On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Martha Bartter wrote:
> >only her second contraction, he cranks the gravity up to maximum, and the
> >baby 'pops out of her like a watermelon seed.' Which Heinlein described
> >as being a somewhat startling, but to all evidences painless experience.
> >
> >-nalo
> >
> But HE never had a baby. A few weeks ago, my son "delivered" a baby
> via telephone (he's a 911 operator), and let me listen to the tape.
> A good deal of the instruction to the grandmother, who was delivering
> the child (the ambulance arrived about the time the kid let out its
> first yell) was how to prevent the baby from emerging too quickly
> and tearing the mother. (Sigh. wish my pediatrician had known that
> trick....)
NH: And that, presumably, was a woman whose womb was fully dilated. If
memory serves, Heinlein's character had only just started having
contractions.
What an amazing experience for your son! (Probably pretty mind-blowing
for the mother, grandmother and baby too, huh?) :)
-nalo
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