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Re: The Romper Room (All AFF Expectant Parents kee
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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
Raul Jr was a c section 33 years ago...water to the hospital was piped in from the local river!
The doctor thought I would die because mother brought me ice...back then they thought ice was deadly for just about anyone in a hospital! He did nnot seem to worry about the dirty water.
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I am SO glad things have changed! My mother told me that when my oldest sister was born in St. Louis in 1953, she was strapped (yes, strapped down) flat to a metal gurney in a hallway full of other women in labor.
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To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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