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I it's hard to not feel scared. Everyone does. I've had SIX c-sections and even after my second,third ect I would want to run the other way once I walked into that hospital. and I have a high pain tolerance. It's not so much the sugery, or even the recovery, it's those moments leading up to the inevidable and not knowing what the outcome will be, for certain.


It's expecially scary the very first time. You read all these wonderful things about 'birth plans' and feel you missed out on that, or have no controle over the birthing of your child what so ever. It'll be aright. Your  actually do have the controle!

Ask for an epideral so you may stay awake durring the birth. You can talk to the docters and nurses and hear your baby's first cry. You can even watch them test  and measure your child and the daddy can hold your baby! Once in recovery, chances are they let you hold and try to  nurse the baby too.  Note-- I highly recomend nursing at least for a while. It helps to shrink your uterous and slow any bleeding. If the nurses don't think that uterous is shrinking well (as the case of bottle fed babies) they will try to stimulate by either patosin (sp?) or massaging. Uncomfortable!

After the surgery, and you are put in your room, they will have you roll from one side, rest for a couple hours, then have you move to the other. It does hurt, but the more you do this, the easier the recovery. You will start feeling better the next day, trust me. Once you can sit on the edge of the bed and walk to the bathroom on your own, you'll notice that caring for your baby takes on any priority at all. The pain lessons quite a bit and just holding that darling little miracle is all you'll want to do. When the nurses come to bring the baby back to the nursery, you'll find yourself having a hard time sleeping, because you want that baby back in your arms! Day three, you ache allot less and want to go home...day four, you're ready and find a whole new sets of parental worries! hehe

So, it's okay to feel scared. It's okay to feel overwhelmed with worry. Just take a deep breath and one day at a time. One experience at a time.

hahaha...
now that little guy wearing the hood looks like he's NOT exactly happy to be going back to school.


great images everyone!

Okay, so far today the little quirt gun works.


Umm I think.

Cloud dosn't find the water offensive enough to run away, but he pauses and looks a bit confused. Meggi-Jo has a cheap  little novelty squirt gun she keeps hooked to her jean belt..and when he gets to close to her, she squirts him. So far she got his nose, and his eye. It does stop him in his track and when he stops, the other kids praise him for being a good boy.


Time will tell.

Yes, I know Pyrs Paw. But this has me extremly puzzled on just how to stop.

I have a five month old male Pyr (Cloud) who weighs in at 75lbs. He is very sweet, very gentle, and very very clumsy.

He's taken to skipping after my five year old daughter, then tapping the back of her shins to get her attention. She shreiks and runs...he lopes after her, and tries to lick her all better while nudging her with his BIG paw.

No matter how short I keep his nails, they leave welts. It's just the way things are

He's finished his puppy classes and will be going to basic obydiance in two weeks but what can I do to keep peace between these two? She's misserable and rightfully so and he's confused and does his best to "fix the baby" with sloppy kisses and nudging paws.

Oh, his Paws are huge, by the way. I dont mean "Wow, big paws on that dog." but huge as in they are bigger then my hand

I love Cloud and all his pure innocence. How clumsy he is when he tries to move his big paws, tripping over twigs and landing on his nose. Pretty funny for a 57lb four month old. But the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen him do was this morning.

 Last night, my young daughter had growing pains. Her little joints begin to ache. There’s only so much I can do to help her but one of the things she counts on is a chance to hold my doll. I have this lovely little weighted baby doll that looks and feels like a real baby…including rooted hair. 

She fell asleep on the couch, and later when feeling better went to bed. The doll, however, fell face first into some pillows on the ground.

So this morning, I’m awakening by a frantic slurping tongue on my nose. I blink and there’s Cloud’s big brown eyeball looking right into mine while he gives a high-pitched whine. He leads me to the living room, easing over to the “baby” on the ground and starts to nuzzle and nose the “baby”, licking and trying to wake it up. Poor Cloud was beside himself with worry!   It had to be a “real” baby to him. It smelled like a child, it weighted when he nudged it and it must have still had some of the warmth from my little girl. It just…wasn’t breathing! 

I just carefully picked it up and cradled the doll to my chest, scratched his head and told him he was a good boy. I sure hope I didn’t confuse him too much! It's just in a way, that's good he was trying to ask me for help.

Does she have a page on petfinder? I might be able to have rescue look into this.

I'm not sure. This was emailed to me with permission to cross post.

Here's the best information you can ever get about guinea pigs.

http://guinealynx.info/

 They have a forum, too. But be warned, they are very pro-rescue and do not like breeding/breeders