Did Not Finish will have to be Did Not Fail instead.
Hate to rain on everyone's DNF parade, but so far, the reviews for Duke Nukem Forever haven't been very nice...Case in point, IGN gave it a 5.5. Yeah...Maybe waiting over a decade wasn't worth it after all.:(
So you mean to tell me that spambots are from the depths of hell? Well that might explain alot. Even I wasn't that bad here on the forums back when I was known as pickle962.(though I did piss the shit out of most of y'all except for shakeycat, mish42, NoLonger)
I did something similar lately, though I don't have pictures. My little brother's PS3 controller had sticky buttons when he came over this past week, so I dismantled the bastard, cleaned the buttons and put it together again. That was the hard part, especially since it was a Sixaxis and it had two irritating little plastic pieces between the L1 and L2 and R1 and R2 buttons that just wouldn't fit. Finally, I got it in. I felt accomplished.
Andrew, it came up in conversation a few months ago, I think Mish was involved. I didn't make a big announcement upon the positive test - when it's easy to get pregnant, it doesn't ring as a huge success (though in retrospect, it was!)
Bruce, I am shocked my husband is more or less the same man he was before the birth. It's different to be in it, but to watch it as an inexperienced bystander, I can only imagine.
And the pooing - it's a sensation you have to go with to make things happen. There's enough diarrhea and loose bowels over the labour that I wasn't really concerned about laying out a cowpie. Plus when you have all sorts of unnamed things coming out, it doesn't matter so much that one does have a name!
Andrew, it came up in conversation a few months ago, I think Mish was involved. I didn't make a big announcement upon the positive test - when it's easy to get pregnant, it doesn't ring as a huge success (though in retrospect, it was!)
Bruce, I am shocked my husband is more or less the same man he was before the birth. It's different to be in it, but to watch it as an inexperienced bystander, I can only imagine.
And the pooing - it's a sensation you have to go with to make things happen. There's enough diarrhea and loose bowels over the labour that I wasn't really concerned about laying out a cowpie. Plus when you have all sorts of unnamed things coming out, it doesn't matter so much that one does have a name!
You didn't name everything that came out? Lady Foxworth, the greatest after birth a father could ever have.
Did the husband get to cut the cord? I was meant to, but Esmé decided to join in with the pooing and let loose before the end of labour, and as such I wasn't allowed, which rather upset me
No, it was just "fluid" and nothing else was given voice. Oh, and "baby", that one came out too
My husband shortened the cord, but didn't do the big cut. I don't think it was on the priority list that he get to do it. It might be related to the midwives collecting a cord blood sample that they did it themselves.
Well, congratulations are in order! Sorry I didn't say that first....I was just kinda shocked. I'm still a little... unnerved by childbirth and pregnancy since I have such a gigantic guilt trip about it. I wish your child the highest happiness and health! Boy or girl? Name?
Andrew, guilt trip? But you haven't even made babby yet? And thank you
It's a girl, Hannah Aurelia Danneffel. July 14, 4:35am, 8lb2.5oz, 21 inches, healthy and happy! It was a really easy pregnancy, I really had no complaints. I felt great pretty much the whole time (7/8ths ain't bad).
I had her at home, attended by two midwives, my doula, and my own husband Andrew (my "Androula"). Haven't left the house since. It wasn't easy, but you get through it and the prize at the end is pretty awesome. WOULD BIRTH AGAIN A++++
My issue is how little I share in the experience and how painful it is for the woman. I don't want Megan to have to go through the morning sickness, body changes (stretch marks, etc, her self-esteem is low enough already), the actual birth (which scares me more than anything), and the recovery period. During all of this, I am experiencing no pain. My contribution to this process is a little spurt at the very beginning. I don't like that. I feel guilty since I caused this.
And I know this isn't logical. Megan would agree to all of this if we were going to have a child, but.... it still makes me feel very horrible. Like a lazy bastard or something. It's stupid, but it's how I feel. Watching childbirth makes me squirm inside because of how difficult it looks. And I know that it's empowering for a lot of women. It still makes me feel like a horrible shit of a being.
Sometimes I think I'm maybe too empathetic for my own good. Or maybe I've heard too many horror stories from pregnancy. But.... you know what, it is horrible for most women, from everyone I've talked to. Sounds like you had a thoroughly above-average experience.
Oh and probably contributing is my growing disinterest in having children. It seems like a prison sentence to me.
I've always been curious about what it would be like to be pregnant, to give birth. It was an experience I very much wanted to have some day. I think the media is really negative about the whole process. I made a point to read and watch a lot of birth-positive materials, and talk to women I know (and hire one I didn't - my doula) about it too. I actually looked forward to the birth as a new experience, not as some dreadful D-Day.
I have so much I can say - I'll tell you everything if you want, just have a squalling baby upstairs now to tend to
And you DO have a job in all this too. My husband took over a bunch of chores when I was too tired, he made me food and let me lay about on the couch when I needed it. He has been so wonderful and supportive through everything - and I'm sure you would be too. Now that we have the baby, he's the one running around doing tasks while I lay about breastfeeding and napping, even though he's missing some sleep too. I don't know how I'd do this without him. Every woman needs such good support!
Well, I am always curious to hear people's stories. And you're right. If Megan got pregnant, I would probably overcompensate to help her out and I would do anything I could for her. But... it's not enough, for me. And I know it would be. It's a very visceral, non-cerebral response I have to this.
What I'm always curious about is the actual birth process. I've heard quite a bit about pregnancy, and it seems to be described much the same from woman to woman: mostly positive with some uncomfortable side effects, but the birth is always described differently. Sometimes it's a black pit of horror that they never want to experience again, and, others use it as a sort of apex of female power, but I'd love to hear more details. How would you describe it?
Birth was a very raw animal experience. You just have to let go and let it happen, let instincts take over.
Bear in mind that I didn't have typical prenatal care or a typical birth either. Many of the women you know and talk to probably have birthed in hospital, attended by a doctor/OB. Their prenatal care was probably by the same person, or in some impersonal clinic. I did my prenatal care with a midwife, who spends 45 minutes with me instead of the 10-15 an OB will give you, so I had a lot more time for information and support. I also had a homebirth, attended by midwives, my doula and my husband. So I probably felt more at home (since I was!), in control, and supported than someone who does it in hospital.
(I recall my aunt telling how a whole group of medical students checked her dilation during labour. 15 different hands in your vag will not help labour progress - talk about having power taken away!)
Birth itself though .. it's hard. It hurts. I'm in no rush to do it again, but I totally would. The moment the baby comes out, you get hit with oxytocin love hormones and any pain all goes away as you look at your prize. It's the most amazing high, it almost makes one forget the past 30 hours of labour. (This is something natural birth does well, ymmv on birth with drugs, I forget really)
The pain is concentrated into short stretches of time. It starts with 30 seconds out of every 10, then closes to 1 minute every 3 as things really get moving. If you add it up, it's not a 30 hour labour full of ow ow ow oh my god, it's 30 hours in which maybe 3 are painful. You get through it by moving, receiving rubs/counter-pressure from an assistant, and moaning.
It all is kind of empowering. To realize oneself as a raw human being, to be naked and making animal noises and not embarrassed in the slightest as a near-stranger pushes a warm washcloth to your perineum. I'm still so amazed that I did it, though in the moment there's no choice but to do it, no turning back.
If I may recommend anything - stick to natural-birth-positive reading. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth is an Excellent place to start. It has lots of encouraging natural birth stories, and then walks through the science of exactly why we are all very capable of giving birth naturally, and why it is also the best choice. Watch "The Business of Being Born", if only to see the few clips of natural births taking place at home.
And hire a doula. Yes they cost money, but know that there are some areas where you won't be much help to your wife. Men just aren't made to be birth partners, women are. Mine has been so excellent, I can't praise her enough for all she has done for me.
Awwwww, that's awesome Tanya!! Congratulations! Your baby girl is a tall one too I like it.
Babies are adorable, but I'm still quite a few years from thinking about having children. I work at a Boys and Girls Club part-time at the moment, and working there with a bunch of little kids makes me feel like a mom all the time. Little kids hang on me and hug me all day, and I think I get my fill of child clinginess with just that. Plus, when I talk about my age, a bunch of the kids say something like "My mom is younger than that!" or "My mom had me when she was....14!"
Craziness. I'm so glad your baby made it into the world happy and healthy, Tanya, and I wish you the BEST of luck fighting the sleep deprivation that comes with caring for a tiny newborn baby I'm sure you'll find much joy in watching your daughter grow into a woman!
Good work on forming babby! I've never really thought about what it's going to be like to have kids. I can barely afford to take care of myself, much less a tiny, constantly-pooping version of half of me. I'm sure you'll do fine though.
Auww, thanks Mish That sounds kind of sad, really .. something about kids having kids, it just isn't setting everyone up for success.
I'm surprised you recognize her length as being tall - it is, of course. She's just slightly longer than I was at birth, so I suspect she'll be 5'10" some day like me.
And we've been incredibly fortunate the past few nights that she is such a good sleeper at night. I'm sure it changes at some point, but for now I am fine with the cycle we're in (sleep 2-4 hours, feed 45 minutes, change diaper, snack, water, sleep .. repeat between 11pm and 10am)
Takeru - thanks to you too. Forming babby surprisingly easy! I don't think one really knows what it is like to have them until they are there. Plenty to learn every day as we go along.
I work at a Boys and Girls Club part-time at the moment, and working there with a bunch of little kids makes me feel like a mom all the time. Little kids hang on me and hug me all day, and I think I get my fill of child clinginess with just that.
I understand the feeling Mish. I work at a summer camp, and I looove the 6-9 age range. They are permanently excited and in love with you, unlike the you-are-so-lame-and-I-am-too-cool-to-do-anything teenagers. The little ones definitely awaken the maternal genes.
And congratulations Tanya! D'awww! Little ones are adorable! Of course I have the luxury of handing them back to their parents. (Look at how cute you are! You are adorable! Oh dear, you are upset. I think your mother would like you back now. Goodbye!) I wish you luck with your mini-person!
Your own little Mini-Me. I've heard tell that they're height at age 2 is pretty well exactly half of what it will end at. Not a bad way to estimate final height.
I also have heard talk of forgetting all about the whole child birthing experience as soon as the kid is born. I don't think that effect is limited to natural-births.
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Hate to rain on everyone's DNF parade, but so far, the reviews for Duke Nukem Forever haven't been very nice...Case in point, IGN gave it a 5.5. Yeah...Maybe waiting over a decade wasn't worth it after all.:(
Unfortunately 589 of those members are spambots.
So you mean to tell me that spambots are from the depths of hell? Well that might explain alot. Even I wasn't that bad here on the forums back when I was known as pickle962.(though I did piss the shit out of most of y'all except for shakeycat, mish42, NoLonger)
I'll admit, not my finest work, aesthetically...
But it gets the job done!
I did something similar lately, though I don't have pictures. My little brother's PS3 controller had sticky buttons when he came over this past week, so I dismantled the bastard, cleaned the buttons and put it together again. That was the hard part, especially since it was a Sixaxis and it had two irritating little plastic pieces between the L1 and L2 and R1 and R2 buttons that just wouldn't fit. Finally, I got it in. I felt accomplished.
Especially with all the pooing involved. When Vienna was in labour there was a midwife just for wiping her backside.
Bruce, I am shocked my husband is more or less the same man he was before the birth. It's different to be in it, but to watch it as an inexperienced bystander, I can only imagine.
And the pooing - it's a sensation you have to go with to make things happen. There's enough diarrhea and loose bowels over the labour that I wasn't really concerned about laying out a cowpie. Plus when you have all sorts of unnamed things coming out, it doesn't matter so much that one does have a name!
You didn't name everything that came out? Lady Foxworth, the greatest after birth a father could ever have.
Did the husband get to cut the cord? I was meant to, but Esmé decided to join in with the pooing and let loose before the end of labour, and as such I wasn't allowed, which rather upset me
My husband shortened the cord, but didn't do the big cut. I don't think it was on the priority list that he get to do it. It might be related to the midwives collecting a cord blood sample that they did it themselves.
It's a girl, Hannah Aurelia Danneffel. July 14, 4:35am, 8lb2.5oz, 21 inches, healthy and happy! It was a really easy pregnancy, I really had no complaints. I felt great pretty much the whole time (7/8ths ain't bad).
I had her at home, attended by two midwives, my doula, and my own husband Andrew (my "Androula"). Haven't left the house since. It wasn't easy, but you get through it and the prize at the end is pretty awesome. WOULD BIRTH AGAIN A++++
And I know this isn't logical. Megan would agree to all of this if we were going to have a child, but.... it still makes me feel very horrible. Like a lazy bastard or something. It's stupid, but it's how I feel. Watching childbirth makes me squirm inside because of how difficult it looks. And I know that it's empowering for a lot of women. It still makes me feel like a horrible shit of a being.
Sometimes I think I'm maybe too empathetic for my own good. Or maybe I've heard too many horror stories from pregnancy. But.... you know what, it is horrible for most women, from everyone I've talked to. Sounds like you had a thoroughly above-average experience.
Oh and probably contributing is my growing disinterest in having children. It seems like a prison sentence to me.
I've always been curious about what it would be like to be pregnant, to give birth. It was an experience I very much wanted to have some day. I think the media is really negative about the whole process. I made a point to read and watch a lot of birth-positive materials, and talk to women I know (and hire one I didn't - my doula) about it too. I actually looked forward to the birth as a new experience, not as some dreadful D-Day.
I have so much I can say - I'll tell you everything if you want, just have a squalling baby upstairs now to tend to
And you DO have a job in all this too. My husband took over a bunch of chores when I was too tired, he made me food and let me lay about on the couch when I needed it. He has been so wonderful and supportive through everything - and I'm sure you would be too. Now that we have the baby, he's the one running around doing tasks while I lay about breastfeeding and napping, even though he's missing some sleep too. I don't know how I'd do this without him. Every woman needs such good support!
What I'm always curious about is the actual birth process. I've heard quite a bit about pregnancy, and it seems to be described much the same from woman to woman: mostly positive with some uncomfortable side effects, but the birth is always described differently. Sometimes it's a black pit of horror that they never want to experience again, and, others use it as a sort of apex of female power, but I'd love to hear more details. How would you describe it?
Andrew,
Birth was a very raw animal experience. You just have to let go and let it happen, let instincts take over.
Bear in mind that I didn't have typical prenatal care or a typical birth either. Many of the women you know and talk to probably have birthed in hospital, attended by a doctor/OB. Their prenatal care was probably by the same person, or in some impersonal clinic. I did my prenatal care with a midwife, who spends 45 minutes with me instead of the 10-15 an OB will give you, so I had a lot more time for information and support. I also had a homebirth, attended by midwives, my doula and my husband. So I probably felt more at home (since I was!), in control, and supported than someone who does it in hospital.
(I recall my aunt telling how a whole group of medical students checked her dilation during labour. 15 different hands in your vag will not help labour progress - talk about having power taken away!)
Birth itself though .. it's hard. It hurts. I'm in no rush to do it again, but I totally would. The moment the baby comes out, you get hit with oxytocin love hormones and any pain all goes away as you look at your prize. It's the most amazing high, it almost makes one forget the past 30 hours of labour. (This is something natural birth does well, ymmv on birth with drugs, I forget really)
The pain is concentrated into short stretches of time. It starts with 30 seconds out of every 10, then closes to 1 minute every 3 as things really get moving. If you add it up, it's not a 30 hour labour full of ow ow ow oh my god, it's 30 hours in which maybe 3 are painful. You get through it by moving, receiving rubs/counter-pressure from an assistant, and moaning.
It all is kind of empowering. To realize oneself as a raw human being, to be naked and making animal noises and not embarrassed in the slightest as a near-stranger pushes a warm washcloth to your perineum. I'm still so amazed that I did it, though in the moment there's no choice but to do it, no turning back.
If I may recommend anything - stick to natural-birth-positive reading. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth is an Excellent place to start. It has lots of encouraging natural birth stories, and then walks through the science of exactly why we are all very capable of giving birth naturally, and why it is also the best choice. Watch "The Business of Being Born", if only to see the few clips of natural births taking place at home.
And hire a doula. Yes they cost money, but know that there are some areas where you won't be much help to your wife. Men just aren't made to be birth partners, women are. Mine has been so excellent, I can't praise her enough for all she has done for me.
Babies are adorable, but I'm still quite a few years from thinking about having children. I work at a Boys and Girls Club part-time at the moment, and working there with a bunch of little kids makes me feel like a mom all the time. Little kids hang on me and hug me all day, and I think I get my fill of child clinginess with just that. Plus, when I talk about my age, a bunch of the kids say something like "My mom is younger than that!" or "My mom had me when she was....14!"
Craziness. I'm so glad your baby made it into the world happy and healthy, Tanya, and I wish you the BEST of luck fighting the sleep deprivation that comes with caring for a tiny newborn baby
I'm surprised you recognize her length as being tall - it is, of course. She's just slightly longer than I was at birth, so I suspect she'll be 5'10" some day like me.
And we've been incredibly fortunate the past few nights that she is such a good sleeper at night. I'm sure it changes at some point, but for now I am fine with the cycle we're in (sleep 2-4 hours, feed 45 minutes, change diaper, snack, water, sleep .. repeat between 11pm and 10am)
Takeru - thanks to you too. Forming babby surprisingly easy! I don't think one really knows what it is like to have them until they are there. Plenty to learn every day as we go along.
I understand the feeling Mish. I work at a summer camp, and I looove the 6-9 age range. They are permanently excited and in love with you, unlike the you-are-so-lame-and-I-am-too-cool-to-do-anything teenagers. The little ones definitely awaken the maternal genes.
And congratulations Tanya! D'awww! Little ones are adorable! Of course I have the luxury of handing them back to their parents. (Look at how cute you are! You are adorable! Oh dear, you are upset. I think your mother would like you back now. Goodbye!) I wish you luck with your mini-person!
I also have heard talk of forgetting all about the whole child birthing experience as soon as the kid is born. I don't think that effect is limited to natural-births.