life is beautiful. live.

One of my pet peeves at work is when I go to change a baby and there's gunk in their belly button.  Not like the umbilical cord residue that comes out on its own, but other stuff. Like, really? It would take .2 seconds to wipe that out.  Gross.  But, after pondering about belly buttons and umbilical cord residue I realized that it had been a long time since I'd seen that whole Miracle of Life movie.  You know, the movie they show you in health class senior year in which you cannot see a thing because *ahem* the mother does not groom.  Yes.  I just wrote that on my blog, but it's true.

So I went onto youtube, which is where I go when I want to watch anything.  I typed in "live birth."  And had to verify my birthday, should that of been a sign?

This one was not scary.  I saw that and said, "okay I think I could do that, it doesn't look too bad."  but holy #@*! this one was.  Wiping the blood out of the infant's eyes... ahh!

The verdict is I still love my job and I still want to have 5 kids.  Cuts or not (shudder).

Comments

[Brittany]

wow. i want to be a mommy sooo bad, and can't wait til that time comes, but lookin' at those videos it's like "whoooaa... uggghhh....ouch!" i guess u're never ready until u have no choice but to be. yikes.

[Christina]

I have 2 children and I have to say that it's SO worth it! They are good young people, but I have to say; my son is 13 and occasionally he has some navel lint:) It's all love tho :)

[teresa]

Silly lady- I have to say I don't think I've ever thought of baby belly gunk before-
But now I think you may have tainted me- I will never beable to look at a baby belly again without thinking of that- Just kidding, I'm good- :}

[shan]

oh, my dear katie, don't worry too much about the birthing thing. Once YOU're the one in stirrups (haha) . . . .

a)all personal concerns for modesty go out the window
b)that epidural is a magical wonder, you don't even feel a thing.

[Becca]

Sorry I don't know, but what is your job?

[Lisa Brown]

I can't even watch "Baby Story" - it freaked me out to bad. To prepare for having kids I had to read stuff :) - less visual.