...and of course I have to write a book about it.
My neighbor went into labor at 4am Sunday. She's a week overdue already and on Saturday morning I agreed to be on call for her this coming week, since there's no summer school teaching work for me this week.
She was trying for a home birth without drugs, which to me is absolute insanity. ;)
Sarcasm aside, a home birth seems like that's just the way it should be done anyway, innit? And the without drugs thing, well that's just cuz you never know what the meds really do to a newborn, so trying to birth without is also a good idea.
Ain't no way I'd ever tho. ;)
Though she was in labor, I was not told I should report for babysitting duty on Sunday, so I went ahead with my plans to do the AIDS Walk.
We had a great turnout and did the walk, and had a great time walking with my hubby![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
anaguma, with artisticskin, damiondead, princessdammitt, nohwhere_man, Anna Mae, Christine, Melanie and Betsy.
mklmyrs was also there but instead of walking, he manned the team table for us along with Amanda. THANK YOU!
Our team raised $2,425 in online donations alone! The total for this year's AIDS Walk was over $3M.
On the way home from the AIDS Walk, my neighbor called to tell me she was still in labor. I told her I'd be over as soon as I could to help out with her toddler son.
I had time to change clothes and that's it. My neighbor's wife told me I could find their son in the park a couple blocks away with another babysitter, so off I went, after having just walked 6 miles for the AIDS Walk. My feet and legs were in pain but I'd promised I'd be there for my neighbors, and besides, their son is adorable. :)
( The rest details a day in the life of a parent as experienced by ztepf )
I think that of all the babysitting and nannying and preschool teacher work I've done - having stayed overnight with barely any sleep and having to get up ready to go full steam ahead the next day with a little one - that is surely the closest experience I've had yet to a real day in the life of a parent is like.
And I'm happy that it's not my every day life.
My neighbor went into labor at 4am Sunday. She's a week overdue already and on Saturday morning I agreed to be on call for her this coming week, since there's no summer school teaching work for me this week.
She was trying for a home birth without drugs, which to me is absolute insanity. ;)
Sarcasm aside, a home birth seems like that's just the way it should be done anyway, innit? And the without drugs thing, well that's just cuz you never know what the meds really do to a newborn, so trying to birth without is also a good idea.
Ain't no way I'd ever tho. ;)
Though she was in labor, I was not told I should report for babysitting duty on Sunday, so I went ahead with my plans to do the AIDS Walk.
We had a great turnout and did the walk, and had a great time walking with my hubby
anaguma, with artisticskin, damiondead, princessdammitt, nohwhere_man, Anna Mae, Christine, Melanie and Betsy. mklmyrs was also there but instead of walking, he manned the team table for us along with Amanda. THANK YOU!Our team raised $2,425 in online donations alone! The total for this year's AIDS Walk was over $3M.
On the way home from the AIDS Walk, my neighbor called to tell me she was still in labor. I told her I'd be over as soon as I could to help out with her toddler son.
I had time to change clothes and that's it. My neighbor's wife told me I could find their son in the park a couple blocks away with another babysitter, so off I went, after having just walked 6 miles for the AIDS Walk. My feet and legs were in pain but I'd promised I'd be there for my neighbors, and besides, their son is adorable. :)
( The rest details a day in the life of a parent as experienced by ztepf )
I think that of all the babysitting and nannying and preschool teacher work I've done - having stayed overnight with barely any sleep and having to get up ready to go full steam ahead the next day with a little one - that is surely the closest experience I've had yet to a real day in the life of a parent is like.
And I'm happy that it's not my every day life.
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