Friday, June 17, 2005

one more, i think my eyes were closed

Let me set the scene for you: it's early-ish (just before 10) and I'm flipping through the TV to get to one of many all-news networks. While I was "channel surfing" when The Baby Story caught my eye. Let me rephrase that, it didn't so much catch my eye as much as it simultaneously horrified/disgusted/and relieved me that I'll never have to pass something the size of a watermelon through a hole the size of a lemon. You might think the slimy grey-blue creature that this woman passed through her vagina was the source of the horror and disgust, but you'd be wrong. What was truly disturbing about this birth was that while the baby was half-way out of the mom's hoo-ha, the doctor decides to pause and awkwardly make the baby wave! to! the! camera! While not having a vagina means I can't fully understand the beauty [read: excruciating pain] of childbirth, I can still empathies with the fact that having a doctor stop your birth while passing the baby's torso for a photo-op would be blinding with both pain and rage. I should have taken down the doctors name - I don't think I'd want him checking me for a hernia. Say Cheese.

12 Comments:

Blogger steph said...

Thanks for effectively re-setting my biological clock. I'll be postponing that particular event. Umm, eww, ow, and other weird noises.

10:34 AM  
Anonymous tricia said...

Women watching those shows is the equivalent of a man watching another man get repeatedly kicked in the "fruit basket"!

11:14 AM  
Blogger kitkat said...

Hoo-ha. Nice.

2:40 PM  
Blogger Clarke said...

Hoo-Ha, one of your best sayings yet!!!

11:20 PM  
Anonymous cowin said...

ya ryan i was glad you said hoo-ha cuz thats for sure the best word to say.

7:24 PM  
Anonymous cowin said...

now for the doctor that stopped and waves the babys arms. to me i think thats really wierd, REALLY WIERD. what kind of doctor would do something like that? if i was the mother of the baby i would punch him in the face after for sure. im pretty sure if i were a female i would just want the baby out at the time.

7:27 PM  
Anonymous Tyla said...

HOLY STINK! ooowwwww... if that were me I'd be real upset.I'm already freaked and questioning the idea of having baby's... yeah... this didn't help. Thanx Ry.

9:18 PM  
Blogger michelleandrea said...

i think it's kinda funny. the baby was probably stuck there for the moment anyway, there wasn't anything the doctor could do really. the mom needed to push. yeah it's painful obviously, but that doctor is a riot! could you imagine looking back ten years from now and seeing your baby waving at you straight outta the sack? i think i'd die laughing. especially if it was on television. classic...and classy.

12:41 AM  
Anonymous Trinder said...

10 bucks says that this family is on dr phil in about 10 years.

3:00 PM  
Anonymous Mikey Hamilton said...

eeww

6:40 PM  
Anonymous caitlyn @ camp said...

Are you an Idiot?
really! You know I read your blog, and you know child birth is a really touchy subject for me.
uhhhh...


at any rate, maine is wicked.
you should email me and tell me how things are going. How is moxy's?

7:41 PM  
Blogger Beau said...

what's with comparing orifices and things that pass through them to fruits? you're making it sound far too delicious to be disgusting.

9:25 AM  

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