Monasticism and Quantum Physics

[bushwalker]

You worry so much about the birth event that it is easy to forget what things are like afterwards. Life is akin to a monastic existence in so many ways

Comments

[hatter_anon]

Thoughts are with you Bushwalker. Through all the adjustment etc. you still write beautifully!

[bushwalker]

Thanks. Are you still in China? What will your next destination be?

[hatter_anon]

Next stop Denmark. Did I tell you my trip makes no logical sense, other than couch availability? :)

I've four days left, must get off the computer and out there ...

[bushwalker]

Woohoo! Keep posting those pics. I've never been to Denmark and would love to get a glance of life over there.

[coathangerwings]

i second hatter_anon. if it was me, i'd still be out of it to even write anything coherently.

take care, bushwalker. and congratulations again on the arrival of a beautiful baby girl. :)

[bushwalker]

Well the whole experience does make you think!

Thank you. We both are doing quite well.

[nausicaa1]

I really think that the old testament folks were on to something when they insisted that a new mother be isolated as unclean for a whole month after giving birth to a boy and two months after giving birth to a girl. You're supposed to be out of the loop and let those around you pick up the slack while you hang out and get to know that baby. The elder brothers won't suffer from lack of routine--sounds like they're having a ball while you're indisposed, really

[bushwalker]

I do agree that women need at least a month to recover; as a bare minimum. It has taken that long before I've felt myself again and I really didn't have a hard labour in the broader scheme of things. It is certainly beneficial for a newborn to have that focused time as well. I can't say I feel good about the unclean bit. I think that says more about the men and their fear of menses/lochia more than anything

[flemmarde]

i think you should write a book about pregnancy and motherhood... you could co-author it with nausicaa1 actually... a much more existential book than so much of the stuff that's available.

anyone with mutliple littlies has my respect and awe :)

[bushwalker]

It would be fun to write a book with Nausicaa. :o)

[flemmarde]

heh heh... perhaps we could come up with an angle for it then... makin' babies on either side of the pacific...

[klclutte]

Belated congratulations on your beautiful baby girl.

You write so well even in the twilight existance after giving birth.

I heard that in some culture (for the life of me can't remember who does it, sadly, it's not a Canadian tradition) a woman who has just given birth is cared for by her relatives for at least a month afterward. It is much nicer to consider it pampering and assisting mum & baby to bond rather than having a new mother sequestered due to her uncleanliness.

[bushwalker]

Thank you. Thank you. Actually it is Arabic culture that deems necessary a period of forty days bed rest after the birth for mother and baby. If only it was Australian culture.