a special moment
June 28, 2008
Peaberry‘s umbilical cord fell off … on my watch!
It was 2 AM—I was taking “first shift” with the baby. I squealed with glee when I opened her up for a change, and out fell her cord. Amy was hoping it would happen with me instead of her (since it grosses her out). And we both were hoping it would happen sooner rather than later (it seemed to be taking forever!).
I figured the moment was photo-worthy, since Mom was missing it.
And while I knew Amy was skeeved out by it, I didn’t think I should make the official decision to throw the cord out. So I put it in a snack-sized ziplock bag and left it on the counter! Amy quickly pitched it in the morning.
Good thing pictures last forever…
@mandythompson says:
ewwww…
and i mean like SUPER ewww!!!!
i was kind of banking on getting an “ewww” outta you!
That is so disgustingly awesome.
@atangie says:
Celebrate the small stuff, eh? :-/ I am glad that you found this milestone blogworthy material – you are doing great documenting the journey. I love it!
Ha! That is awesome.
My smile is huge right now. Just so you know.
Ya! Thats a memory that will last forever! It is kinda gross…but its special all at the same time. Something that will never happen again….I am all smiled too :-)
it just…falls off?? yeah, that is disgusting.
I can’t believe you touched it.
skeeevy!
ewwwwwwwws-ness-ers-ness. (BIL-TONG… like Natalie says it)
i remember when my baby cousin’s fell off. nasty. just plain eww.
I’ve actually known people who have kept them for the baby book…..now that is gross! Andrew’s came off a week after he was born and I was so glad! You’re getting a lot of good practice on newborns…..such a weird time, but I loved it! :) Good thing little Peaberry is coming to live in SA soon!! I think you’re hooked! :)
Um, yeah…that is totally rad. I love stuff like that.
@tamhodge says:
uh. i am So glad i am all done with that stage.
now excuse me…i need to go lie down….
I did NOT want to see that. That’s just nasty!
You’re hilarious!!!
My guy’s wouldn’t fall off so the doctor burned it off…very scary for mom…he didn’t feel a thing.
Then you put it in a baggy for her to find???
And she calls you friend?! Hilarious…
yes, I think Natalie put it perfectly…
digustingly awesome.
Okay…so am I the only one who can’t get past the pix & poses at TWO AM?!?!?!
Please pretty please will you come take my night shift?! *wink*
…danielle
@mandythompson says:
i aim to please.
@mandythompson says:
& yeah. danielle. she looks incredible at 2:00am.
people like that make me crazy.
i mean, i love you, al.
nat — perfectly said.
gigi — it seemed definitely blogworthy to me!
roo — hee hee… i’m glad that made you smile!
alex — :)
kelly — i know, right?!?!
hannah — your “BILTONG” remark was perfect! absolutely perfect! i kept telling amy it looked like beef jerky!
sarah — in the baby book? nast. in the hospital, they did ask amy if she wanted them to dispose of the placenta or if she wanted it for anything. we were like… UHHHH… GROSS!
KA — “rad” made me giggle.
tam — you feelin’ ok now???
bean — sorry ’bout that!
michelle — it had to be burned off? oh my cow. that’s so much worse than it just falling off. so. much. worse.
becca — i concur.
yeller — i wish i COULD take your night shift!!! miss you…
mandy — c’mon about the 2AMlook. i hadn’t gone to bed or anything yet; was just couching it with bubula. sheeeesh.
i have seen the doo after is was cut short and by those pickture she has not laid her head on a pillow yet.
you should share a morning doo pickture with the blog friends. so charming
it is funny how when you are old things fall of you but when you get old it looks like they are trying but just not succeeding in the endevour. it just sags……..
@danielleH says:
That danielle was not me. This one is me.
I still wish you could take my night shift, though. :)
I think it’s funny that all the non-parents are grossed out…I simply thought, “great, now she can take a bath”.
on vacation in travserse city now.
hombre — you’re right! my bedhead morning do is way more horrifying than my daytime do. (shamus.)
anti-blogger — ’tis true that the older you are, the more things sag. and now that i’m older than i ever was before…. UH-OH!
yeller — oops! ha ha. i didn’t really pay attention, cause i totally thought that was you! and YES — we are excited to give her a real bath now. hopefully tonight! (how’s traverse city???)
OTHER danielle (trevor’s hope danielle) — sorry for my confusion up there. but i wish i could help with YOUR night shift too! hope all is well!
at least it wasn’t a circ ring! And yes, people have saved those…..but not me.
And the belly button thingy falling off…. I have done it three times and it seemed worse each time. I hate when it dangles. EWWW!!! If it was a bad dangle and I KNEW it was going to come off, I would call my mom (who lived down the street) and invite her to come “hang out” and pass the next diaper off to her. HAHA!!! It became a game of sorts to see who would get stuck with the nasty. Me, Jake, or my mom. heehee
SO SO SO GROSS. Those pics kinda make me *gag* HAHA!!
@ventigrace says:
I love that the photos made it into this post… nasty and fabulous all at the same time. I’m SOOOO glad Peaberry shared this special moment with you :)
bran — a circ ring?!?! what is THAT?!?! and i love hearing bout the “game” you had going with your mom at dangly time.
amy — i am soooooo glad, too! and i still laugh that you had to discover it in the ziplock the next morning. oh dear.
Yes, they asked me if I wanted my placenta too. I was like, “Um, no thanks!” When Andrew was circ’ they gave Kev the foreskin in a little jar! I took one look and tossed it! There are just some things in life you can’t keep……foreskins and placenta’s rank right up there on the top! ha!
holy crow. are you serious?!?! that is disgusting!!
BLECH!
@mandythompson says:
remember my post about the guy who used his wife’s placenta as fertilizer? kept it in their freezer for three months waiting on planting season.
and, yes, you need a wake-up-in-the-morning pic for sure!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
Since I switched to Pediatric/Labor & Delivery floors recently, I have seen all of the above “disgusting” things. They don’t bother me a bit, in fact, I find it all kind of fascinating! Weird, I know! However, Alece … you don’t really need to know what a circ ring and not all docs use them anymore. But, if you want to know – ask me in a private email to protect your friends who don’t wish to be grossed out.
What I noticed about the pic, after seeing how gorgeous you are at 2am … is that in photo #2 you held up the cord right in line under your nose … and it looked a little like a mustache. Groucho Marx – ish? Made me chuckle.
What a great friend you are taking the night shift!
mandy — oh you’ll get to see my bedhead soon enough!
roo’s mom — well, you’ve definitely got me curious now! let’s email! and yes… it does look a bit groucho marxish! ha!
Ok I saw these pictures on your facebook, I got sick to my stomach and started a mild headache. I then come over here and after reading all this and trying to not make direct eye contact with the pictures again, I feel really sick!!! This is nasty. I was going to say something else but I can’t even think straight!!
@atangie says:
They put the circ’ ring on Timothy when he was born… weird and gross – yet effective.
faith — sorry for grossing you out so much! i never thought the pictures would really bother people all that much. amy hasn’t been able to take more than a fleeting glance at them either! and i thought i had a weak stomach for this sorta thing…
gigi — i have an idea of where this is going, but you need to fill in the blanks for me on this circ de solei business…
The circ de soilei…….too funny!
I think your “idea” is running in the right direction! :)
haha! too funny!
hee hee!
@atangie says:
Circ’ means circumcision. Instead of the snip they put on a plastic ring that works its way off slowly (takes a week or something like that) and one day you go to change the diaper and you find (as you did with the cord of Peaberry) the foreskin of your baby boy. And he no longer has a turtle-neck, er he is no longer a gentile, er, um – he is circumcised.
oh.
my.
cow.
THAT is way way way grosser than the umbilical cord. holy crow.
@mandythompson says:
wow.
why do i return to see what the chatter is about over here? WHY??!!!???
this is one time on this blog that i need this dang code to work:
:shock:
@cassgirl says:
what’s the big deal???
It’s just a little bit of cord.:)
i know, right?! (i think mandy’s freak-out is about the circ ring, though… which is freak-out-worthy!)
Okay, so you’re looking pretty good for 2am… don’t you know you’re supposed to have bags under the eyes and bed head???
@mandythompson says:
no. i’m just freaking out in general these days.
ready.
for.
a.
new.
post.
k.
thx.
leah — oh i get the bags and bedhead. just see me after a few hours sleep as kitty’s gotten to see everyday for a month. sca-ary.
mandy — there IS another post! but apparently “thoughtful” alece isn’t as discussion-worthy as gross alece.
@mandythompson says:
yes.
this is true.
;)
j/k