[ Week of Brevity: Day Two, Take Two
Just to remind everyone, the challenge is this: A week of topics that I have a strong opinion on, limited to one paragraph (No more than 7 sentences). All of my responses to comments must be one sentence. ]
The Midget Childbirth Experience
Did you know that when you have a Cesarian Section delivery, while they numb you from the waist down, you still have feeling? Sure, there's no pain from the scalpel cutting through your lower stomach and then through your actual uterus, but that hole they cut isn't very big. Much like the vagina, the opening that they cut in you needs to do some stretching, allowing for two different sets of doctor's hands which maneuver the baby out of your body. I was crying on the operating table that I could feel what was going on to the chorus of voices explaining that there was no way that I could feel anything. But I felt hands inside of my body, manipulating Midget so that she could make her "unnatural" entrance into this world. A huge curtain across my midsection kept me from looking down at the action, not that I would have wanted to see what was going on in the first place. In the end, after all of my hysterics, the final sound in the room was laughter from the doctors and nurses as I whipped off the little cap they'd stuck on Midget's miniature dome and declared: "She's a redhead!"