Something interesting happened in the poll from late last week. I forgot to turn it off on Saturday night. In fact the results on Sunday morning were very different than they currently are.
For a reminder, the question was “What should I do with the kids on Sunday?“
As of about 9am Sunday morning, “Visit a relative/friend” was in the lead by a vote or two over “Go to church.” My parents called late Friday night and offered to watch the kids so I was secretly pulling for “Visit a relative/friend” and was therefore pretty happy with the results.
BeAGoodMom and I did some chores and then went on a little date and walked around a ton trying to shake the baby loose with no success. When we got home on last night, I checked the site and noticed that the poll was still running and people were still voting. In the final tally, “Go to church” made a last second rally and pulled into the lead.
Here are the final, final votes.
Go to church – 9 votes
Wander around mall – 0 votes
Go to park – 3 votes
Visit a relative/friend – 7 votes
Go bowling – 6 votes
Go swimming – 3 votes
Go putt-putt golfing – 3 votes
Stay home and kick BeAGoodMom out of the house – 2 votes
Thanks for everybody that voted. Let’s try setting up a new poll for this week.
Should people videotape their child being born?
Go vote. I read the question to BeAGoodMom and she made her vote very loud and clear. Which fortunately is exactly the same as mine.
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No, unless Stephen Spielberg is involved. Then it’s college ed paid for for all three. I think I’ll save my hard earned retirement and wait for the first birthday video:) dad
okay my opinion on this question is definitely biased based on my experience…no, not from birthing a few babies myself but from attending a few in the nearly 18 years of practice as a NICU RN. I have seen many babies born and quite a few videotaped. frankly unless it was a professional videographer, the one doing the taping often got caught up in the act of recording the event rather than participating in or witnessing the event and they often just were not there for the laboring mom (or couple) and sometimes in the way…imagine a camera peering over the shoulder of a doc or midwife while cathcing a baby or over the shoulder of the nurse resuscitating a baby a little too stunned to take that all important first breath….yeah, it has happened to me a few times too many.
my vote is put the camera down and savor this moment because it won’t happen again in the life of this baby.
good luck to you and hey, i love your blog…beagoodmom’s too!
I would have liked my labours to have been filmed. Mostly so I could actually see what on earth was going on down there! And while we wouldn’t share them with the kids untill they were much older (and expressed an interest) it’d be an interesting way of remembering clearly what went on.
Also, there’s the element of being able to bring out the video whenever my partner and I would have a ‘broody’ moment. That would put us right off! (I hate that it’s so difficult to remember the excruciating agony of labour.)
But I agree with what Laura said. The person filming would just be sat there… filming, rather than participating.
If (in a magical world) there was always someone on call available to film a labour (a stranger), and there was always room in the delivery rooms, then I would have easily said to go for it. But as that’s never going to happen, I’ll just live without. (Not that I am EVER going through that again!)