In Response #2

In response…..

Ree: the pilots can’t actually see the passengers while they are flying because the cockpit door must be closed and locked at all times (I think in Europe they equip the airplane with cameras so the pilots can see everything that goes on). BUT Mr Hyphen could hear the wailing of the baby. Later that night at dinner the flight attendants snickered and told the story about how they’d been serving the mom margaritas the whole flight, while she was feeding the baby. Mr Hyphen is a breast feeding in public advocate… he likes for women to feel free to pull out a boob any time, anywhere.

Jill: I’ve actually read in the past year that the U.S. is the only country that’s so freaky about drinking liquor while pregnant and breast feeding. Most other countries think wine while pregnant is perfectly fine. My mother-in-law swears that her OB instructed her to have a glass of wine daily while pregnant to help her sleep… and she did. I’m glad I’m done breast feeding, because I hated wanting to have a drink and having people look at me like I was the worst parent ever.

Beth: (this is a response from a comment I left on moo’smoo about a pregnancy question---not something that I posted here) My rant about my OB office not wanting to see me until I was 10-12 weeks pregnant (the first pregnancy) isn’t that exciting. It’s just that aren’t there like a million people donating to March Of Dimes every year who are hoping to ‘prevent birth defects’? How can we POSSIBLY stop birth defects if we aren’t given care in the first 3 months? Are they insinuating that nothing bad happens to a fetus during the first 12 weeks? Only later???? Aren’t we taught here in the U.S. that prenatal care is absolutely essential in a healthy pregnancy? Well… wouldn’t you think the first trimester is very important? Do they assume that every pregnant woman out there is privy to the do’s and don’ts of being pregnant and what they can safely ingest during pregnancy (ie: prescription drugs, OTC cold medicine)? If WE were all educated on this… there would be no need for THEM. Why is it that during the last trimester you have to be seen by your OB every few weeks… but they don’t even want to see you the first trimester? I felt like during the last trimester, I had it all figured out and I knew what was going on… it was those first 12 weeks that I needed HELP figuring out what to do and where to go from there. I felt like they expect pregnant women to get online and research everything so they didn’t have to help us out (may be an HMO thing?). I think the first several weeks of a first pregnancy are when the woman might be the MOST needy. If you’re a midwife… I apologize. It would be like me working in IT and having a client call who’s system was down and me saying… great you work on it and get it going, call me in 10 weeks for an appointment. UM NO—you’re PAID to help me out. I’m just sayin’.