On which day of the week were you born?
 

Well?

These guys say it was a Sunday. My recollection is a little hazy for that day, but I think they are right.

Hey I used that too glatt. Monday for me. Tuesday and Thursday for the kids.

Monday for me too...

Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Woe is me!

Hebe's gay, Hector and beest are graceful, and Thor's a cutie ;)

ha, great minds.....

I always thought being born on a Monday meant I was a boring child.:bonk:

because Mondays were always sooooo boring

Monday here too.

Looks like several of us have far to go. I'm ready for a boogie, but have no wheels. :(

Saturday. Sigh.

Tuesday. You know, that poem is too christian-centered.

I was born on a Wednesday. My Bro however was born on the Sabbath :P

Tuesday.

One's birthday was a couple of weeks ago. One is not amused at another year having hurtled past unnoticed.:headshake

Carruthers

Hey that's my Saturday you're sighing on! Nothing wrong with Saturday. In fact, as scheduled and induced deliveries become more common, us weekenders will be a rarer breed.

So, does it mean I can have a happy unbirthday every Wednesday? :D

I was born at 1:20 AM....so I'm really kind of on the cusp of Sunday night.


Do any of you believe that you have natural energy peaks? I find that if I am not asleep by 12:30, I'm up past 2. And I have a decided energy lull from 1PM to about 4:30 PM.

I was born 14,641 days ago on Monday, January 5, 1970. This was the same day German physicist/mathematician Max Born died at the age of 87.

I was born on Carnival day - it used to be the first Saturday in July, which in 1972 happened to be July 1st. Mum was told a couple of times that she was lucky - she went into hospital in the early hours and I was born at 07.30. Had I been a couple of hours later making an appearance they'd have had trouble getting through the traffic. Mum just thought she was lucky because I was about a week overdue and she was tired of lugging me around.

So, no. Had I been scheduled I certainly would not have had to work hard for a living!

I was bonny as a child but no more...but i've never been gay or good. :p

Are people really still doing this?
Boggles the mind that insurance companies even let them.

Z-let #1 was weeks late and was induced. Of course that was 18 years ago.

I read recently about the increase in elective caesarians in this country. But it was a negative article about women who could afford private healthcare being "too posh to push" so I can't say if there was any truth in it.

scheduled c-sections are much cheaper than emergency ones

People agree to have induced labor so that their doctor will be there for the delivery. Or doctors suggest it so the delivery doesn't interfere with their schedule. Either way.

What does that have to do with elective inductions based on schedules or weekends?

a tuesday

It's not so much vanity scheduling, it's more like there's a complication (like pre-eclampsia or gestational diabetes) which means they know they're going to schedule a c-section before the due date. In the past, the risks of a c-section had to be balanced with the risk of the condition, but they've gotten extremely good at minimizing the risks of c-sections these days, so pretty much anyone with a risky pregnancy condition is told to get one. Plus, multiple births are going up, and those are assumed to be c-sections these days too.

If there are complications, then an induction wouldn't be considered elective. It's the scheduling around around weekends (like you mentioned and I originally commented on), vacations, end of year tax reasons etc that I question. One intervention generally leads to more - and these things cost money. Gah.

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Pull up to the bumper.

Just call me Grace.

The expectant mothers who work with me have always tried to schedule their deliveries based on amount of time they had on the books. In other words, now days women can not afford to go 6 weeks with no paycheck so they try to work as long as possible to generate more vacation/sick time and then the minute their maternity leave starts, they want to have the baby thus giving them more time with the actual child rather than time off waiting for the birth.

Even though I can understand the financial sides of 'choosing' the day and almost the exact time you want your child to be born, it takes away some of the joy of letting nature takes its course or it would for me anyway.

My Swedish friend tells me that new mothers are required by law to take one year paid maternity leave and fathers, 6 months. I guess in Sweden they put their "no child left behind" money where their mouth is. OTOH, they have like 11 1/2 months of darkness, so...

OKY, I think my friend is full of shit: http://www.thelocal.se/14022/20080829/ and

http://www.thelocal.se/10420/20080312/

What should I expect from someone who consorts with squirells?

I guess even in Sweden, fathers would rather go fishing than to help raise their kids! LOL I probably should say....MOST fathers seem to fall in that catergory but not all.

I read an interesting article awhile back--I want to say in the New York Times, but I can't remember--that talked about how in countries with very long government-mandated maternity leave (3-4 months is common in various places in Europe,) women just have that much more trouble getting hired in the first place. The article claimed it was standard practice to remove one's wedding ring for an interview, and even lie about being married if asked, because if they thought there was even a tiny risk you might get pregnant they wouldn't hire you, plain and simple. Illegal, of course, but government mandates usually don't work out as intended...

"There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many children
her uterus fell out."

Sunday. And on Mother's day at that. Momma's boy? hmmmm...

Looking at the poll results, its amazing how so few here were born on a Friday.

Is this where I confess that I only put up this poll as a result of LJ's poll "How many choices can you put up for a Poll"?

I feel so violated.

Friday night, I crashed your party.

Yes, yes it does.

Sunday. HAH!