10 Things I've done meme

[valarltd]

From the whole F'list

Ten things I've done that you (probably) haven't. Stories available on request.

1) Lost my footing rappelling, flipped upside down and hit the cliff.
2) sprained my shoulder doing it.
3) Did three out of four labors with no pain meds at all, and the fourth with only an analgesic
4) Delivered a baby totally alone: no husband, no doctor, no nurse, no midwife.
5) Been a medical textbook photograph
6) crocheted with latigo leather
7) cooked a whole dragon
8) Been burned by a celebrity's cigarette
9) made my own sex toys
10) wrote fanfiction based on a social studies textbook in third grade.

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[watergal.livejournal.com]

4) Delivered a baby totally alone: no husband, no doctor, no nurse, no midwife.

Sounds like no fun to me!

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

It was a bit scary. I rang for the nurse as soon as I realized she was arriving, but they were too slow.

By the time they picked up the intercom (which they did with reasonable speed), I was at "YEARGH! stage. By the time they got to the room (less than 3 minutes after I'd rung), I was tossing back the blankets yelling "She's stuck!"

She was too. She was entirely out of the uterus, so I had nothing to push against, but her legs were still in me. The nurses showed up in time to help her out, cut the cord and listen to me swear a lot.

Dang it, the words "Deliver precipitously" mean just that. And after 3 other kids, my vagina is closer to a waterslide than a narrow channel.