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JessickerFletcher
11/19/09

In reply to Skip To My Loo
What type of gift is customary to World Toilet Day?

On second thought, I don't want to know.
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TransFat
11/19/09

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For anyone that was bummed they didn't have somewhere to go bathroom as cool as that kitty spacepod from the other day.
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SkipToMyLou
11/19/09

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Oh, a post just for me! And on my favourite holiday, World Toilet Day.

I'll think of you later Anna, as we celebrate with the traditional unwrapping of the toilet paper, and the giving of urinal cakes. Yay World Toilet Day!
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Lymed
11/19/09

@SkipToMyLou: Now we all know what to get you for your birthday.
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SkipToMyLou
11/19/09

@Lymed: Now you've ruined the surprise :(

Never mind, there's always Bidet Day!
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GirlFailer
11/19/09

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I always get nervous walking into the toilets in foreign countries. You never know what it's going to look like. Sometimes it's a normal bowl, other times it's a porcelain trench you have to squat over, and sometimes it sprays you in the butt if you push the wrong button.
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Kivrin
11/19/09

@GirlFailer: I've heard that the vast majority of public restrooms in China do not provide toilet paper. I am not okay with this.
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Lymed
11/19/09

@GirlFailer: For me its the whether or not you can flush paper down question that gets me. And then trying to explain to other Americans that it is their fault their toilet keeps overflowing, once you realize the answer is no.
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GirlFailer
11/19/09

@Kivrin: They didn't have it in Okinawa in a lot of places, too. They sell these little rolls of charmin, and I carried them with me. I'm not a fan of the drip dry method.

#tips
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BestEuphemismEver
11/19/09

@Kivrin: I went to the bogs in Shanghai, and you paid at a desk at the front for loo paper. Memorable.
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GirlFailer
11/19/09

@Lymed: Yeah, sometimes I wonder if it's common in certain countries to not poo in public. It would make sense with the lack of TP, and the easily overflowing toilets.
#tips
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lilyHaze
11/19/09

@Lymed: This was repeatedly explained to us when we went to Nicaragua for a volunteer mission. Also, no flushing for #1.
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Lymed
11/19/09

@GirlFailer: The overflowing toilets are more an issue of plumbing capacity which often is related to the economic condition of the community.
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Confabulatia
11/19/09

@Kivrin: Toilet paper is not the scary part; you carry a small packet with you. The scary part is squatting over a little trench with NO DIVIDERS and fifty older women squatting/watching you. (This was in Beijing at a tourist restroom, and they're not all like that.)
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shorty63136
11/19/09

In reply to Skip To My Loo
Do you have to climb up into those??
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Daniele
11/19/09

@shorty63136: I was just gonna say the same thing. That would suck if you *really* had to go. Poor lady is gonna need a step stool (no pun intended....okay maybe. ) to get into that thing. Get it? Stool? Ok, whatever.
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burningdinner
11/19/09

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Do they make Hallmark cards for this one?
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Ailatan
11/19/09

@burningdinner: Poo Poo, Congratulations on that new loo!
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burningdinner
11/19/09

@Ailatan: Be happy; look dapper! Let's celebrate the crapper!
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Ailatan
11/19/09

@burningdinner: For every King, there's a Throne!

Also, for ladies (in pink, of course)
For every Queen, there's a throne!
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Twerpsichore
11/19/09

@burningdinner: Wonder why that ice is blue? / Happy Toilet Day to you.
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PhillyLass
10/10/09

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There's more to worry about in addition to the matter of prenatal care. Are people dropping their bodily fluids onto the tracks? How is this not a public health crisis?!!
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anonymousryan
10/09/09

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So Indian railroad tracks are just covered in shit?
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NotMandatory
10/09/09

@anonymousryan: Railroads everywhere are covered in shit. That's why there's a no-flushing-in-stations rule.
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unreliable narrator
10/09/09

In reply to Baby Survives Fall From Train Toilet
i have to say, the issue for me isn't so much that these women are giving birth on the toilet (like others have said, this can happen anywhere), but that whatever leaves your body and goes into the toilet just ends up on the train tracks. That seems to me to be the more significant problem that's illustrated in this story.
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NotMandatory
10/09/09

@unreliable narrator: The toilets on trains in the UK also drain straight on to the tracks. We have signs that tell you not to flush while you're in the station for just that reason. I always assumed this happened everywhere!
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Cimorene
10/09/09

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Ok, having never had a baby, I am a bit confused. Isn't there an umbilical cord that connects mama and baby, which is how baby gets mama's food and such when baby lives inside mama? So when the baby fell from this woman's vagina down the toilet onto the tracks, wasn't there a cord that connected them? Or would it just have, like, ripped? That seems dangerous. Not as dangerous as falling out of a toilet onto train tracks from a moving train. But still. Dangerous.

Can someone who's actually gone through a birth from the mama's point of view explain how this might work?
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padraigin
10/09/09

@Cimorene: The umbilical cord is connected to the placenta, which usually takes a little effort to expel once the baby itself has been delivered.

Now, I've had an incredibly fast birth before, but even still, it was several minutes and a little bit of effort before the placenta followed.
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wembles
10/09/09

@Cimorene: the umbilical cord is attached to the placenta and amniotic sac, not to mommy. the attachment to mommy happens through a system of capillary exchanges between the uterus and the arterial system of the placenta, which belongs to baby. since the placenta came out with the baby, so did the umbilical cord.

the part of the birth that they don't show you on tv is when the mother has a few more contractions to get rid of the placenta. mini-labour.
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blue_streak
10/09/09

@Cimorene: The umbilical cord is connected to the placenta. It sounds like she delivered the placenta at the same time as her baby.
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blue_streak
10/09/09

@blue_streak: Oh sorry for repeating everyone. I didn't realize I wasn't seeing hidden threads as usual.
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Gumbina80
10/09/09

In reply to Baby Survives Fall From Train Toilet
Either human babies are more durable than they are given credit for, or these trains travel at low speeds.
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MIXED
10/09/09

@Gumbina80: Babies are made of this magically durable material, and we never even KNEW it cause we just never dropped 'em from speeding trains right onto the tracks.
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o-line
10/09/09

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This story and a few stories from I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant are really making adult diapers sound like a plausible option for me.
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lizziesaint
10/09/09

@o-line: yeah! Half the women on that show unknowingly "poop" the baby out in the toilet. Maybe I was misinformed or something, but doesn't labor take a bit more effort than dropping the average deuce?
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Sarah Dove
10/09/09

@lizziesaint: It varies from woman to woman and birth to birth. Some babies just shoot out yelling 'WHEEEEE!'
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Meangirl.is.for.the.Horde
10/09/09

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So, to be clear, seconds after giving birth this women jumped from a moving train and then ran close to a mile?

My uterus does not know whether to cringe or applaud.
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Cimorene
10/09/09

@Meangirl.is.for.the.Horde: I think the train stopped a mile after she jumped. Like, baby fell out, woman jumps from train and passenger pulls emergency break, train takes 1 mile to go from very fast to stopped. Inertia, and all.
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lodown
10/09/09

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Can someone who's given birth or knows something about this tell me how common this kind of quick, somewhat easy-seeming birth can be? I did not think babies could just 'pop out' like that.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
10/09/09

@lodown: I know a girl on another board who had her baby in a bathtub waiting for the ambulance to come get them. She realized she was in labor, called her husband, he called an ambulance, she realized the baby was COMING and got in the tub and it popped right out.

I also know people who had several days of labor. Like ShanaElmsford said, every delivery is different.
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la.donna.pietra
10/09/09

@lodown: All the women on my mom's side of the family push once and voila, baby. My mom went into labor with me right after lunch and got home in time for dinner. Seriously. I was my mom's first (and only) kid, too. The downside was that the doctor on duty didn't believe her when she told him about her mother and aunts giving birth like this, and he wandered off, assuming that she was going to spend the next 16 hours in labor. A shocked nurse caught me coming out about three minutes later.

I like these genes, personally.
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formergr
10/10/09

@la.donna.pietra: Jealous!! My mom had hellish 24-hr labors...
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lodown
10/10/09

@lodown: Oh man, thanks for all the stories, guys! I'd always thought labor was usually hard and long. The exercise thing is an interesting angle. I wonder if kegels or something like that would help?
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schweppes
10/09/09

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I think women in India have awful prenatal care. Giving birth in a toilet, however, is not a symptom of it.
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Sadako
10/09/09

@schweppes: Yeah, this was my reaction. How would pre natal care figure into it? Even if you have the best care in the world, that isn't going to stop people from being in a situation where a baby might come out when they're on the toilet.
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