New member for GL club! & What do you call your GL?
12-05-2010, 09:17 PM
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New member for GL club! & What do you call your GL?
Hey guys!
Mrs. Brocktoon delivered a 8lb 1oz baby boy last night. We called him Emmett. This brings our total to two, including our six year old girl, Waverly.
Anyways, it felt pretty good to drive him home through the ice and snow in "Mr. Mercedes", as the GL is known in our family. He is a replacement for "Mr. Car-Ride", our Land Rover that we bought when we started a family, now driven by my mother-in-law.
Do you guys have any family names for your GL? My grandmother used to drive a Monte Carlo, that was always called "Betsy", even to the people who drove her after she sold it. It seems it's kids and grans/bubbies naming cars, anyone else?
Mrs. Brocktoon delivered a 8lb 1oz baby boy last night. We called him Emmett. This brings our total to two, including our six year old girl, Waverly.
Anyways, it felt pretty good to drive him home through the ice and snow in "Mr. Mercedes", as the GL is known in our family. He is a replacement for "Mr. Car-Ride", our Land Rover that we bought when we started a family, now driven by my mother-in-law.
Do you guys have any family names for your GL? My grandmother used to drive a Monte Carlo, that was always called "Betsy", even to the people who drove her after she sold it. It seems it's kids and grans/bubbies naming cars, anyone else?
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12-05-2010, 09:48 PM
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Hey guys!
Mrs. Brocktoon delivered a 8lb 1oz baby boy last night. We called him Emmett. This brings our total to two, including our six year old girl, Waverly.
Anyways, it felt pretty good to drive him home through the ice and snow in "Mr. Mercedes", as the GL is known in our family. He is a replacement for "Mr. Car-Ride", our Land Rover that we bought when we started a family, now driven by my mother-in-law.
Do you guys have any family names for your GL? My grandmother used to drive a Monte Carlo, that was always called "Betsy", even to the people who drove her after she sold it. It seems it's kids and grans/bubbies naming cars, anyone else?
Mrs. Brocktoon delivered a 8lb 1oz baby boy last night. We called him Emmett. This brings our total to two, including our six year old girl, Waverly.
Anyways, it felt pretty good to drive him home through the ice and snow in "Mr. Mercedes", as the GL is known in our family. He is a replacement for "Mr. Car-Ride", our Land Rover that we bought when we started a family, now driven by my mother-in-law.
Do you guys have any family names for your GL? My grandmother used to drive a Monte Carlo, that was always called "Betsy", even to the people who drove her after she sold it. It seems it's kids and grans/bubbies naming cars, anyone else?
12-05-2010, 10:33 PM
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Not having ordered my 2011 Mercedes GL450 as of yet, I find this future vehicle without a name however a couple of years ago I named my 2007 Cadillac Escalade " Piece of Sh*t"!!!
12-06-2010, 12:37 AM
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Hey guys!
Mrs. Brocktoon delivered a 8lb 1oz baby boy last night. We called him Emmett. This brings our total to two, including our six year old girl, Waverly.
Anyways, it felt pretty good to drive him home through the ice and snow in "Mr. Mercedes", as the GL is known in our family. He is a replacement for "Mr. Car-Ride", our Land Rover that we bought when we started a family, now driven by my mother-in-law.
Do you guys have any family names for your GL? My grandmother used to drive a Monte Carlo, that was always called "Betsy", even to the people who drove her after she sold it. It seems it's kids and grans/bubbies naming cars, anyone else?
Mrs. Brocktoon delivered a 8lb 1oz baby boy last night. We called him Emmett. This brings our total to two, including our six year old girl, Waverly.
Anyways, it felt pretty good to drive him home through the ice and snow in "Mr. Mercedes", as the GL is known in our family. He is a replacement for "Mr. Car-Ride", our Land Rover that we bought when we started a family, now driven by my mother-in-law.
Do you guys have any family names for your GL? My grandmother used to drive a Monte Carlo, that was always called "Betsy", even to the people who drove her after she sold it. It seems it's kids and grans/bubbies naming cars, anyone else?
As for my GL...we called it "The car that's in the shop." hehe.
Seriously, CONGRATS on your new addition!!!!
Tam
12-06-2010, 01:09 AM
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CONGRATS!!! Days of sleeping straight through the night are over! Oh, I remember those days..... but it is a labor of love. I do miss holding my baby. Our youngest is already 6 years old and she's a little too heavy for me these days.
I car our GL "your car" since the mrs. mostly drives it. I know, pretty dang original!
Oh, I remember those days..... but it is a labor of love. I do miss holding my baby. Our youngest is already 6 years old and she's a little too heavy for me these days.I car our GL "your car" since the mrs. mostly drives it. I know, pretty dang original!
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12-06-2010, 07:59 AM
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Thanks for the congrats, guys.
Tamz, I think it is cool you are going into midwifery. I saw some clips of hospital deliveries in the US, and it was nothing like here. They had everyone on Pitocin, even moms already in labour. That seemed pretty weird, so I can see how people would want to try something different. Although both of our kids were hospital births, we were in and out of there in a day or so last time and 12 hours this time. Mrs. Brocktoon had no specific plans for natural births, but wound up with one both times, no epidural or anything. This last one got stuck at the shoulder, and that is for sure something I would not want to see happen at home, but the doc was able to resolve it almost right after she called the code, so a whole crew mustered up for nothing.
Anyway, that's it for me. I'm gonna be retired by the time this one graduates high school. I'm getting too old for this stuff.
Tamz, I think it is cool you are going into midwifery. I saw some clips of hospital deliveries in the US, and it was nothing like here. They had everyone on Pitocin, even moms already in labour. That seemed pretty weird, so I can see how people would want to try something different. Although both of our kids were hospital births, we were in and out of there in a day or so last time and 12 hours this time. Mrs. Brocktoon had no specific plans for natural births, but wound up with one both times, no epidural or anything. This last one got stuck at the shoulder, and that is for sure something I would not want to see happen at home, but the doc was able to resolve it almost right after she called the code, so a whole crew mustered up for nothing.
Anyway, that's it for me. I'm gonna be retired by the time this one graduates high school. I'm getting too old for this stuff.
12-06-2010, 10:02 AM
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12-06-2010, 10:51 AM
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Yes, I left the GL on the roof of the hospital. It was about -25c when I got out, and it had a mean sound! Usually it sits in heated parking at home, and at the mall, etc.
12-06-2010, 05:58 PM
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Thanks for the congrats, guys.
Tamz, I think it is cool you are going into midwifery. I saw some clips of hospital deliveries in the US, and it was nothing like here. They had everyone on Pitocin, even moms already in labour. That seemed pretty weird, so I can see how people would want to try something different. Although both of our kids were hospital births, we were in and out of there in a day or so last time and 12 hours this time. Mrs. Brocktoon had no specific plans for natural births, but wound up with one both times, no epidural or anything. This last one got stuck at the shoulder, and that is for sure something I would not want to see happen at home, but the doc was able to resolve it almost right after she called the code, so a whole crew mustered up for nothing.
Anyway, that's it for me. I'm gonna be retired by the time this one graduates high school. I'm getting too old for this stuff.
Tamz, I think it is cool you are going into midwifery. I saw some clips of hospital deliveries in the US, and it was nothing like here. They had everyone on Pitocin, even moms already in labour. That seemed pretty weird, so I can see how people would want to try something different. Although both of our kids were hospital births, we were in and out of there in a day or so last time and 12 hours this time. Mrs. Brocktoon had no specific plans for natural births, but wound up with one both times, no epidural or anything. This last one got stuck at the shoulder, and that is for sure something I would not want to see happen at home, but the doc was able to resolve it almost right after she called the code, so a whole crew mustered up for nothing.
Anyway, that's it for me. I'm gonna be retired by the time this one graduates high school. I'm getting too old for this stuff.
Congrats again!
Tam
12-06-2010, 06:42 PM
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lol... Trust me, I have heard more than my share of "Lemon" jokes ever since we bought this car! hehe..Ironically, we own a 10 acre LEMON RANCH here in Southern California. Can't get more ironic than that, I guess. LOL! Oh well...Actually, for my daughters, Cheer competition, everyone wrote on their vehicles windows for the drive down there and it reminded me of how I've seen a few vehicles before, with "THIS CAR IS A LEMON" posted all over it..so as I was writing the Cheer stuff on the C300's windows...I had visions of writing, "This SUV IS A LEMON" on my GL's windows....sigh...
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My High-Schooler is a Basketball player, so she had to decorate her own window accordingly.
12-06-2010, 08:34 PM
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12-06-2010, 08:42 PM
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All the ones over here are, Tam, but maybe that's because we likely already get what you are offering from the OBs. The midwives are not allowed in the hospitals here, although you can hire a doula to come to the hospital. They have a midwife birthing house just a few blocks from here where you can go to deliver, if you like or they bring a kiddie pool to your house. There is a huge waiting list, and even though my wife called just about as soon as I started snoring, she was still too late to hire a doula for the birth, their schedules were already full.
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12-07-2010, 12:48 AM
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All the ones over here are, Tam, but maybe that's because we likely already get what you are offering from the OBs. The midwives are not allowed in the hospitals here, although you can hire a doula to come to the hospital. They have a midwife birthing house just a few blocks from here where you can go to deliver, if you like or they bring a kiddie pool to your house. There is a huge waiting list, and even though my wife called just about as soon as I started snoring, she was still too late to hire a doula for the birth, their schedules were already full.
After 9 years of schooling and a Master's level education, I'm not sure most CNM's would be going the home birth route. I think most home births are attended by a regular midwife. (which seems to be the more natural home birth/kiddie pool route.) A CNM can do many things such as prescribe meds, etc. These are things a CM cannot do, if I'm not mistaken. What is wonderful is that more and more insurance companies are covering deliveries by a Certified Nurse Midwife! My husband still doesn't understand why I just didn't go to medical school and become a doctor--there isn't that much difference in the years of schooling, to tell you the truth-- but my heart lies in delivering babies and working under an OB as a CNM is much less expensive, medical malpractice insurance-wise!
But that said, I would have totally delivered mine at home if my husband would have let me
I was delivered (well, I actually delivered my children myself as far as pulling them out..lol) by my good friend, who is a CNM. She is who got me started on this path. My births were natural but I am the first to tell a woman, there truly isn't someone waiting at the end of the table to hand you a trophy if you do it natural--epidurals CAN be a wonderful thing and I would never discourage a patient from getting one if she truly felt she needed one. Gee--I didn't mean to hijack your thread--but hey, we ARE talking about babies and you just added a new one to your bunch!
Tam
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12-07-2010, 08:20 AM
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Tamz, that seems like an awesome career. There is nothing like that here, I think the doctors would blow a head gasket. It is just the sort of thing we need, though.
12-07-2010, 05:56 PM
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Tam good luck with your schooling, I know how that feels. I have thought about going on for CNM or PA but can't bring myself to go back to school. Maybe when the kids are older and not home as much I will pursue that dream
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