite. I been up to my eyeballs in blood & guts since I was a kid. Never bothered me I the least. Even gut shot moose didn't bother me. But I don't even watch them draw blood. If its not an emergency I don't want to see it. When I was 14 I crashed on a Suzuki 90. Eventually had knee surgery. Watching a live person getting cut open is too much for me. |
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2017, 09:17:09 AM » |
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Watching a live person getting cut open is too much for me.
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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2017, 09:26:48 AM » |
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Watching a live person getting cut open is too much for me.
Watching a dead one ain't much better but, there is a lot less screaming. Funny you say that... For the delivery of the triplets, they needed to cut my wife open a little more to reach in and grab the 3rd baby, and they cut into a part that they evidently hadn't anesthetized. (They referred to it later as hitting a "hot spot.") Surgeons do NOT like it when their patient suddenly starts screaming and flopping around on the operating table. They do not like that AT ALL. The sweet lady lead OB-GYN that was leading the surgery team barked an order to the anesthesiologist that would have made Mattis jump to and follow her command NOW. "PUT HER OUT! _NOW_!" The anesthesiologist popped something into the IV line right quick and my wife immediately relaxed and became oblivious to all that was happening, mercifully. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2017, 09:42:05 AM » |
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Watching a live person getting cut open is too much for me.
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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2017, 11:05:02 AM » |
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Before I left LE I took part 16 autopsies. So deer, were nothing. You never get used to an autopsy but you get numb to what goes on. You also know what to expect. Age of a victim also matters, at least it did to me.
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2017, 01:35:58 PM » |
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The anesthesiologist popped something into the IV line right quick and my wife immediately relaxed and became oblivious to all that was happening, mercifully. I need to know more about that. Is it available? Does it have to be black market? Must be careful of amount? |
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The anesthesiologist popped something into the IV line right quick and my wife immediately relaxed and became oblivious to all that was happening, mercifully. I need to know more about that. Is it available? Does it have to be black market? Must be careful of amount? I'm guessing it was most likely Propofol, which is commonly found if you're a surgeon, don't know that I'd want any that came off the black market though, ya' need to be VERY careful with the amount, it's what killed Michael Jackson. It's also been proposed to use for lethal injection executions but due to it's extreme popularity for surgical usage, they're afraid if they started using it for executions political pressures would cut off the medical supply as well. It's creamy white and causes you to not only black out but have a memory hold from immediately before it's administered, often called "Milk of Amnesia." I know... Your comment was tongue in cheek, and I had to be all literal about it. It's a gift I have. |
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The anesthesiologist popped something into the IV line right quick and my wife immediately relaxed and became oblivious to all that was happening, mercifully. I need to know more about that. Is it available? Does it have to be black market? Must be careful of amount? I'm guessing it was most likely Propofol, which is commonly found if you're a surgeon, don't know that I'd want any that came off the black market though, ya' need to be VERY careful with the amount, it's what killed Michael Jackson. It's also been proposed to use for lethal injection executions but due to it's extreme popularity for surgical usage, they're afraid if they started using it for executions political pressures would cut off the medical supply as well. It's creamy white and causes you to not only black out but have a memory hold from immediately before it's administered, often called "Milk of Amnesia." I know... Your comment was tongue in cheek, and I had to be all literal about it. It's a gift I have. See, you are unique after all. |
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... ya' need to be VERY careful with the amount, it's what killed Michael Jackson. It's also been proposed to use for lethal injection executions
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2017, 06:14:16 PM » |
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See, you are unique after all. I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake. I am the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. (Quote stolen from Fight Club)  Well, maybe then I should just learn to put up with the boisterous objections and directions. I have a over the counter solution for ya' for that issue:  |
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One word of advice when standing beside the delivery room: Take your wedding ring off for when the wife squeezes your left hand, it hurts like heck when she crushes your wedding ring into your fingers while she has contractions. Yah, I am a wuss but never said anything at the time. I did almost pass out though with the after-birth. I can handle gutting a deer, but not seeing that afterwards come out of the wife.
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We used midwives for two of our kids' births. The birth of my daughter was particularly memorable. The beds they used had these big rubber 'sheets' on them with an edge all around. I thought it strange, but didn't say anything. Well, let me tell you. I discovered what they were for after the last push. I've never seen that much blood in one place. I won't say that I got woozy, but I was certainly off my game for the rest of the day.....
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We used midwives for two of our kids' births. The birth of my daughter was particularly memorable. The beds they used had these big rubber 'sheets' on them with an edge all around. I thought it strange, but didn't say anything. Well, let me tell you. I discovered what they were for after the last push. I've never seen that much blood in one place. I won't say that I got woozy, but I was certainly off my game for the rest of the day.....
Seeing what our women are capable of, and what they go through during pregnancy has definitely strengthened my respect for them. I know I wouldn't be who I am today without them...
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