Please Wish My Family Some Luck

[Soylent Brice]

my wife is going in for a c-section tomorrow. this will make child number 3 for us.

this will be our last. she's getting her tubes tied.

i always get nervous, really nervous, the day before. i'm cool hand luke every day leading up to it, but for some reason i fall apart on the last day. by the day of i'm in tears (of joy and panic).

this also means that for the next week or two you won't see my short and lacking-of-substance posts. (i use self degradation as a form of humor, which in turn is a self preservation and centering technique.)

please wish my family some DU love, and some DU luck. you are, after all, my second family.


P.S. - someone please send smoke signals if prosecutions of the * crime family begin whilst i'm decommissioned.

[ZombieHorde]

1. *Wishes luck*

[Soylent Brice]

4. thanks horde,

and no, you can't eat my baby.

BAD ZOMBIE!!!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. What a short and lacking of substance post.....

KIDDING!!! Wishing you and yours the very best of luck in the next few days... and if we find Rove in manacles in the next couple of days smoke signals there will be.

[Soylent Brice]

11. smoke signals, the wicked witch spelling it out in the air, anything.

thank you!!

[Demoiselle]

3. Luck, blessings, joy to you and yours...

And go ahead and cry, it's good for you.

[Soylent Brice]

13. i always feel better afterwards. very cathartic.

[AndyA]

5. Sending good wishes to you and yours!

Hoping all goes well, and your family is all together at home soon. :thumbsup:

[Soylent Brice]

20. thank you!!!

i'm looking forward to the time off also. it'll be nice to spend time with everyone. first "vacation" in 3 yrs. HA!

[Solly Mack]

6. Good Luck! Calm nerves! Speedy healing and recovery to your wife!

and an early - Welcome to the World! - to the new one.

[Soylent Brice]

18. thanks!

recovery will likely be brutal. 3rd c-section, and i have a 4 yr old and a 3 yr old. it gets hectic in the house.

they're like monkeys on acid. i love it!!!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. best wishes

for you, your wife, and the baby!

[Soylent Brice]

21. .

:hug:

[Donnachaidh]

8. luck - and just don't watch when they give her the epidural

My DH says he almost passed out at that, because he was looking through a glass partition when they did mine. I probably would have passed out, if I'd been able to see it. He got past that, and wasn't phased at all watching them do the other stuff.

You'll both be fine. Think of the new fingers and toes you can count together. And watching the baby's first REAL stretch after being cramped so long is a wonder in itself.

[Soylent Brice]

22. they've never let me in while they do it before.

they always bring me in right after they do the epidural.

my favorite part is when they place them under the big mac warmer.

[dysfunctional press]

9. isn't a vasectomy generally easier than having tubes tied?

or is it being done in conjunction with the c-section...?

when we decided on no kids- i went the vasectomy route...mine happened to be done in conjunction with a cystoscopy that turned up cancer in my bladder.

and btw- good luck with all that...:hi:

[Soylent Brice]

10. in the doctor's infinite wisdom...

suggested that it may be easier that if she's already going to be opened up that he might as well do it when he's in there.

:shrug:

[sharp_stick]

14. That's it, as long as they're in there anyway

it's no real extra problem to do the tubal ligation. After each of my two (until now) were born by C-section the doc's asked my wife if she wanted the ligation. She got kind of pissed off at them when they asked for the third time, probably afraid I'd tell them to go ahead while she was enjoying the drip. ;-)

[CottonBear]

12. Good luck and best wishes to you all! n/t

[yellerpup]

15. Congratulations and good luck!

How wonderful for you and Mrs. Soylent Brice. Lots of love to the whole family. :grouphug:

[Soylent Brice]

24. we'll name her soylent baby. j/k

thank you!!

[yellerpup]

28. ...

:rofl: Don't you dare!

[Infomaniac]

16. Early congrats on the birth of your new child.

Many blessings for you and yours.

[Soylent Brice]

25. thank you for the good vibes!!!

[sharp_stick]

17. I'm the same way only it's the drive to the hospital

everything was fine until it was time to drive to the hospital, then I started to get nervous for no real reason.

Enjoy the birth of your third child, my wife is trying to convince me that she wants a third one and I'll probably relent but it will be the last one... That's what I said after number 2 but now I've got the name of a urologist on the cell phone, and as soon as the doc tells me that #3 is looking good I'm making the call.

Have a great day and don't forget to keep your other two kids in the loop as you go.

[Soylent Brice]

26. we signed up for the big brother/sister class at the hospital.

it was 2 weekends ago. it was a lot of fun. we've been making sure we involve them with everything. picking out baby clothes, stroller shopping, etc.

my daughter is VERY excited. my son lives in an alternate reality though. i know he knows there's a baby on the way, but he's the kind of person who wouldn't notice if an earthquake shook the house apart.

it'll be interesting to say the least.

[sharp_stick]

30. My daughter was so excited to get a baby brother

that she could hardly contain herself and she didn't want to wear anything other than her "big sister" shirt for over a week. She was only 2 1/2 so we had to be careful letting her play with him at first but now they're almost inseperable.

Those brother sister classes are a great addition to modern maternity care.

[corpseratemedia]

19. congratulations on your third

progressive!!:party:

:toast:

[Soylent Brice]

27. thanks lurker!!!

lol

[Hekate]

23. Best wishes to all the Soylent Brice family, good health, speedy recovery.

:hug:

Hekate

[tom_paine]

29. All the best to you and your Soylent Brice. May everything go smoothly

and your new child be as happy and healthy as can be.

:toast:

[schlarmie]

31. Hugs all around to you and your beautiful family.

Welcome to the world baby child. :grouphug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. Good luck and the panic is normal to be honest

should be fine...

And congrats dad

You know what comes next, so no use in telling you... ah the sleepless nights