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11/12/09
*crickets*
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. #strippers
11/12/09
Maybe I've helped too many friends decorate their babies rooms, but to me it sounds something you hang over a crib. #strippers
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I can't believe they were sitting there at two computers in the same house! I wonder if she managed to keep a straight face at all. #strippers
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11/12/09
What on earth, between women dancing without restraints in a moving vehicle and the distraction that women dancing suggestively is bound to cause for all drivers, would lead them to think that there was any doubt in this situation? #strippers
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That's a BMI of 35.4. And I had a perfectly normal labor and delivery and nobody told me to GTFO. He was just a hungry damn baby and weighed over 9 pounds himself. Neither of us had diabetes or ANY PROBLEMS AT ALL.
F*ck you, Weston General. F*ck you right to hell. If you were my local hospital and you had the balls to try something like this on me I'd just sit on the front doorstep and give birth RIGHT THERE IN THE HOSPITAL LOBBY. #strippers
11/12/09
At first take I was mad at this, but from the hospital's perspective, this isn't about discrimination.
I was a really early preemie and my mom was a Type 1 diabetic. She was transferred to 2 different hospitals before the EMTs found one that had a doctor willing to assist with the complicated delivery (which lasted 39 hours, go mom!). The first two hospitals did not believe that they were adequately equipped to help my mom, and in addition were not equipped to help a baby that would need immediate life support.
Some hospitals don't accept trauma patients etc-- on the face, this banning certain types of pregnancies seems like a maddening practice, but if the hospital believes mothers will be in danger, they should not treat them.
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It completely sucks for women in that area who will have to travel farther to receive care-- but I hope it's for a good reason and not just the hospital being a bunch of dicks. #strippers
11/12/09
It seems to me that the hospital is advertising that it cannot deal with any kind of "complicated" childbirth, and if I were of lower than 34 BMI, I would be very hesitant to birth my child in a hospital where the staff may not actually know how to deliver babies. #strippers
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I have a BMI of 38 which is DEATH FAT. I am so fat that the BMI chart indicates I will die from my enormity. I am a size 20. I have absolutely no problem fitting into theatre chairs, standard bed sizes, etc. No special gurneys, beds, tables or scales are neccesary for me. My only complaint are airline seats, but that's more of a gendered complaint from anyone who possesses hips.
Certainly, if a hospital cannot care for me because I have such freakish proportions, they should be shut down. And for those people who require larger scales, beds, chairs, etc, they should acquire some - because some people come in "non-standard" sizes and they are also human beings who may need health care.
This case is one of two things: the staff at the hospital are incompetent, or just want to "punish" fatties - specifically women - by withholding health care. My money's on the latter explanation. I'll bet they have no problem offering incredibly risky weight loss surgery to people over a 34 BMI. #strippers
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In other news, I really thought the woman gets arrested while in labor story was going to be very different (like they tracked down an actual criminal) and was shocked! by the story. But then I remembered that this is America, and my shock faded. #strippers
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However, we couldn't give a fuck about the ones who we DON'T LET deliver here. #strippers
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09/22/09
I also hate when people complain about having to pay people more for jobs like this. Really? You don't think they deserve a decent pay for caring for your children all day???
I hate that jobs like caring for children or cleaning are considered "low" and aren't paid well. Those are some physically and mentally demanding jobs that not many people care to do and deserve our respect and the people doing them deserve to be paid well.
09/22/09
And don't even get me started on the racist assumptions inherent in hiring a nanny from a specific ethnicity because of their supposed ethnic skill set.
09/22/09
In these tough times I have worked as a personal assistant/cleaning lady. It ain't easy. I didn't get paid very much but it was under the table and the people I worked for paid me daily.
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we difineately weren't rich but being in the military meant my mom was away from any help she could have gotten from her family. this was the best option for them. the au pair didn't raise me. she was like a baby sitter or an older sister, since she lived with us.
09/22/09
My family had a nanny that worked for my family for 27 years before she died of lung cancer. I consider her presence in my life one of the greatest gifts my mother ever gave me. My mother was also a deeply loving, involved mother. But, she and my father owned and ran a huge restaurant and the hours were long. They had the financial ability to hire a nanny. I am so very glad they did, because it worked for us as a family and in the end was the best thing for all of us.
Each family and situation is different. People have been paying other people to assist them in raising their children for thousands of years. It is not bizarre. It can be bad, but it can also be great for everyone involved.
09/21/09
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Also--guess who some of the WORST employers of domestic workers are?? Diplomats. No joke--and they get away with it with their diplomatic immunity.
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Ideally, we would value this work, instead of acting like there's some option besides food being prepared, children being cared for, et cetera.
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Knowing my father, he never let that title get to his head. Only his children, friends and wife know his former status. Meh.
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09/21/09
He has a Hispanic nanny.
I guess I should be glad that in the future people won't think I am a nanny since they will be Tibetan, but I still will be confused with gardeners or maids or cooks. :-(
09/22/09