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Today is the 5th day of the 43rd week, the 27th day of the 10th month, the 301st day of 2016 [I don’t want to know how many days I have left to get ready for Christmas], and:  
  • American Beer Day
  • Boxer Shorts Day
  • Cranky Co-Workers Day
  • Independence Day:  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979, and Turkmenistan from USSR in 1991
  • National Potato Day
  • Navy Day
  • Occupational Therapy Day
  • Sylvia Plath Day
  • World Day for Audiovisual Heritage -- chosen by UNESCO in 2005 to raise of awareness of the significance of and preservation risks of recorded sound and audiovisual documents (films, sound and video recordings, radio and television programs)
ON THIS DAY:  In 312 Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.  In 1275 tradition has it the city of Amsterdam was founded.  In 1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was founded.  In 1904 the first underground New York City Subway line opened; the system became the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.  In 1936 Mrs Wallis Simpson obtained her divorce decree nisi, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.  In 1947 "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio.  In 1961 NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket.  In 1973 a 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite struck Cañon City, Colorado.  In 1986 the British government suddenly deregulated financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.  In 1994 Gliese 229B was the first Substellar Mass Object [an object orbiting another star] to be unquestionably identified.  In 1997 the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 554.26 points, forcing the stock market to shut down.  In 2005 surgeons in France performed the world's first partial face transplant on a woman who was mauled by a dog.

And, 39 years ago today, I became a mother for the second time. 

Back then, we didn’t get ultrasounds before the baby was born unless there was some sort of problem, so I had no idea whether I was carrying a boy or a girl.  The question after “when are you due” was always “do you want a girl or a boy” and the answer was the same “I don’t care as long as the baby is healthy.”  Folklore said that if you carried the baby low, then it was a girl – I was amused to learn that observation has a basis in fact.  You see, as males age, their semen tends to have more X than Y chromosomes, so a later child tends to be female.  And if a woman has had a baby already, her muscles are pre-stretched and she tends to carry lower –  so the usual combo of older father and second child gave rise to that tidbit of folklore wisdom.   I will admit that I felt I was carrying a girl in the last trimester ((and was quietly worried – my relationship with my mother and her’s with her mother were both dysfunctional and I didn’t want to continue that for another generation)).  But we decorated the nursery in a nice neutral bright yellow, although when we went to paint the heavy room door, despite all the coats of sealer, it kept turning a light delicate pink, which we chose in retrospect to accept as foreshadowing the birth of a daughter.  I can still remember Uncle Erf shaking his head when he heard it was a girl and sighing  “rich man’s family”.  Took a bit before I realized what he meant;  many of the things that I had saved from my son’s infancy just wasn’t going to work for this baby.

Another piece of folklore is that any baby who is due, past due or going to come early is going to arrive either at the full moon or the new moon.  Many scientists and doctors have very emphatically debunked this as a myth, but my grandmother as a pediatric nurse used to say they always ramped up staffing at those times.    All I can go by is my own observation My son was two weeks past due and arrived at the full moon; my daughter was a couple days early and arrived at the new moon.  Both times when I was in the labor room, I was the only person there.  A few hours later when I moved into the recovery room [I had very short labors], all the labor rooms were full, and by the time I got to my hospital room,  the staff was scurrying to find beds for those coming to the maternity ward after me..    

These are the kinds of things a mother thinks about when wishing a child happy birthday!




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