Comments on: Yet another working during childbirth story http://ptlawmom.com/2007/05/30/yet-another-working-during-childbirth-story/ Full-Time Working Mom/Part-Time Evening Law Student Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:21:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Scout's Honor http://ptlawmom.com/2007/05/30/yet-another-working-during-childbirth-story/#comment-514 Scout's Honor Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:45:00 +0000 http://ptlawmom.com/2007/05/30/yet-another-working-during-childbirth-story/#comment-514 Hi! New to your blog and looking through your old archives. I'm a SAHM Mommy of three who hopes eventually to get to law school. Got pregnant my senior year of undergrad...surprise! And then, our latest was a surprise after vasectomy. Just call us rabbits. Anyway, I was just trying to gain perspective of how doable law school would be with kids and a husband with a demanding job. Speaking of which, my husband was the one who took conference calls in the labor room. What an ass-hat. I love him, but he'll never live that one down. He had to go out on the patio while I was dilated to six to get better cell reception. Big mistake! I banned the cell phone from the recovery room--even though one of his bosses wanted another conference call in the recovery room in the first hours of my son's life. You can never get those precious first moments back. I can't even imagine a mother doing that. Wow! That's hard-core in a very bad way. Hi! New to your blog and looking through your old archives. I’m a SAHM Mommy of three who hopes eventually to get to law school. Got pregnant my senior year of undergrad…surprise! And then, our latest was a surprise after vasectomy. Just call us rabbits.

Anyway, I was just trying to gain perspective of how doable law school would be with kids and a husband with a demanding job.

Speaking of which, my husband was the one who took conference calls in the labor room. What an ass-hat. I love him, but he’ll never live that one down. He had to go out on the patio while I was dilated to six to get better cell reception. Big mistake! I banned the cell phone from the recovery room–even though one of his bosses wanted another conference call in the recovery room in the first hours of my son’s life. You can never get those precious first moments back. I can’t even imagine a mother doing that. Wow! That’s hard-core in a very bad way.

]]> By: LRH http://ptlawmom.com/2007/05/30/yet-another-working-during-childbirth-story/#comment-114 LRH Thu, 31 May 2007 15:26:26 +0000 http://ptlawmom.com/2007/05/30/yet-another-working-during-childbirth-story/#comment-114 Not to mention the fact that work you do while in extreme pain and/or anesthetized, to put it mildly, isn't going to be your best. This is a dangerous step backward for working women in general. Women who work during childbirth are embracing the fallacy that women are somehow not good employees unless they can be exactly like men. The fact is, women who aren't afraid to be women bring some unique and desirable qualities to the table -- qualities men don't have. Not to mention the fact that work you do while in extreme pain and/or anesthetized, to put it mildly, isn’t going to be your best. This is a dangerous step backward for working women in general. Women who work during childbirth are embracing the fallacy that women are somehow not good employees unless they can be exactly like men. The fact is, women who aren’t afraid to be women bring some unique and desirable qualities to the table — qualities men don’t have.

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