Our Rube Goldberg contraption of a summer plan just about has all the pieces in place. Michelle's mom, Elayne, is just about ready to drive Michelle's car back to Nova Scotia, and her friend Wayne arrived by plane yesterday. He's pretty excited about the whole trip. It's going to be weird in a few days to have "just" the six of us (plus the two dogs) in the house. I'm going to have to get off my ass and start doing dishes again.
I realized last night when telling this story again to Wayne that I forgot to mention it in my retelling of the story of Daniel's birth. Right after Daniel was born, the doctor had cleaned him up a little bit and given him to Michelle to hold. She then walked back around in front of Michelle and said very calmly, "Michelle, you are not going to believe this."
For about a half-second, my heart froze. My gut was telling me that Dr. Bradford is about to tell us she sees another head coming out. I looked at her half-kidding and shook my finger, "Do NOT even think about saying the word 'twins'". She said, "Oh no no no, nothing like that, I was just going to say that Michelle had a perfect birth, no tearing, no complications." Michelle had worried so much about things like that, I guess the doctor wanted to share a sense of relief with her.
I told the doctor that "you are not going to believe this" is most definitely on the top ten of the list of things you do not want to hear during a birth experience.
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To be fair, the birth was over at that point ... heh.
Posted by: Polerand on July 25, 2003 04:53 PMI couldn't imagine pushing out another head at that moment!
Posted by: Felicity on July 25, 2003 06:37 PM