A Home Birth

So my sis had a baby at her home last night (on purpose...and by the way he was almost 9 lbs...ouch!) Way to go sis.  It is her 4th baby (technically 3rd pregnancy cause the first time around was twin girls) so her body seemed to know what it was doing.  She had him in water, I am guess a small pool or portable tub of some sort.  Anyways, I found this post about a home birth using a pool awhile ago and never really had a reason for posting it until today.  Watch it--don't worry you wont see a placenta or anything else scary and gross.  It made me cry.

Leo Hart from The Panic Room Videos on Vimeo.


So I ask you readers, "Would you ever do a home birth?"  My answer is Hell to the No for several reasons regarding my health and fear of pain. What is yours?

Laws of Parenting

Since I have been thinking quite a bit about the prospects of being a mother and the fact that I am an aunt to a zillion little kids and have tons of friends with wee ones, I found this post and found it quite humourous.

crappy laws of parenting, top 8 countdown...illustrated with crappy pictures™

I have two kids. This means that if one kid does x and the other one does y then I can conclude that 50% of all children do x and 50% of all children do y. This makes me a parenting expert.
Since I'm an expert, I've decided to start a new series called the Crappy Laws of Parenting based on my scientific research. Here is a countdown of the first eight laws. There are more. Tons more. But if I didn't stop at eight I'd never finish this post.
Crappy Law of Parenting #8 (belated poop warnings)

When a toddler spontaneously says something like "No Poops!" while in the pool or bathtub, it is not an accurate status update.  Poop has already been produced.
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Crappy Law of Parenting #7 (volume control)
When the phone rings, children will detect the level of importance and adjust their volume accordingly.
Telemarketer calls to get you to switch car insurance? Silence.
Husband calls to discuss dinner plans? Murmurs.
Friend calls to tell you a funny story? Slightly louder than inside voices. 
Family calls to tell you about a cousin's heart condition. Yelling. 
Work calls with concerns about your ability to work from home? Cacophonous shrieks. Deafening.
And so on.
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Crappy Law of Parenting #6 (naps are never safe)

If you've remembered to turn off your phone ringer during a nap, the doorbell will ring. Followed by loud knocking.
If you go to the door, it will be someone trying to sell you something you don't want. If you pretend to not be home, you'll find out later it was a friend bringing you chocolate and wine.  She tried to call you, but your ringer was off.
Either way, it wakes up the baby.

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Crappy Law of Parenting #5 (inappropriate art surfaces)
Dry-erase markers will be used on everything except the dry-erase board.
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Crappy Law of Parenting #4 (the swearing parrot)


They are very precise about pinpointing the very best words to repeat over and over.
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Crappy Law of Parenting #3 (video cameras and genius defection)


The presence of a video camera immediately eradicates any talent they were just demonstrating.


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Crappy Law of Parenting #2 (quiet destruction)
The moment you think "they sure are quiet" it is already too late.

You run, but you can't run fast enough.
However!
Sometimes, sometimes what you find in the quiet will not be what you were expecting.

Which brings me to my all-time favorite law because it is totally awesome...

For Rule #1 Click Here to read.

So moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandmas and grandpas, what rules can you add to this? (I don't need a crappy picture drawing to prove your point).
Happy Monday.

New Motherhood Part 2

 Image Via Stephanie Rausser

Okay so I got quite a few responses from my post on being a new mother and I like it.  The most common threads from the comments:

1. Never getting to do what I want when I want to do it

2. I can't take a nap when I want

What I want to know is when did you take naps before kids?  College maybe?  I guess that is one of the drawbacks to waiting to have kids cause I haven't taken a nap in years unless I took a day sick off of work.

As requested,  now I want to know the top reasons why being a mother is so great.  You could sway me either way so you better make it good! 

I love this post on Rock Star Diaries just shared today about her baby learning her first word. Now that to me would make it worth it! Check it out.

New Motherhood

 Image via Stephania Rausser, ps her work is amazing.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  Today I am thinking about new moms and babies.

I love it when I run into a new mother and I ask her how being a mother is going and she gives me this total look of panic and then continues to tell me how hard it is and gives me tons of advice on waiting till I am ready to have kids and to never let anyone pressure me into it. I find this refreshing and so true.  This situation has only happened to me twice out of I would say 50 close women in my life.  So many times women feel it is their job to always be put together, they can handle anything, and that being a mom is the...

Best thing in the world
Their calling in life....and they weren't complete before
They don't miss their jobs one bit
They love spending every second with a pooping and crying machine
etc.

So today I ask "What do you miss most about your life before you had a kid (s)?" Come on new moms I know you read my blog,  I have ways to track you so out with it.  No more blog stalking, I want a response.

Someday I Can Not Wait To Be a Mom

A friend of mine told me to watch this video on youtube and I just loved it. It is such a great way to capture the 9 months of pregnancy (luckily they left out all the sick parts like throwing up and a baby coming out of your you know where). This video is really sweet and I demand that you watch it or else you will be missing out.

I want to know how to do video like this so I can make one of these videos one day.