I loved the Tom Cruise/Scientology slam by Jordan. As a mother of two, I can totally relate to wanting to throw your screaming baby out a window, and the fact that Turk gasped in horror was spot on…it takes another mother to understand.
I missed last week…where did Kim go, and how did JD move in with Elliot? I’m also not clear on how Elliot can be in private practice and still be working at the hospital. I understand she probably has privileges, but how does handing off her patients at 5pm relate to responsibility and billing and such?
I too loved the Tom Cruise snark. It’s so funny that Jordan said she wanted to throw Jack out the window - that’s just what my best friend told me about her son, when we had a similar conversation. I on the other hand just wanted to give my daughter up for adoption a couple times (usually at 3 a.m.), so I really related to Carla saying, “We have to take her back!”
It was nice to see a TV mom breastfeeding - they did a good job of conveying it without, obviously, having the actress actually nurse someone’s baby.
I think my favorite part was Cox throwing a goat into the apartment for Jordan - “I wasn’t finished!” That and the Jurassic Park nod.
Well, it was quite obvious she wasn’t nursing, since she was just holding the baby on her lap rather than belly to belly, which is the best way to nurse. But I liked the towel draped over the shoulder and Turk being so supportive of her.
My husband was horrified by that part. I mean, eyes wide open horrified.
Meanwhile, I’m on the couch laughing. I’ve had mild PPD/PPA, so it hit home. I never wanted to throw my son out the window, but I did sob to my husband that I wanted to trade him for a ‘normal baby’ when he was only sleeping ten minute stretches one night at 4 weeks old.
I also had to explain the Tom Cruise thing to him. He had no idea what she was talking about until I told him.
Good episode. Loved the webcam stuff.
REALLY looking forward to next week. not just because it’s a musical episode, but it’s guest-starring Stephanie D’Abruzzo, of Avenue Q fame.
It was kind of an uncomfortable episode for me because I could totally relate to Carla’s feelings and everything she said, too. Our “baby” just turned 8, but even now I get terrifying flashbacks to those early days of motherhood, including those horrible lactation consultants (mine, not Carla’s). And, just this weekend I horrified my husband by saying “I really wish you had stayed overnight at the hospital when he was born. They kept bringing that baby in for me to feed and all I wanted was to be left alone.” He thought it was terrible that I called him “that baby”.
When my son was born I thought about leaving him by the side of the road. In his carrier of course, far enough off the road near the grass. I wasn’t angry or stressed…I just thought about it in a very calm way.
I never would have done it, but as a new mother, never had a baby before, no clue what the hell you’re doing, your nipples on fire every time he latches on to nurse, no sleep, trying to calm a crying baby while your Navy husband is 3000 miles away…strange thoughts pop into your head.
Then you feel tremendous guilt, until you realize you’re not the only one. My MIL had no milk, and for the first few weeks her firstborn was starving. She was going out of her mind, until a kind doctor in Scotland said in a lovely brogue “The lassie is hungry” and brought out formula. She sucked down three bottles and went to sleep. But before that my MIL also thought of chucking her baby out the car window.
You’re not supposed to talk about those things, which is why I loved this episode. Subconsciously, I know that my feelings about wanting to give my son back and go back to our life pre-baby are normal - but I still feel like the world’s worst mother voicing them. I know Scrubs isn’t a self-help show, but damn, I felt a whole lotta weight lifted off of me last night because someone dared to talk about those negative feelings.
On the not-so-serious side, I loved Janitor’s dance to The Girl From Ipanema.
That’s the horror of it…every new mother feels that way, but you’re afraid to say anything, for fear they’ll lock up you or think you’re a terrible person, and you think you’re all alone.
I’m glad Cox set Turk straight…bless the man’s heart, he was trying to help, but Cox was right…it took another mother to help Carla.
My experience was quite different. While I was on maternity leave, I let my husband sleep while I got up with Susie. After a half hour or so of crying, I would go numb and space out thinking, “I don’t know what to do” and then start crying. It was then that my husband would get out of bed to rescue me and he was always able to calm her down.
I felt like a terrible mother for not being able to figure out how to soothe my baby when my husband was the “baby whisperer”. It was just weird that I would mentally shut down after a period of her crying.
Oh yeah, Scrubs, right? Good episode. I agree that the Tom Cruise slam was one of the best moments. That and Turk’s reaction to Carla’s PPD talk with Jordan and Jordan’s shushing Turk.
Actually, this was the first episode all season that didn’t end as a complete and utter downer (with either a baby, pregnancy, or departure). At least this one had some hope in it.
And since few straight men love musicals more than I do, I cannot wait for next week! I have a feeling Donald Faison will be the standout in the musical episode, since we already know Turk can sing and dance.
For me, the selling point was not just Carla and Jordan’s admitting to having these horrible feelings, but the cut-edits to Turk’s horrified looks overhearing them.
No, no wait: the selling point was Jordan’s coming into the hospital to the joyful strands of Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely?”
No, wait, no, wait: it was the janitor dancing to Astrud Gilberto’s song.
For those of you wondering about the Tom Cruise slam, it was something like…“don’t take maternity advice from some celebrity and the dead science fiction writer he worships.”
I didn’t know they were doing a musical episode. Is it a take-off on something like the Wizard of Oz epidsode or just all singing and dancing for no real reason?
According to the entertainment section in yesterday’s Lexington Herald-Leader:
There’s a patient (guest star Stephanie D’Abruzzo of the musical Avenue Q) who can only hear things as music, so everyone’s singing. There’s even a song about poop.
