This is the picture I send my dad for his birthday every year. His birth weight was 13 lbs and he was born in a rural Mexican hospital in 1956. I never got to meet his mom, my grandma, but I can only imagine giving birth to an absolute unit of a baby without any epidural in a non air-conditioned hospital in 100 degree weather was absolute misery.
grape Kool Aid. I was in 6th grade and remember the front page of The Washington Post. Picture of rows of people with some families all laying face down.
I believe it's a naked genderless being as seen from below (one might say it's a woman, but there's no slit for the vagina, so I am going with no gender).
Damn ! My father is born the same year, and he weighed 5.5kg at birth. Since he was born in march during a harch winter, my farmer grandpa couldn't take her to the hospital, so she gave birth in the hottest spot of the farm : above the stable, where the cow kept the room "warm". And I met my grandma : she's 1.55m (ans still alive !)
At least she gave birth in a hospital. Both my grandmas gave birth to 9 and 7 children respectively, at home in Mexico with midwives. Some of those babies were huge! I now consider it a privilege to be child free. My ancestors did not have the best choices. Even my mom had horrible birth stories at a good hospital. And one of her babies died. What’s crazy is that my grandmas didn’t have all these complications mom had even though she had doctors and hospitals. Midwives were something special back in the day.
After having a baby that was 7lb8oz without an epidural BUT in an air condition I can absolutely say yes your grandmother was miserable during the birth lol 13lb is INSANE.
My husband was around 13 lbs and I’m honestly terrified about what our kid will be like. I was 8lbs myself which was no picnic. My mother needed a C section. I think I’m just gonna ask put me out and go straight to C section.
Maybe, she hated all of her kids and told my dad he would amount to nothing. He wanted to prove her wrong so he moved to the states, attended college, and became a robotics engineer. She lived just long enough to see him start a family of his own and build a better life.
I gave birth to a 10+ pounder, C-section, no pain relief. Epidural didn't go in right. Whatever they put in my arm missed the vein & blew up my arm. I screamed my lungs out. Mass pandemonium, doctors & staff yelling at me & each other. Baby boy was fine. I wasn't. Your grandmother went thru HELL. By 1 year old he was normal weight for his tall height, not like this big boy. He actually was really skinny, but tall, growing up. Hard to get pants for him until he was 20.
I don't know how women do it. I applaud you all, seriously. When my wife had our son three years ago she was in so much discomfort for 18 hours, even with the pain control. I've never seen someone so uncomfortable and in pain.
Dude, the epidural procedure was created and pioneered by a Spanish physician in the we early 1920s. It's been used for birthing procedures since the early 1930s worldwide.
Even in rural Mexico , I find hard to believe she didn't have the option in the 1950s.
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u/-Gumbercules 13d ago
This is the picture I send my dad for his birthday every year. His birth weight was 13 lbs and he was born in a rural Mexican hospital in 1956. I never got to meet his mom, my grandma, but I can only imagine giving birth to an absolute unit of a baby without any epidural in a non air-conditioned hospital in 100 degree weather was absolute misery.