ouch.

If it’s a boy, I’d call him Ivan. If a girl, Yekaterina the Truly Great.

Ouch 2

Wow!  I’ll bet the NFL is keeping an eye on that kid.

Jackie: no worries - the baby was delivered by C-section.  Mother and daughter (whose name is Nadezhda) are doing fine.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298231,00.html

Still….

Kendall:  Here’s another for the “No Comment” Department:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298211,00.html

Вод как!  Што зто?

I was 9’12” in Billings, Montana on October 30. 1955 and I’m not that big now(except for the pounds I put on that are my own fault).  So I don’t know how much it means.

From the mother-giving-birth standpoint, it means a lot; just ask your wife (grin).  The phrase “pushing out a watermelon” comes to mind.  It’s a good thing she had a C-section.

Or your mother - she would know for sure! lolol

Wow! I hope they keep a close eye on the baby—overly large babies have a great risk of juvenile diabetes, I think.

Many years to both mother and child!

Bart, I don’t know how you got cyrillic. I am jealous.

Tui shutish? Nyet, ya nyet shuchu.

My big baby story from medical school: Our intro-to-patients attending was loved and revered by all the medical students, a family practitioner who knew everything, fun and funny, elder in his church, etc.

He was on call and got called in for a delivery. Mom on medicaid. No prenatal care. Bad gestational diabetes, so the kid had been swimming in glucose for nine months. The head delivered but the shoulders didn’t (shoulder dystocia). Went through the algorithm and ended up pushing the kid back in and delivering by c-section. The kid was over 13 lbs in a normal sized mom. The child had some unilateral upper extremity weakness (brachial plexus injury). A number of these resolve by 12 mos but mom sued. The insurance settled rather than bring an infant in front of a jury. All the medical students were crushed. He stopped practicing OB, I believe.  An early lesson in the medical legal world.

My father was born at home in a log cabin in Mississippi, 17 August 1906.  He was number 5, weighed 14 pounds, and was followed by 4 more babies…all born at home.  He died of old age 17 February 2000.
This after having malaria as a baby, being very severely burned at 30, Rocky Mountain tick fever at 45, broken back at 55, emphasema at 65 that cleared completely after 10 years of living in Arizona.  He was one healthy man!

O.o And here I thought I was in for it (in January) with my husband’s family averaging about 10 lbs at birth.  Amazing.

Thanks Kendall+ & commentors—a much needed break from all the HoB posts —my comment, “WOW!”