The Day the Earth Stood Still

[Shlup]

Someone posted on my Facebook wall yesterday (it was my dad, but I'm sick of talking about him so I'm going to pretend it wasn't) that they were watching the doctor who delivered the Infant Shlup on the Smithsonian channel. I guess his name was (is?) James Van Pelt, the navigator on The Bockscar, which dropped the "Fat Man" on Nagasaki 65 years ago yesterday.

My mom replied with "My OBGYN was a WWII Navagator. Not something I was looking for when I chose him," which immediately turned my mind to comparing my mother's birth canal to an a-bomb site.

Weird.

I was born at 2:55am on a Monday after just two hours of labor. I was a normal-sized baby, but my head was a bit large and the doctor had to snip my mom's tra-la a bit to get me out. Without drugs. In 1983, I guess dad's still didn't go in the delivery room. Or at least mine didn't. He might've just been too high or something though.

A few years after I was born they turned that hospital into a rehab center.

Tell me details about the day you were born.

[Raistlin]

my head was a bit large...

A bit?

A few years after I was born they turned that hospital into a rehab center.

You had a lasting effect, I see.

I don't remember many small details I've been told about my day of birth (time, etc.). I do remember that I was 8 pounds, 6 ounces. I was also an emergency C-section because my mom had some complications, and because of those complications and the fact they weren't expecting a C-section, I had problems with my heart and breathing which resulted in me being put on a heart monitor for two weeks (where they quite amusingly didn't spot my heart murmur, though a doctor with a simple stethescope heard it when I was 13).

[Peegee]

You're going to love this:

When I and my brother were born, we both suffered birth complications leading to cerebral aneurysm!

I was an 8 lbs baby ^_^

[Raistlin]

Brain damage would explain a lot about you.

[Rodarian]

On the night of June 7th my mama and pa attended my cousins 2nd Bday..At the tail end of it , my thought she was having indigestion...Turns out its me coming at two weeks early than schedule....

So there she goes to the hospital... I was born early morning...at seven pounds I believe...

The first thing my mama saw about me as an infant was that I had a huge nose....

Thank goodness that's not the case now... XD

[Peegee]

Brain damage would explain a lot about you.

Oh that was an original retort. Did mandee make that up for you to say?

[Shlup]

Oh yeah, Rod reminded me: When I was being born my Nana was at my great grandpa's funeral. He was my last living great grandpa, so I never met any of them.

ETA: Srsly, PG, Raist is all up on the obvious jokes today.

[rubah]

I was delivered by cæsarian section at 7:01 AM. I was kinda a douche as a fœtus.

[Bunny]

I was not birthed. I happened.

[Peegee]

Oh yeah, Rod reminded me: When I was being born my Nana was at my great grandpa's funeral. He was my last living great grandpa, so I never met any of them.

ETA: Srsly, PG, Raist is all up on the obvious jokes today.

Maturnal grandfather died when mommy was 17. Paternal died when I was 5.5-6, maybe 7. I don't know.

Nobody tells me when people die. I didn't know that an uncle and a..grand uncle (grandmother's brother) died until months later.

PS: stop blaming him for your bad jokes.

[G13]

I don't remember much but there was a lot of screaming and some asshole spanked me. I told him "I'm not into that , bro!" and he gave me to the screaming woman. I swore revenge on him that day.

The real details are in here. It's all I know as I'm not in the habit of asking about a possible horrific event in a babies life. I mean have you ever thought about why we don't remember? It's because we block it out as babies. No one wants to remember the moment they exploded forth from their mother's... Anyways, here it is.I dumped on the doctor so he handed me to the intern and I took a leak on him... because I'm a rebel!

[Rantz]

When I escaped from the moist embrace of the vulva, the earth shook and there was a hellish laugh from below that was heard from China to Sahara. Fiery the angels fell, and deep thunder rolled around the shores, but most ominous of all... that night, Oprah was cancelled.

[xXsarahXx]

I was born on October the 15th, right in the middle of the worst storm Britain has seen An omen? Maybe so Muhahahahahahahahahaha.

Thats all I know, unfortunately my mum died 10 years back and my dads too drunk to ask details about how I came into the world.

[~*~Celes~*~]

my mom went into labor at 2 am and my dad, who was playing NES Zelda at the time, said "I'll take you to the hospital after this dungeon." Is it any wonder i'm a gamer?

I was born at 8:03 am on Sunday, September 9th, 1990. My mom heard another woman in the maternity ward was in labor the same time as her, and so she worried about the other woman the whole time she was in labor with me cause she sounded worse off xD

Fun fact: A kid I graduated with was born the same day as me only two hours earlier than I was. Every birthday, we share the same joke: "happy birthday! you stole my birthday!" 'tis awesome.

Also the whole time my mom was pregnant, I kept my legs crossed so they didn't know what i was until i was born.

[Momiji]

I was delivered by cæsarian section at 7:01 AM. I was kinda a douche as a fœtus.

Oh hey, so was I.

My mom got sliced open on February 9, 1990, and I was considered removed and born at 3:32pm.