2014 General NFL Thread

[CBStew]

And there was me thinking you were one of those "our dog is our kid" kind of guys.

Also, I had somehow assumed this was more of an American culture thing. Apparently not?

Go to a fancy restaurant in Paris for dinner.  At the next table you are likely to see a Parisian and his precious poodle sharing the fondue and cherries jubilee. 

[Eli]

And there was me thinking you were one of those "our dog is our kid" kind of guys.

Also, I had somehow assumed this was more of an American culture thing. Apparently not?

Go to a fancy restaurant in Paris for dinner.  At the next table you are likely to see a Parisian and his precious poodle sharing the fondue and cherries jubilee. 

I don't recall seeing many dogs at all in Paris.

[Yeti]

And there was me thinking you were one of those "our dog is our kid" kind of guys.

Also, I had somehow assumed this was more of an American culture thing. Apparently not?

Go to a fancy restaurant in Paris for dinner.  At the next table you are likely to see a Parisian and his precious poodle sharing the fondue and cherries jubilee. 

Paris for dinner. Tokyo for dessert

[Tonker]

And there was me thinking you were one of those "our dog is our kid" kind of guys.

Also, I had somehow assumed this was more of an American culture thing. Apparently not?

Go to a fancy restaurant in Paris for dinner.  At the next table you are likely to see a Parisian and his precious poodle sharing the fondue and cherries jubilee. 

Paris for dinner. Tokyo for dessert

That's very good, Yeti.

[Quality Start Machine]

And there was me thinking you were one of those "our dog is our kid" kind of guys.

Also, I had somehow assumed this was more of an American culture thing. Apparently not?

Unless Tonk is observing all this American behavior on FB.

OTOH I have a cousin in London whose wife shares the same level of zeal that many animal-lovers in the States possess so perhaps it is more global than I first thought.

Ding ding ding!  I'm also friends with some fucking fruit loop who constantly posts about his two young cat kids.  He's called them something cutesy like Gene and Rita, or some shit like that.

SBox'd

This is why you never hear me bitch about how hard I work.

We have cats and not kids, but we're also aware of the difference.

[PenFoe]

I'm gonna have to give Slaky a pass, because, for a man, there really isn't much to do during most of labor but sit around.

Yep. Literally sitting there waiting.

I find these viewpoints surprising.

Seriously. Ali's water broke at like 2am, and my son wasn't born until 8:54pm. Most of the time in between was spent waiting for her to dilate/efface (they eventually gave up and she had a c-section). There were literally hours where we basically hung out in the delivery room.

Yeah, it's just funny how different things can be -- Julie's water broke a little after 9 p.m. and the baby was out at 2:02 a.m. So, about 4 1/2 hours from sitting on our couch watching TV to holding a baby, which gave us actual sitcommy-throw-things-in-a-bag labor ("Where are the keys?!" "You're holding them!" *laugh track*). I don't think I even found my phone until I needed it to take pictures.

#DesipioBirthStories

I was pretty hands-on in both births, whether it was pacing back and forth watching the contractions/heartbeat monitor or holding a leg or grabbing water or whatever, there was definitely not any situation where I could have imagined being online.   Maybe because we didn't have any family there either time or just the nature of our relationship.   

[Eli]

I'm gonna have to give Slaky a pass, because, for a man, there really isn't much to do during most of labor but sit around.

Yep. Literally sitting there waiting.

I find these viewpoints surprising.

Seriously. Ali's water broke at like 2am, and my son wasn't born until 8:54pm. Most of the time in between was spent waiting for her to dilate/efface (they eventually gave up and she had a c-section). There were literally hours where we basically hung out in the delivery room.

Yeah, it's just funny how different things can be -- Julie's water broke a little after 9 p.m. and the baby was out at 2:02 a.m. So, about 4 1/2 hours from sitting on our couch watching TV to holding a baby, which gave us actual sitcommy-throw-things-in-a-bag labor ("Where are the keys?!" "You're holding them!" *laugh track*). I don't think I even found my phone until I needed it to take pictures.

#DesipioBirthStories

I was pretty hands-on in both births, whether it was pacing back and forth watching the contractions/heartbeat monitor or holding a leg or grabbing water or whatever, there was definitely not any situation where I could have imagined being online.   Maybe because we didn't have any family there either time or just the nature of our relationship.   

I can see if it's a 22-hour labor needing to step away for a bit (even during my wife's very fast labor, the midwife [yes, we're hippies] told me to leave for 10 minutes to get some fresh air), and checking your phone being as good of a distraction as any. It just would have felt very weird in our case. To each their own, of course.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I'm gonna have to give Slaky a pass, because, for a man, there really isn't much to do during most of labor but sit around.

Yep. Literally sitting there waiting.

I find these viewpoints surprising.

Seriously. Ali's water broke at like 2am, and my son wasn't born until 8:54pm. Most of the time in between was spent waiting for her to dilate/efface (they eventually gave up and she had a c-section). There were literally hours where we basically hung out in the delivery room.

Yeah, it's just funny how different things can be -- Julie's water broke a little after 9 p.m. and the baby was out at 2:02 a.m. So, about 4 1/2 hours from sitting on our couch watching TV to holding a baby, which gave us actual sitcommy-throw-things-in-a-bag labor ("Where are the keys?!" "You're holding them!" *laugh track*). I don't think I even found my phone until I needed it to take pictures.

#DesipioBirthStories

I was pretty hands-on in both births, whether it was pacing back and forth watching the contractions/heartbeat monitor or holding a leg or grabbing water or whatever, there was definitely not any situation where I could have imagined being online.   Maybe because we didn't have any family there either time or just the nature of our relationship.   

My last kid was pre-social media.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I'm gonna have to give Slaky a pass, because, for a man, there really isn't much to do during most of labor but sit around.

Yep. Literally sitting there waiting.

I find these viewpoints surprising.

Seriously. Ali's water broke at like 2am, and my son wasn't born until 8:54pm. Most of the time in between was spent waiting for her to dilate/efface (they eventually gave up and she had a c-section). There were literally hours where we basically hung out in the delivery room.

Yeah, it's just funny how different things can be -- Julie's water broke a little after 9 p.m. and the baby was out at 2:02 a.m. So, about 4 1/2 hours from sitting on our couch watching TV to holding a baby, which gave us actual sitcommy-throw-things-in-a-bag labor ("Where are the keys?!" "You're holding them!" *laugh track*). I don't think I even found my phone until I needed it to take pictures.

#DesipioBirthStories

I was pretty hands-on in both births, whether it was pacing back and forth watching the contractions/heartbeat monitor or holding a leg or grabbing water or whatever, there was definitely not any situation where I could have imagined being online.   Maybe because we didn't have any family there either time or just the nature of our relationship.   

Well someone had to apply the patchouli oil while your doula was busy burning the gluten-free harvest sacrifice to Mother Gaia.

[CBStew]

This used to be the "2014 General NFL Thread".

[Bort]

This used to be the "2014 General NFL Thread".

Football used to be fun.

[SKO]

I'm gonna have to give Slaky a pass, because, for a man, there really isn't much to do during most of labor but sit around.

Yep. Literally sitting there waiting.

I find these viewpoints surprising.

Seriously. Ali's water broke at like 2am, and my son wasn't born until 8:54pm. Most of the time in between was spent waiting for her to dilate/efface (they eventually gave up and she had a c-section). There were literally hours where we basically hung out in the delivery room.

Yeah, it's just funny how different things can be -- Julie's water broke a little after 9 p.m. and the baby was out at 2:02 a.m. So, about 4 1/2 hours from sitting on our couch watching TV to holding a baby, which gave us actual sitcommy-throw-things-in-a-bag labor ("Where are the keys?!" "You're holding them!" *laugh track*). I don't think I even found my phone until I needed it to take pictures.

#DesipioBirthStories

I was pretty hands-on in both births, whether it was pacing back and forth watching the contractions/heartbeat monitor or holding a leg or grabbing water or whatever, there was definitely not any situation where I could have imagined being online.   Maybe because we didn't have any family there either time or just the nature of our relationship.   

I can see if it's a 22-hour labor needing to step away for a bit (even during my wife's very fast labor, the midwife [yes, we're hippies] told me to leave for 10 minutes to get some fresh air), and checking your phone being as good of a distraction as any. It just would have felt very weird in our case. To each their own, of course.

We're using a midwife, too. Just one at a birth center so there's a doctor available in case of emergency. My hippie cousin just did a homebirth involving 63 hours of labor with a kid that was four days overdue without even a professional midwife their. Just some lady who read some books or something. I was appalled.

[Bort]

We used modern medicine. It was pretty sweet.

[Eli]

We're using a midwife, too. Just one at a birth center so there's a doctor available in case of emergency. My hippie cousin just did a homebirth involving 63 hours of labor with a kid that was four days overdue without even a professional midwife their. Just some lady who read some books or something. I was appalled.

No way I'd be comfortable with an unsupervised home birth, but it's nice there are growing options between giving birth in the woods and hospitals where doctors push C-sections so they can get to their kid's soccer game on time (my wife actually saw this happen when she was a NICU nurse). We were very happy with our midwife/birth center experience, which was still attached to a "modern" hospital and all its trappings, if actually needed.

[Yeti]

We used modern medicine. It was pretty sweet.

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