Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up rather early, breakfast, off to hospital; saw
a better slept J. & H. slept well most of the night. Saw the
paediatrician, everything normal.
- Checked all the usual functions were
well in order, changed her, had a demo bath. Got fleeced by
PatientLink - it ignored my card.
- Met Lance Robson on my course in the LCE at Cambridge,
working at Nortel now; his wife had a far more traumatic birth, also
a girl; good chap.
- Packed everything in the car, via several round trips -
and drove home; slightly amazed by the different perspective on
irritating children cycling in the road ahead of one - God loves them
more than even their parents, who suffered a lot to give birth to them.
- H. very quiet and good, fed her, had lunch, phoned
more friends and family. Hannah woke up and got some inconsolable
crying in - rather scary before sleeping again. Got flowers from Undean
and Bruce & Anne.
- Searched on
gospelcom to check the spelling of my daughter's name; realised
it is indeed palindromic.
- Phoned Agent TMR13 and David - who it seems had
a good children's camp; badgered him about young ladies, good to
talk though. Suzannah and Clive arrived while on the phone; showed
Hannah to them (mercifully asleep now).
- Phone call from Federico & Oralia - lovely to hear
from them; F. seems to have ~finished his libbonoboui focus
fixage - which is great.
- Mum & Dad arrived; sat around discussing various
bits - finally understood what a horrific labour mother had had
with me: contractions Monday -> Saturday.
- Shower, bed early - very hard to sleep, upset about the
birth. The magazines all talk about what pain relief to use, but
not about the ethics of choosing to withold pain-relief to secure
a faster, (overall less painful?) birth, very troubling.
God was so good to us with a short, uncomplicated, labour - it
seems sad to get hung up on that; it perhaps throws some light on
the wider picture of the 'problem' of pain in the world.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
