our baby from the hospital as soon as possible. I declined the circumcision on the baby scheduled for later that day that was offered for “cleanliness purposes” and departed the hospital on Tuesday morning. Upon arriving home, company awaited me where I felt obligated to serve coffee and cake. The total cost for this basic routine pregnancy and birth was about $10,000.
Less than a week after arriving home from the hospital, spouse was required to leave on a lengthy business trip. Miraculously, I had the energy and strength to solely care for a two year old and a newborn during this business trip.
I became aware of a new trend that some people were becoming increasingly involved in with regard to the birth of their child. The taking of photographs and the videotaping of childbirth was gaining in popularity with young couples. Thought should be given to this practice as childbirth is a traumatic experience involving the considerable exposure of private body areas and bodily fluids such as blood. To wantonly film or photograph this occasion is in one’s opinion, immoral.
In the summer of this year, spouse and I invited friends, a young couple with a one year old child to visit our home. While the woman and I were in the kitchen chatting, spouse and spouse were in the backyard chatting. The children were both outside in the backyard. Both the woman and I assumed that spouse and spouse were watching the children while we prepared the food to be served. After a short while, I walked outside to discover that the friend’s one year old child was floating on the surface of a one and one half foot deep garden pond installed on our property. Horrified, I quickly ran to lift the child out of the water. The child vomited water but thankfully, appeared to be otherwise fine. Scolding the spouses, I realized that the woman and I had not officially given the responsibility to the men, to watch the children.
During the 1980’s and the early years of the 1990’s, one became annoyed with a device that many people were purchasing and installing in their backyards, known as a “bug zapper”. This gadget when lit at night would draw insects to it and then would electrify the bugs. I stated to spouse that people using this equipment do not realize that they are drawing more bugs into their yard rather than eliminating insects from their yard.
Retrospective: Some methods for assessing a home are unjust and possibly corrupt (this may depend upon who you are). All women should avoid vigorous exercise during pregnancy regardless of the promotion by evil media, of pregnant women shown exercising on television. It is brutal, insensitive, and evil to suggest a “husband’s stitch” to a spouse directly after the woman has given birth to a baby. A person has obviously lost their mind when it is suggested to a spouse who has just given birth to a baby, that the child should have been aborted. The insanity is compounded when this statement is made in front of another woman, who has just given birth to a baby. It appears as though rises in prices, sometimes results in reduced and substandard services. Make clear to all concerned when authority or responsibility is granted or delegated.
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