Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Prepared For Emergencies!
Since this blog has become primarily devoted to the anticipated arrival of our daughter, I thought it worth mentioning that I recently learned a little about what you could use the following materials for:
one sanitized shoelace
one pillow
one blanket
many sterile cloths
sterile scissors
If you ever want a too-much-information-thanks explanation of how these things can be useful, ask me sometime.
Since this blog has become primarily devoted to the anticipated arrival of our daughter, I thought it worth mentioning that I recently learned a little about what you could use the following materials for:
one sanitized shoelace
one pillow
one blanket
many sterile cloths
sterile scissors
If you ever want a too-much-information-thanks explanation of how these things can be useful, ask me sometime.
Comments:
First babies take quite awhile to arrive. I doubt it will happen at home! No need to panic here!
Carrie
(Laura's old roommate who's a nurse)
Carrie
(Laura's old roommate who's a nurse)
# posted by 
: 9/19/2006 9:57 PM
: 9/19/2006 9:57 PM
You ever heard them scream on old westerns, "Quick! The baby's coming! Boil water!" Never knew why.
Guess it's to boil a shoelace.
No worries Carrie, Steve doesn't think he'll actually NEED this information. He was just reading a fun fathering book. :) We only live three or four miles from the hospital. Doubt there will be any reason why we wouldn't make it.
Guess it's to boil a shoelace.
No worries Carrie, Steve doesn't think he'll actually NEED this information. He was just reading a fun fathering book. :) We only live three or four miles from the hospital. Doubt there will be any reason why we wouldn't make it.
Um, I don't think the boiled water was used strictly for sanitizing the shoelace, especially prior to the development of germ theory -- but we won't go there, k?
Even if there's a horrendous storm that fells trees all over town, local road construction is such that you could make it to the hospital anyway. It would be hard to block all 362 routes! Now, if a tree were to fall on your car, THEN you'd have a problem. ;o)
Even if there's a horrendous storm that fells trees all over town, local road construction is such that you could make it to the hospital anyway. It would be hard to block all 362 routes! Now, if a tree were to fall on your car, THEN you'd have a problem. ;o)
# posted by : 9/21/2006 7:53 AM
: 9/21/2006 7:53 AM
Shoot. Forgot I had an epidemiologist with a knowledge of the history of disease in my midst. [hands up in defeat] you win. I was making it all up.
But, really, that is how they suggest you sanitize the shoe lace. :)
I have no idea why they boil water in old westerns.
But, really, that is how they suggest you sanitize the shoe lace. :)
I have no idea why they boil water in old westerns.
Since I've already *completely* lost my appetite, I don't think I'll be asking for more information.
It was the shoelace. I could have handled everything else. But the word "shoelace" is now forever connected in my mind with "all those things that were happening down there on the other side of the drape the day Isaac was born."
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It was the shoelace. I could have handled everything else. But the word "shoelace" is now forever connected in my mind with "all those things that were happening down there on the other side of the drape the day Isaac was born."
# posted by : 9/21/2006 1:10 PM
: 9/21/2006 1:10 PM