Vraille Darkfang
First Post
Yep, my sister almost beat a pregnant woman with her bare hands.
Of course, haing just had her baby 48 hours previously (and 1 month prematurly) she was a bit tired to go through with it.
And seeing as her baby had liver, lung, and was being force fedthrough a tube in it's nose, she was a little bit more concerned about getting to her baby as soon as possible than re-enacting a Jerry Springer moment. (The baby's fine now, liver, lungs up to speed & sucking down bottles every 3 hours. He just got to go home today; which is why I'm here at my keyboard and not at a hospital on the other side of the state).
What drove this young woman to consider taking her new level in barbarian rather than mother? The woman was smoking a ciggarette. In fact every time we went into the hospital, we saw here standing outsside lightinng up, or on her way to the smoking area outside. Fo my sisiter (who did everything she could to try to get her baby to full term) she could not believe any mother would do that to her baby. She was so furious I thougth she migh tgo up to the woman & give here an earful, bu tseeing as how she narrowly avoiding having to be given a blood transfusion, she was a bit tired to go 8 rounds.
Now, I often work with people with disabilites & mental retardation. I know what momma's who smoke to to their babies. It's not pretty. In fact, in this case....
Apperently, they had this woman walking the halls to try to jump start her labor (that's how they do it). The staff couldn't do a damn thing if she wanted to go out & have a smoke. It's her right to smoke if she so chooses. She so chose.
Now, as I'm leaving the hospital for the last time, I see a woman in a wheelchair crying. It's the smoking lady. The nurse is telling her how here baby has a low birth wieght, some deformities, & his brain appears to be underdeveloped. She's hysterical as the nurse is bascially telling her how screwed up her baby is. She says she needs a moment. Wheels herself outside & lights up a cigarette. I work in a place where I see the long term effects of stupidity. And how that stupidity affects others. When that other is a baby & when you know what the baby'e life is going to become....
It hurts. It really hurts. So, if you are going to have a baby. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF & THE BABY. Don't drink, don't smoke. Go to the doctor, take all the multivitamins & junk they force down you. Anything you can do to increase the chance of a healthy baby will pay dividends for decades to come.
That goes for you to dad's to be too. DON'T SMOKE AROUND THE PREGNANT LADY. IN fact, it would be best if you minimize her inhalation of smoke particulates & you quit too, or at least shower & wear fresh clothes.
I've seen the babies of smokers & drinkers (many are OK, but so many have so much wrong). 9 months on your part can save decades on your child's.
End public service anouncement.
Of course, haing just had her baby 48 hours previously (and 1 month prematurly) she was a bit tired to go through with it.
And seeing as her baby had liver, lung, and was being force fedthrough a tube in it's nose, she was a little bit more concerned about getting to her baby as soon as possible than re-enacting a Jerry Springer moment. (The baby's fine now, liver, lungs up to speed & sucking down bottles every 3 hours. He just got to go home today; which is why I'm here at my keyboard and not at a hospital on the other side of the state).
What drove this young woman to consider taking her new level in barbarian rather than mother? The woman was smoking a ciggarette. In fact every time we went into the hospital, we saw here standing outsside lightinng up, or on her way to the smoking area outside. Fo my sisiter (who did everything she could to try to get her baby to full term) she could not believe any mother would do that to her baby. She was so furious I thougth she migh tgo up to the woman & give here an earful, bu tseeing as how she narrowly avoiding having to be given a blood transfusion, she was a bit tired to go 8 rounds.
Now, I often work with people with disabilites & mental retardation. I know what momma's who smoke to to their babies. It's not pretty. In fact, in this case....
Apperently, they had this woman walking the halls to try to jump start her labor (that's how they do it). The staff couldn't do a damn thing if she wanted to go out & have a smoke. It's her right to smoke if she so chooses. She so chose.
Now, as I'm leaving the hospital for the last time, I see a woman in a wheelchair crying. It's the smoking lady. The nurse is telling her how here baby has a low birth wieght, some deformities, & his brain appears to be underdeveloped. She's hysterical as the nurse is bascially telling her how screwed up her baby is. She says she needs a moment. Wheels herself outside & lights up a cigarette. I work in a place where I see the long term effects of stupidity. And how that stupidity affects others. When that other is a baby & when you know what the baby'e life is going to become....
It hurts. It really hurts. So, if you are going to have a baby. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF & THE BABY. Don't drink, don't smoke. Go to the doctor, take all the multivitamins & junk they force down you. Anything you can do to increase the chance of a healthy baby will pay dividends for decades to come.
That goes for you to dad's to be too. DON'T SMOKE AROUND THE PREGNANT LADY. IN fact, it would be best if you minimize her inhalation of smoke particulates & you quit too, or at least shower & wear fresh clothes.
I've seen the babies of smokers & drinkers (many are OK, but so many have so much wrong). 9 months on your part can save decades on your child's.
End public service anouncement.
