Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When our last one was born, 8 years ago, I had my M6 and a Noctilux with me. Frankly, I could of done just as well with a Summilux. Today, I'd pull out my focus-calibrated Canon S90 for it. S.d. On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Ken Carney wrote: > Great. For our last child, my wife wanted to do the "Lamaze natural > childbirth" thing. I went to classes with her, and as nearly as I could > tell my role was to be in the delivery room to offer support with > breathing etc. Anyway, our last was three weeks premature. On a rush > trip to the ER, spouse wanted "the ******* shot". Too late, they said, it > is happening now. So I was in the delivery room in a gown and mask, > offering support. This now involved holding spouse's hand, which kept > pressing fingernails into my palm, causing a substantial blood loss (no > single-malt in the delivery room). Every once in a while an assistant > would pass me a towel to wipe up the blood and give me an easily > translatable look. Such fun, but the kid turned out OK so no regrets. > > Ken > > On 9/19/2010 6:44 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote: >> >> >> I know very well how to delivery babies.... been there about 200 times >> shooting, watching, listening to directions and all the necessary >> interesting thingies. :-) And watched a couple of "father's to be faint!" >> We just left them on the floor until the important part was finished. :-) >> One guy put his camera up, looked through the viewfinder at the mother's >> crotch as the baby was emerging and promptly collapsed to the floor! ... >> hell he never even went "click! :-) The ruth is.... trust me.... >> "" THERE ISN'T ANY PICTURE THERE THE MOTHER WOULD WANT TO SEE IN ANY >> EVENT!" >> The doc step around him for a few minutes until a couple of nurses >> dragged him out of the way! :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information