reza@ihuxb.UUCP (07/05/83)
On the night of June 17th my wife and I and a bunch of friends went to a concert. Now this was not no heavy rock. They had a few singers from my home country of Iran ( Flame on! ) in a dinner/music arrangement, i.e. neither the music nor the audience was supposed to be loud. Well, as it turned out people got so home sick that they made the singers sing way past midnight for a total of 6 hours and my friends and I got a little drunk and rowdy and ..., so it got louder than expected but still nothing out of the ordinary. We got home at 3:00 am and I hit the sack. At 4:00 am my wife woke me up and said "get the bag, we're going to the hospital!." All of a sudden the bag of water broke and she started getting contractions. And at 10:57 pm June 18th Kiana was born. The doctor had said that the due date would be June 27, at the earliest! Now, I don't know for sure whether she really was born 10 days early or not, but if she was not, then her birth right after the concert was a real freakish coincidence. If she was early because of the concert then it better be because she liked the music rather than being disturbed by it, or she is in deep trouble! On another note. All this talk about the Formula in third world countries takes away the attention that should be given to their practices of formula manufacturers and the medical profession here. Free formula is not given exclusively to mothers in third world countries. We were given the freebies, too. And what's worse my wife was encouraged by the pediatrician to give formula to our daughter if her milk did not seem to appease her hunger. Now this really sucks! I don't know if the doctor kept saying that because of laziness, or because the medical profession has something going on with formula manufacturers or what. But no nurse and doctor that we came in contact with warned us against the problems of starting the baby off with formula and hoping for the mother's milk to come later. If we had not talked to other people, and if not for a few pamphlet put out by some decent people, now after two weeks we would have HAD to feed the baby with formula. H. Reza Taheri ...!ihnp4!ihuxb!reza (312)-979-1040
silver@csu-cs.UUCP (07/08/83)
In our case, it was a large Chinese dinner that did the trick. And, by the way, there's nothing unusual about delivering as much as two weeks early or late, even if you know the exact time of conception!