Little Matt, Alex, and the Plastic Hoo Hah (CTL 16)
Countdown to Laughter
Issue 16
Monday is our last scheduled baby shower, so come Monday at
Here comes the science……They induce pregnancy by introducing hormones via an I.V. drip that starts the uterine walls to contracting. There are also quite a few folk medicine methods.
There has been a bit of controversy over the “Castor Oil” method of induction. My mother in law says it didn’t work for her, but my sister swears by it. My cousin Erin sent a recipe that works “9 out of 10” times that involves eating as much Kraft Macaroni and Cheese with A-1 sauce as possible. The baby will come in 24 hours according to the website (and when has the internet ever been wrong?). One of the more common methods of natural induction is to engage in sexual intercourse. Well I guess if it’s for
Matt and Alex came down this weekend, and we had a pretty terrific time doing all the things I’ll never get to do again once the baby arrives. We played music together (Little Matt on mandolin, Alex on banjo, and I played guitar), drank beer, played golf, saw a couple of movies, played X-box, and went out to a baseball game. We laughed a lot, ate a lot, and got very little sleep. It was like a really short intense vacation, and I feel ready to move on to fatherhood.
One of the funniest moments this weekend was on Friday night, Nancy, the guys and I were talking about the delivery process, and Alex said that he still didn’t get how it all worked. Luckily I had a visual aid, a slightly larger than life size plastic model of the female reproductive system I had bought at a museum garage sale. When I presented it to the guys to explain, Matt exploded with laughter, Alex could barely look directly at it, and
After the guys left for D.C. I got out the video camera and charged it up to do a technical rehearsal (not that it will come within a
We are ready.
Big Matt
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