"Yowie" wrote in message
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"Stacey" wrote in message
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Yowie!!!!!!!

I just read in Catslaves some interesting new news about an
impending
delivery of a new type of kitten??????!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

Thanks everyone. Yes, it is true, I am currently carrying around a
teensy
eensy weensy barekitten. Calculations say I'll be carrying it until
around
April 12 next year, assuming it stays where it is and I don't lose it.

I went for my first blood sucking session today - she took 5 vials!

And obstetricians are impossible to get in my town despite having the
best
level of medical insurance, because the insurance industry has made it
all
but impossible for obstetricians to carry out their practice with
liability
insurance. The earliest I can get to see one is the 24th of September
and
thats only because somebody cancelled just before I rang today. And
thats
still no guarantee I'll actually see the guy on the day I made the
appointment. I may be able to have labour in a private hospital, but
the
odds are good it will be a midwife rather than the obstetrician
attending
the birth.

Well, on thebright side, women have been giving birth quite
successfully
without ever needing hospitals or obstetricians, we can only hope its
a
remarkably boring pregnancy.

Yowie (terrified & excited all at the same time)

I can understand that last remark. This is the first I learned of it,
and your post took me on an emotional roller coaster. I'm thrilled for
the two of you, and horrified that you have to wait so long to see an
obstetrician. Physicians here are also having a bad time because of
malpractice insurance. I have heard that a lot of women actually prefer
a midwife for delivery, and as long as everything goes the way it should
(and it usually does), that should be fine. Still, I can understand
that it is scary not to be able to count on full medical support in case
of need.

I would hope that they're going to do a lot of testing with all that
blood, and that if any problem were discovered, they would make sure you
saw a doctor sooner. Anyway, I hope the whole pregnancy, and the labor,
are routine.

A couple on one of my other newsgroups just became grandparents for the
first time. They were rather concerned, because their daughter-in-law
was 40. Everything went fine, and she was only in labor for 3 hours. I
wish the same sort of luck for you.

Congratulations and all best wishes!

Joy