Old Wives Tales Welcome!

I could always tell the day I would deliver. I would wake up soooo energized and would proceed to have the greatest day - mentally and physically! When my last son was born, I was out mowing the back yard at 3pm and delivered the little bundle at 7pm.

Good Luck!

This really has nothing to do with inducing labor but these old wives tales crack me up none the less.
 
Let me introduce you to Osama Bin Grandma, the queen of old wives tales. When I was pregnant, she spent considerable time at our house. I was pregnant in the summer of 94 when we had a heat wave going on and we had no air conditioning. It was extremely hot and even worse when you're pregnant because you feel hotter. So there I am, laying in the basement because it was cooler down there with the fan on a chair right next to me and a spray bottle of water to mist myself. Osama Bin Grandma comes down there, sees me laying there with the fan on me and says...

OBG: "Your baby is going to come out deformed with the fan on you like that!"

When my son was born, it got even worse. We had a cat at the time and she would freak out about it. She refused to sleep in the same room with the cat and she made me make sure that the cat wasn't in the baby's room because the cat "will steal the babies breath away". I breast-fed my son. All of a sudden, OBG was an expert at breast-feeding even though she never breast-fed a child in her life. She was watching me nurse my son and she says...

OBG: "I don't think you're doing it right."

Me: "How do you figure?"

OBG: "Because your nipple doesn't look right."

Me: "How's my nipple supposed to look?"

OBG: "It's supposed to be big and bushy."

Me: "I don't know what a big bushy nipple looks like but I sure as hell don't want one!"

Hell, that was a good 12 years ago and I still laugh maniacally at that one. []

[sm=rotfl.gif]Meilani, you are too funny!

Ron, Lately all I've had time for are my son's Bionicle movies and some old reruns of Pokemon. Uh Oh!

 
That should make for an interesting looking kid.
 

I don't think I could breast feed because I wouldn't handle the criticism as well as Meilani did. So, I'll keep my bushy nipples to myself.
 

Jumping Jacks, perhaps, heck, I don't know....didn't work for me.
My son was born January 1st, and hubby wanted it before midnight for the tax break....ha[8|]
 
I would love for him to shove one through his behind just for the experience........I would never do it again[]

I have a friend who decided that she needed the tax write off from having her baby on Dec. 31st instead of on January 3rd when he was due. She drank some olive oil and jumped on a trampoline. It either worked or the baby was just ready.

Ah, I see, I didn't do the olive oil, that is why it didn't work.......[]

Oh, that reminds me of one - Mexican food! But try that one at your own hazard . . .

So ... two days gave gone by since the OP.  Are you still waiting??? [][]
 
Joyce

Yup!  I'm still here.  Had a Doctor's appointment on Thursday.  She tried the stripping membranes thing, but it hasnt worked so far.  I'm hoping for this weekend.  My niece decided to take my son for the weekend, to stay with her.  Her BF is out of town so her and a friend are going to sit around with Kale and play video games for 3 days.  So if I go in this weekend, I won't even have to call for a babysitter.  (she was going to come over anyway)

I walked around for about 5 1/2 hours after my appointment yesterday and for a couple today as well.  So far nothing.  Is this candle lighting worthy?  I am soooooo uncomfortable. 

On the upside, doc said I was 1 cm dialated and that my cervix was nice and soft and quite short.  Also tilted the right way, so here's hoping.  Wish me luck.

Ron I missed your last post on the previous page.  You crack me up.  BTW, I love your new avitar.  Shadow looks so much more huskyish in that one.  

I'm tellin ya, make plans for this weekend! I mean how many times have those of you with kids had to cancel something because the kids got sick? They KNOW, they sense a disturbance in the Force. Everytime my husband and I even discuss sitting down to watch a movie with a glass of wine . . .one or the other won't go to bed, or throws up or something. 

Actually we have tickets to watch our local college hockey team play on Saturday night.  BF won them at work sooooo.....

Waaahhhh!!!!   It  didn't work.  Still pregnant.  POOO