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Re: What's Your Sign?

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In article <e50p0bFja10U1@mid.individual.net>,
Greg Goss  <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
>djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article
><charlie-gordon1492-88C638.11425227092016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
>>je suis charly  <charlie-gordon1492@no.where> wrote:
>>>In article <57EAA934.5D1E@ix.netcom.com>,
>>> The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's your zodiac sign?
>>>
>>>I was born under the sign Emergency Entrance.
>>
>>That was quick!  I was born under the sign of Maternity Ward.
>>(My mother was 34, or what the medical folk call an "elderly
>>primipara."  I took a while.)
>
>My mother worked till 4:30 the day my sister was born.  There was a
>lot of cleaning up to do before taking time off.  She then drove
>herself home, and was driven back into town to the hospital.  My
>sister was born on a gurney in an  elevator on the way to Maternity at
>about 7:30.  A fourth kid to a 42 year old.

A doctor of my acquaintance once told me, "The First Rule of
Obstetrics is, 'Never trust a multipara.'  The Second Rule of
Obstetrics is 'Never trust a primipara either.'"

He also told the tale of when he was an intern, a month or two
into his year, and it was his (and several others') second day in
the OB ward.  The head of OB, a *very* respected senior
physician, gathered them all together and said, "Well, gentlemen,
you've had a day or so to get used to things around here, and it
is now time for me to tell you how to tell false labor from
true labor."  And all the young interns leaned forward eagerly to
listen, and he said, "The difference between false labor and true
labor is that true labor results in the delivery of an infant,"
and off he went through the swinging doors before they could say
a word.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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What's Your Sign? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-09-27 10:15 -0700
  Re: What's Your Sign? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-09-27 10:19 -0700
  Re: What's Your Sign? je suis charly <charlie-gordon1492@no.where> - 2016-09-27 11:42 -0700
    Re: What's Your Sign? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-09-27 23:32 +0000
      Re: What's Your Sign? Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-09-27 16:49 -0700
        Re: What's Your Sign? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-09-27 19:38 -0700
      Re: What's Your Sign? Serigo <invalid@invalid.com> - 2016-09-27 20:16 -0500
        Re: What's Your Sign? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-09-28 01:59 +0000
      Re: What's Your Sign? Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-09-27 20:42 -0600
        Re: What's Your Sign? djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-09-28 04:05 +0000
  Re: What's Your Sign? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-09-28 09:19 -0700
  Re: What's Your Sign? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-09-30 15:43 -0700
  Re: What's Your Sign? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-02 13:30 -0700
    Re: What's Your Sign? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-02 13:38 -0700

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