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by Turk » September 15th, 2009, 11:42 pm
Catching up; here's a few more boring baby anecdotes. The first one, we got to the hospital around midnight. Mrs. Turk says, "This is starting to hurt. Can I get some drugs?" Nurse says, "Oh, no sister, too late for that. It's go time, bomb-bay doors are open, and by the way, you're not allowed to push, the doctor isn't here yet." WTF?!? Because the LAST place you'd look for a doctor is in a HOSPITAL!! So the first Turk chick is hatched 35 mins after we get there, with the car still parked in the fire lane with the flashers on and the doors open.
Second time, we knew twins were on the way, so the quacks gave us a deadline, and said if the chicks didn't hatch by then, they were going to go in after them. (It was a Friday; couldn't wreck someone's three-day weekend with this unpredictable baby arrival stuff). So they did the pitocin thing, and the epidural, and Mrs. Turk is going "Wow, this is so much easier than the first one! I can't feel a thing!" And out comes two baby Turks at 8.0 lbs and 8.1 lbs. A grizzled, battle-scarred, veteran nurse said she'd been there 20 years and couldn't remember a bigger pair of twins arriving through the regular delivery chute.
The youngest Turk came out at 10 lb 15 oz, Mrs. Turk had the flu when she went in, and they screwed up the epidural. No good stories from that, but it was all ok after a week or two.
"The idea is that you are better today than you were yesterday."