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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-25 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-25 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2011
- IPv6 for consumers on DSL at last
- Apple is the UK's second most popular shopping site (after Amazon)
- Google and Samsung confirm Galaxy Nexus volume bugs - glad I'm not upgrading until January!
- Badoo - the billion pound social network you've never heard of (massive in Brazil, Spain, France...)
- Genetic Study Confirms: First Dogs Came from East Asia
- Britain has had a record-breaking freakishly warm autumn
- Courts cannot force ISPs into broad filtering and monitoring for copyright-infringing traffic, ECJ rules
- Offshore unit launched to tackle international tax avoidance
- UK switching cervical cancer vaccine to one which also protects against genital warts
- Seeing nude people tunes up the brain
- Some very interesting stats on home births, midwives, etc.
- Ethical bank Triodos opens its first UK branch (in Edinburgh)
- Organising movie posters by different tropes they use. Strangely hypnotic.
- It's nice to know that there's at least one class out there getting decent sex education
- Willpower Is more than a metaphor: Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source.
- Journalists tried to reach JK Rowling through her five-year-old daughter. Can we shoot them now?
- 50p tax rate not actually causing a massive problem.
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I remember discussing this forcefully with My Lovely Wife in advance of the birth of our first son. I also remember my mum (a doctor) threatening to bully MLW into going to the hospital. After a 36 labour resulted in an unplanned C-section all of us were glad we’d been in hospital. Saying that being able to nip off to my own spare bed for a kip would have helped me function a lot better.
However, doesn’t the research indicate that home births are just as safe as hospital births for second births with parent-child combinations that are low risk?
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I would still choose to be already in the place where the specialist teams and equipment are, rather than be hanging about for an ambulance with wife in agony/baby dying.
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I guess you pays your money and you takes your choice on whether the additional risk of the ambulance ride and consequently anxiety if thing go wrong are worth being at home at all that loveliness are worth it to you.
Personally, I'm with you on. Take me to the place where the surgeons hang out.
Next time tho' I'm taking my own blow up bed and blanket.
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Frustratingly I noticed the "guest bedrooms" near the wards in our maternity hospital on the way out with my four day old son.
I definately felt that having a few hours sleep was really beneficial during the birth process. MLW was very tired, (close to exhausted) and full of a cocktail of several pain killers and other chemicals and my ability to translate what the doctor was saying in English into stoned, tired, anxious, pained MLW-ees was useful. I think had I had four hours proper sleep lying down with a blanket I'd have been able to do a better job.
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How that delay compares to the time spent waiting for / in an ambulance depends of course on where exactly you live.