You can’t blame them, it’s their own experience showing. They can’t gin up credible tears for dead children without onions, so they assume no one else can.
Uh, wouldn’t a knife be used for that? I doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out where in the house to find a knife.
Sounds like a classic GOP scenario - the little woman does all the running around so the man gets to be the hero of her story.
Possibly that Obama loves onions and has bad breath --MUSLIM breath!
If she has her placenta in her hand, she no longer needs a clamp for the cord. She could just drop it in the trash. But yeah, she’d be making a bigger mess by walking around with an unclamped cord. She should just hold it shut and expel the placenta. And if she did it right, most of the blood would flow to the baby before cutting the cord.
Or men are clueless and women have to help them with everything. That’s the been-married-a-long-time scenario.
I think “clip the placenta off” means something to close an already cut cord to prevent blood from escaping.
If it wasn’t cut yet, that means either the placenta was already out of the mom and attached to the baby, or Ben was walking behind her holding the baby while it was still attached to the cord whose other end was still inside mom. The latter is less likely, but funnier to imagine.
I’ll bet John Boehner cried when he read those comments.
They meant clamp off, not cut off. But that’s the least of the problems with the story.
Real good, amirite?
Women bleed for 40 days after having a kid. Hold it shut? What the hell are you talking about?
Read The Mote in God’s Eye, have you?
A woman MIGHT bleed A LITTLE after childbirth, but usually not enough to drip on the floor. If she’s bleeding that much for that long, something is wrong.
Most of the blood in childbirth comes from the placenta after the cord is cut. Once it is gone or the placenta is expelled, there’s very little blood involved.
After the cord is cut, they usually clamp it shut to keep the blood to a minimum. If she were searching for something to clamp it, she’d need to hold it shut.
No but obviously I need to.
Nope. I bled like a pig for two weeks. The blood came from me. As did most of the women in the ward. The hospital supplied gigantic pads that made me laugh. We all still walked around for the 3 days we were there, holding our groins and dripping blood on the floor. But I’m sure your experience was different when you had your baby.
Well, if you’re Ben Carson, you probably believe (Leviticus 12) that women are unclean for a week after delivering a son, and it takes 40 days before they are fully purified.
And of course, if it’s a daughter, the times are doubled. Icky girls.
Is there any truth at all to his statement that’s the head of the state court system: “Moore said he issued the order today in his role as administrative head of the state court system.”? I was under the impression that the state courts, much like the federal courts, are separated, and each court operates in isolation as far as administrative stuff is concerned. Chief Justice Roberts couldn’t just, for example, order the 9th circuit to do something because he’s their boss.
I ask because first, Moore is a fucking shitcunt, but I wonder about the job security of the lower level court judges and officials if they simply ignore him. Could they just go “Oh, that asshole Moore saying shit about the gays again, here’s your marriage certificate anyways Mr. X, I now pronounce you and Mr. Z married”
Did you have an epidural? I presume you didn’t have a c-section.
My wife left the hospital two days after. She bled, but not that much. I admit that it’s been a while though.
But we’re off track a little.
Yes, it’s true. State courts, at least in most states, are run from the top down. Remember, except for SCOTUS all federal courts are created by Congress. State lower courts are generally direct constititutional mandates. Also, Roberts can tell the 9th Circuit what to do, in many respects: SCOTUS adopts the federal rules of procedure, though Congress can veto them.
In most states marriage licenses are issued by county clerks, who are not judicial officers, but Alabama’s are issued by probate judges, who are. So he is very much within his authority under Alabama law (though not federal law).