To be fair I think of sea lice as a generic term. My understanding is any baby jellyfish can cause it, and it generally affects you underneath your suit. So swim naked is the lesson!
I'm still traumatized from one major incident when I was 8 though. It was so itchy and awful, and I can still smell the rub dad's girlfriend used to quell it. Ugh.
I've also had head lice which is a different kind of hell.
Yet another reason to just wait until the movie comes out on DVD and borrow it from the library.
We got bedbugs from the hospital when Caleb was born. It took 5 weeks before we realized what was wrong, though, because they were only biting me. They stayed mostly in the mattress, the rocking chair and finally got into the co-sleeper. But they only bit me.
YOU CAN GET BEDBUGS FROM A HOSPITAL?! Sorry, sushi , I know you've argued against home births, but they're looking pretty good right about now.
Yet another reason to just wait until the movie comes out on DVD and borrow it from the library.
We got bedbugs from the hospital when Caleb was born. It took 5 weeks before we realized what was wrong, though, because they were only biting me. They stayed mostly in the mattress, the rocking chair and finally got into the co-sleeper. But they only bit me.
YOU CAN GET BEDBUGS FROM A HOSPITAL?! Sorry, sushi , I know you've argued against home births, but they're looking pretty good right about now.
Wait, I'm actually a proponent of home both in low risk/near hospital situations.
Good tips. Another suggestion is that when you enter your hotel room, stick your luggage in the bathroom immediately while you inspect the bed. Bugs rarely appear in bathrooms because there's no decent place to hide. Hell, keep your luggage in the bathroom for your whole stay if inclined.
Yet another reason to just wait until the movie comes out on DVD and borrow it from the library.
We got bedbugs from the hospital when Caleb was born. It took 5 weeks before we realized what was wrong, though, because they were only biting me. They stayed mostly in the mattress, the rocking chair and finally got into the co-sleeper. But they only bit me.
YOU CAN GET BEDBUGS FROM A HOSPITAL?! Sorry, sushi , I know you've argued against home births, but they're looking pretty good right about now.
I'm pretty sure it was because of the fact that I slept in a regular mattress a couple of nights. They discharged me, but Caleb was still getting treatment for jaundice, so they let me stay in the transition room, since it wasn't needed (a room for parents of special needs NICU babies who are ready to go home). It was a regular mattress with no protector on it.
Would you all STOP SAYING THIS! Lies! There are no bedbugs in hospitals. None. Never. *gavel*
I wish so much that there weren't! I'm so worried that I will bring them home.
I do L&D and we are often in our patients rooms for HOURS at a time!
And people looked at me like I was nuts for wanting to get out of there asap. 24 hours after my c-section with DD I was asking what I had to do go home, 4 hours after DS was born. I was begging to go home. Hospitals are not clean!!! They are disgusting, and I am not someone who cares about germs and bugs on a normal basis.
YOU CAN GET BEDBUGS FROM A HOSPITAL?! Sorry, sushi , I know you've argued against home births, but they're looking pretty good right about now.
Wait, I'm actually a proponent of home both in low risk/near hospital situations.
Oops! I wonder who I'm thinking of? I thought that in the last home birth/birthing center discussion, most of the nurses and doctors on here weren't necessarily opposed to them, but did feel that they were riskier than hospitals.
I had wanted to do a home or birthing center (I'm not pregnant and never have been, btw), until Sherry on YHL posted her birth story where her very healthy, uncomplicated birth suddenly became an every second counts, life or death situation. Something with her placenta? I can't remember what it's called, but basically uncontrolled bleeding starts and you can bleed to death in under... 2 minutes? Something crazy like that? She said that when the call went out over the hospital PA, there were doctors and nurses flying out of rooms and running down the hall to the OR at a full sprint, and her husband prepared himself to leave the hospital alone, instead of as a family of three, like they had expected. I live practically next door to a hospital, but there's no way I'd make it there in 2 minutes.
But now there are bedbugs involved? Fuck that shit, man. If anyone tells me that I can try to birth at home or in a birthing center, I think I'll take my chances.
Wait, I'm actually a proponent of home both in low risk/near hospital situations.
Oops! I wonder who I'm thinking of? I thought that in the last home birth/birthing center discussion, most of the nurses and doctors on here weren't necessarily opposed to them, but did feel that they were riskier than hospitals.
I had wanted to do a home or birthing center (I'm not pregnant and never have been, btw), until Sherry on YHL posted her birth story where her very healthy, uncomplicated birth suddenly became an every second counts, life or death situation. Something with her placenta? I can't remember what it's called, but basically uncontrolled bleeding starts and you can bleed to death in under... 2 minutes? Something crazy like that? She said that when the call went out over the hospital PA, there were doctors and nurses flying out of rooms and running down the hall to the OR at a full sprint, and her husband prepared himself to leave the hospital alone, instead of as a family of three, like they had expected. I live practically next door to a hospital, but there's no way I'd make it there in 2 minutes.
But now there are bedbugs involved? Fuck that shit, man. If anyone tells me that I can try to birth at home or in a birthing center, I think I'll take my chances.
I'd think a birthing center would be just as bad. They tend to have more in the way of "home style" bedding rather than plastic mattress hospital beds. No?
Oops! I wonder who I'm thinking of? I thought that in the last home birth/birthing center discussion, most of the nurses and doctors on here weren't necessarily opposed to them, but did feel that they were riskier than hospitals.
I had wanted to do a home or birthing center (I'm not pregnant and never have been, btw), until Sherry on YHL posted her birth story where her very healthy, uncomplicated birth suddenly became an every second counts, life or death situation. Something with her placenta? I can't remember what it's called, but basically uncontrolled bleeding starts and you can bleed to death in under... 2 minutes? Something crazy like that? She said that when the call went out over the hospital PA, there were doctors and nurses flying out of rooms and running down the hall to the OR at a full sprint, and her husband prepared himself to leave the hospital alone, instead of as a family of three, like they had expected. I live practically next door to a hospital, but there's no way I'd make it there in 2 minutes.
But now there are bedbugs involved? Fuck that shit, man. If anyone tells me that I can try to birth at home or in a birthing center, I think I'll take my chances.
I'd think a birthing center would be just as bad. They tend to have more in the way of "home style" bedding rather than plastic mattress hospital beds. No?
I'd think a birthing center would be just as bad. They tend to have more in the way of "home style" bedding rather than plastic mattress hospital beds. No?
Really? Home birth it is!
Yes, because risking your child is better than bed begs.
no, I'm not serious. It's Friday. We need some craziness.