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Kel · Coach

RE: Britney had her baby!

janey831 · Kate Spade

Kel wrote:

Also in the US weekly they were on the set with her for the ELLE cover I believe it was and Britney kept saying how she was craving coffee and caffine and was drinking it all the time. Isn't that bad for the baby?

um.....i think so....lol

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

Yes, yes it is...it ups the fetal heartbeat to dangerous levels and inhibits fetal growth. There's a reason you don't see kids guzzling starbucks!

This gets me all riled up...I'm a caffeine addict but I quit cold turkey the day I knew I was pregnant and didn't start again till after I stopped nursing.

tara t · Marc Jacobs

halleybird wrote:

Word is that the afterbirth contained Funyons, a case of Marlboro Lights and a can of Red Bull.

hahahaha too funny halleybird

laken1 · Hermes

This really pisses me off. I mean really pisses me off. :hot:

Cricket · Gucci

LMonet wrote:

According to the news this A.M. poor Brit doesn't like pain so she scheduled her c-section early to lessen the chance that she would go into labor naturally and have to experience contractions. Um, riiiiiight. This bothers me alot for some reason.

Well, I had two scheduled C-sections with my girls. The stubborn little boogers were both breach, and I was scared to turn my oldest around in the womb (couild be dangerous). I really had no choice w/ my youngest. The hospital I had her in wouldn't do a vaginal birth after cesarian (VBAC). And personally, I thought it was easy. Some girls have a hard time w/ it, but I didn't. You take a lot longer to recover, but boy at that time, I felt NO PAIN! I was a little scared of vaginal birth, so I was secretly relieved (ssh, don't tell). She probably talked to someone who had an easy time w/ it. A lot of hospitals jump at the chance to do them now because there is so much less risk for complication (the malpractice suit type of complication

).

blink · Coach

janey831 wrote:

Kel wrote: Also in the US weekly they were on the set with her for the ELLE cover I believe it was and Britney kept saying how she was craving coffee and caffine and was drinking it all the time. Isn't that bad for the baby? um.....i think so....lol

it's really not a big deal to have one cup a day while you are pregnant. i tried, especially in the tender first trimester and tried to replace coffee with decaffeinated green tea....but there were days I couldn't resist caffeine. By the time I was second trimester, I read up a little bit more on it and realized that one cup wasn't any danger, any studies showing harm were reflecting the results of heavy coffee drinking, 3 or more cups I believe.

-- Edited by lorelei at 11:34, 2005-09-16

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

Fug girls had a field day...

Q. Dear Aunt Fugly,

Y'all! I'm a MOM! But listen up, though, because now I have a serious dilemmon. (I just learned that word! This is my first time using it. I hope I did okay! I just read in some book that if you use big words around the house your kids will stay off the crack, or something so I am practicing now so I am good at it by the time the baby is old enough to hear and stuff.)

Okay, so, here's the deal. I just gave birth (it was soooo sweet and loving, y'all -- my husband couldn't even be there because he was so afraid of fainting from love! Isn't he sweet?) and so now my lawyers told me I have to lose 60 lbs in two weeks, but... I looooooooooooooove my maternity clothes! Y'all, do you even KNOW how much they hide? As a test I taped three bags of Ruffles to my bra and walked around the house for an hour and nobody noticed. Although my husband was kind of preoctopied (whee! That was a good one. I totally would have passed those FATs or STAs or whatever that test with all the bubble-thingies was called. I am so lucky I didn’t ever graduate high school) by some papers he was trying to understand. He kept growling and saying something about a "loophole," but I don't understand why, because he doesn't even wear belts!

The trick is, nobody has made it fashionable to wear maternity shirts and pants even when you're not earning interest on his deposit. (Hee! That's what my husband calls it. I don't know why he keeps talking about money all the time but maybe he is looking into becoming a financial analyst or something like that because he told me to fire mine because he wanted to cook the books himself. AND he wanted to name the baby Dead President, but I told him that wouldn't work, ever, because what if he was president? Would he be President Dead President? That's so confusing! And so then he suggested Shut It as a name, I think, but I said a two-letter middle name is bad sheng fui or whatever, so he said, "How about calling it, 'Moooooooo,'" and then I cried a little and told him he was so mean that devil would dry up his swimmers and he'd never have another little baby and he was all, "Good, it's about goddamn time," and so I ran away and sat in the corner and meditated and talked to the red string, and it told me to name my son "Preston," because it's kind of a combination of "Priest" and "Justin," which means he'll be the perfectest little baby ever because he'll be all righteous and pious and stuff, but he'll also love dancing and singing just as much as he loves the Lord. … Hmm, unless the red string said "Presley" and not "Priest"… in which case he would probably love drugs, so I'd better start using more big words in my vocabilory because if my baby ends up addicted to crack or whatever I will be very sad because I don't even think they have a wing at Promises for babies. But maybe he would just love sandwiches, which is okay because everyone loves sandwiches!)

Where was I? Oh yeah -- Gwen Stefani needs to start wearing maternity clothes every day, so that I can too, don't you think. Can you give me that? I can't register for it even though I tried. The lady at the Wal-Mart just laughed at me which I think was really sort of rude. Also, it's hard to breast feed with Doritos taped to your chest. Have you tried? I asked my Mama to come help me but she said she was busy and then I saw that she was cutting up all my credit cards -- I think so that she and Kevin and me and Jamie Lynn can all have a piece to use. That was really injeanis of her, don't you think? I love her even if she did say she was going to take me and the baby and fly us far far away so that Kevin could never find us. I am pretty sure she just meant for a vacation.

Thanks for the advice, Auntie! I love you!

theotherjess · Chanel

sephorablue wrote:

Fug girls had a field day... Q. Dear Aunt Fugly, Y'all! I'm a MOM! But listen up, though, because now I have a serious dilemmon. (I just learned that word! This is my first time using it. I hope I did okay! I just read in some book that if you use big words around the house your kids will stay off the crack, or something so I am practicing now so I am good at it by the time the baby is old enough to hear and stuff.) Okay, so, here's the deal. I just gave birth (it was soooo sweet and loving, y'all -- my husband couldn't even be there because he was so afraid of fainting from love! Isn't he sweet?) and so now my lawyers told me I have to lose 60 lbs in two weeks, but... I looooooooooooooove my maternity clothes! Y'all, do you even KNOW how much they hide? As a test I taped three bags of Ruffles to my bra and walked around the house for an hour and nobody noticed. Although my husband was kind of preoctopied (whee! That was a good one. I totally would have passed those FATs or STAs or whatever that test with all the bubble-thingies was called. I am so lucky I didn’t ever graduate high school) by some papers he was trying to understand. He kept growling and saying something about a "loophole," but I don't understand why, because he doesn't even wear belts! The trick is, nobody has made it fashionable to wear maternity shirts and pants even when you're not earning interest on his deposit. (Hee! That's what my husband calls it. I don't know why he keeps talking about money all the time but maybe he is looking into becoming a financial analyst or something like that because he told me to fire mine because he wanted to cook the books himself. AND he wanted to name the baby Dead President, but I told him that wouldn't work, ever, because what if he was president? Would he be President Dead President? That's so confusing! And so then he suggested Shut It as a name, I think, but I said a two-letter middle name is bad sheng fui or whatever, so he said, "How about calling it, 'Moooooooo,'" and then I cried a little and told him he was so mean that devil would dry up his swimmers and he'd never have another little baby and he was all, "Good, it's about goddamn time," and so I ran away and sat in the corner and meditated and talked to the red string, and it told me to name my son "Preston," because it's kind of a combination of "Priest" and "Justin," which means he'll be the perfectest little baby ever because he'll be all righteous and pious and stuff, but he'll also love dancing and singing just as much as he loves the Lord. … Hmm, unless the red string said "Presley" and not "Priest"… in which case he would probably love drugs, so I'd better start using more big words in my vocabilory because if my baby ends up addicted to crack or whatever I will be very sad because I don't even think they have a wing at Promises for babies. But maybe he would just love sandwiches, which is okay because everyone loves sandwiches!) Where was I? Oh yeah -- Gwen Stefani needs to start wearing maternity clothes every day, so that I can too, don't you think. Can you give me that? I can't register for it even though I tried. The lady at the Wal-Mart just laughed at me which I think was really sort of rude. Also, it's hard to breast feed with Doritos taped to your chest. Have you tried? I asked my Mama to come help me but she said she was busy and then I saw that she was cutting up all my credit cards -- I think so that she and Kevin and me and Jamie Lynn can all have a piece to use. That was really injeanis of her, don't you think? I love her even if she did say she was going to take me and the baby and fly us far far away so that Kevin could never find us. I am pretty sure she just meant for a vacation. Thanks for the advice, Auntie! I love you!

I love the Fug girls! This was hilarious and I could totally picture Brit saying all that.

mel · Nine West

I had a scheduled c-section when my daughter was born (she's now 16 months old). She was breech (head up instead of down) so I didn't have a choice... While I didn't experience labor/contractions and didn't feel anything during the procedure, I was in A LOT of pain when I had to get out of bed for the first time the next day and still experienced a lot of soreness around my incision for weeks afterward. Britney was kidding herself if she thought that a scheduled c-section would be free of pain. Anyway...from what I've heard from my friends who have more than one baby and have experienced both a c-section and natural childbirth, the recovery process from natural childbirth vs. a c-section is much much faster.

-- Edited by mel at 08:51, 2005-09-19

-- Edited by mel at 08:52, 2005-09-19

bumblebee · Coach

i read somewhere this morning that she actually named the baby sean preston. SPF is a much better monogram than PMS.

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

bumblebee wrote:

i read somewhere this morning that she actually named the baby sean preston. SPF is a much better monogram than PMS.

I read the same thing on Radar via Defamer. Here's the link, if anyone is interested.

http://www.radarmagazine.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/09/21/index.php#report_003134

laken1 · Hermes

sephorablue, that was hysterical. Thanks for the laugh - i needed it today!