International Pro's and Ex-Cons - FTW

[GandD 5,966]

Ha what's it called, sitting the month or something? No baths, no outside, no nothing. Ridiculous tradition.

[Operator 1,927]

Congratulations, Operator!

Is your MIL going to you let you take the baby outside?

Thanks! MIL is going outside via the window very shortly. She's been here just over a week and I'm about to strangle her, so is my wife.

Ha what's it called, sitting the month or something? No baths, no outside, no nothing. Ridiculous tradition.

Yue Zi, my wife isn't really following it. She showered yesterday thank god. Mom said to her "don't use your cell phone during yuezi". Wife "Why" and mom said "I don't know, just don't". Luckily most of the hospitals here are following Western medicine.

They actually have Yue Zi hotel/spa deals where the mom and baby check in to a 5 star joint and someone takes care of you. It runs about $5K but includes food.

[TBoneTX 45,583]

The food justifies the $5K ?!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Thanks! MIL is going outside via the window very shortly. She's been here just over a week and I'm about to strangle her, so is my wife.

Yue Zi, my wife isn't really following it. She showered yesterday thank god. Mom said to her "don't use your cell phone during yuezi". Wife "Why" and mom said "I don't know, just don't". Luckily most of the hospitals here are following Western medicine.

They actually have Yue Zi hotel/spa deals where the mom and baby check in to a 5 star joint and someone takes care of you. It runs about $5K but includes food.

Ha ha! Kinda btdt . Good luck. Give the mil the boot asap IMO;)

[GandD 5,966]

Thanks! MIL is going outside via the window very shortly. She's been here just over a week and I'm about to strangle her, so is my wife.

Yue Zi, my wife isn't really following it. She showered yesterday thank god. Mom said to her "don't use your cell phone during yuezi". Wife "Why" and mom said "I don't know, just don't". Luckily most of the hospitals here are following Western medicine.

They actually have Yue Zi hotel/spa deals where the mom and baby check in to a 5 star joint and someone takes care of you. It runs about $5K but includes food.

This is the reason for like half of Chinese traditions from what I've seen. At one point there was logic for the tradition, its just rarely re-evaluated for overall usefulness in the modern age.

[Operator 1,927]

Ha ha! Kinda btdt . Good luck. Give the mil the boot asap IMO;)

I could write a book about her, a living nightmare. I gave her the benefit of the doubt for years but now I know she is just a miserable person. Tradition and mild sympathy allows her to be here for now.

This is the reason for like half of Chinese traditions from what I've seen. At one point there was logic for the tradition, its just rarely re-evaluated for overall usefulness in the modern age.

You are right, I'm always amazed when someone can reasonably explain why something is done in a certain way and the benefit of it. Given their long cultural and scientific history why are they still asking families what they want to do with the placenta after the baby is born???

[GandD 5,966]

This is kinda fun

[Merrytooth 5,748]

I could write a book about her, a living nightmare. I gave her the benefit of the doubt for years but now I know she is just a miserable person. Tradition and mild sympathy allows her to be here for now.

You are right, I'm always amazed when someone can reasonably explain why something is done in a certain way and the benefit of it. Given their long cultural and scientific history why are they still asking families what they want to do with the placenta after the baby is born???

Seems like there are some people who eat the placenta since it is considered to be very nutritious in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

-> Clean and dry it, make into powder form, or cook in tonic soup.

[GandD 5,966]

[Operator 1,927]

Seems like there are some people who eat the placenta since it is considered to be very nutritious in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

-> Clean and dry it, make into powder form, or cook in tonic soup.

They believe this because Qin said it had health properties and could lengthen your life but that was 2,200 years ago. The hospital asks you what you want to do with it because, like you say some people want to consume it; which is legal and some people want to take it home and bury it so the hospital won't sell it because that is illegal but still very common. Hospital workers and nurses will take them from the delivery room and sell them for about 20 kuai apiece (about $3).

I saw several families in the waiting room carrying plastic bags full of after birth. I think the consumption of human tissue is something best left 2,200 years ago.

[TBoneTX 45,583]

Seems like there are some people who eat the placenta since it is considered to be very nutritious in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

-> Clean and dry it, make into powder form, or cook in tonic soup.

The bachelor-dinner version is "afterbirth on toast," yum man.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Happy Friday Losers!

[Operator 1,927]

Happy Friday Losers!

Your wife sounded like she was genuinely concerned when you fell out of that chair.

[Teddy B 17,252]

Your wife sounded like she was genuinely concerned when you fell out of that chair.

She was fine once she found out the chair didn't break.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

HAPPY FRIDAY LOSERS!!!! I am going back to the land of my forefathers on Thursday for eight days, where I will partake of local delicacies: white clam pizza and birch beer. Mr U will be with me and my brother and SIL will be there too -- the first time all of us will have ever been together. In the interim, I have my Civil Procedure final exam tomorrow at 2pm. Pray for me.