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To: Gauguin who wrote (41015)	11/4/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I got to watch Spouse give birth. (Come to think of it, we're gonna rent that tape in a coupla months again.) It looked like nooooo picnic. Maybe it's the getting induced - but Spouse (who is a strong person in heart and body) was absolutely convinced that an epidural was a Good Thing pretty much as soon as Real Labor kicked in. I have video of happy smiling Spouse talking ... a contraction hits, confused look, the breathing thing ... a Demon Woman hurls curses at me for taping this... (it's kinda hard to watch - this isn't an ache, nossirree, she's in Real Pain) it fades, Spouse kinda goes "where was I?"... she's sitting, talking, happy. But after a few hours of that the time in between isn't happy any more. It's more like "I don't think I can take much more of this". I hope that since the pilot hole has been punched, Tom will slide out easier. I watched him kick and jostle Spouse's Uter-O-Lantern last night. It's a lot like watching a distant thunderstorm. "Ooooh! Didja see that one?"

To: Gauguin who wrote (41015)	11/4/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I thought I told you what giving birth feels like already. It feels like someone took a six-inch diameter wooden stake with a very sharp end, sharp like a pencil just out of the sharpener, but much, much bigger in diameter, and set it in the ground, and then picked you up and impaled you on it between your legs, and left you suspended in mid-air like that. Yep. Maybe just four or five inch diameter, I could be exaggerating. This was when Nick was born, he weighted almost 9 pounds (8 pounds 11 1/2 oz) and was almost too big to be born naturally, we came breathtakingly close to needing an emergency caesarean section, I was instructed to push really hard because they thought he was stuck. By the time it really got bad, it was almost over, and my sister was helping me, she's been a labor and delivery room nurse for about 20 years. And Nick had a really big black and blue bruise on his forehead, so it was no picnic for him, either.