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I was so shocked when that elderly lady said that to me that it took a second for it to sink in. But after a slight delayed reaction I said something like, "Of course I know what birth control is, how do you think I got my kids 2 years apart?! I really wish I could have thought of something better. I should have told her that I was planning on 8 or something!



Wendy, how do you like Kirksville? I flew out there for my husband's interview and I had a great time there. It is really family oriented and I thought very quaint. I could see why people ask you about having children though. It definitely has that small town atmosphere where everyone seems to know everything about everybody. Do you hang out at the Wal-Mart superstore? That's probably where I would be if I was there! I liked Kirksville though I almost got carsick driving from Kansas City. Up and down all those rolling hills all the way there! We decided to stay in the West instead but that was a fun trip.



Robin



Robin

I was so shocked when that elderly lady said that to me that it took a second for it to sink in. But after a slight delayed reaction I said something like, "Of course I know what birth control is, how do you think I got my kids 2 years apart?! I really wish I could have thought of something better. I should have told her that I was planning on 8 or something!



Wendy, how do you like Kirksville? I flew out there for my husband's interview and I had a great time there. It is really family oriented and I thought very quaint. I could see why people ask you about having children though. It definitely has that small town atmosphere where everyone seems to know everything about everybody. Do you hang out at the Wal-Mart superstore? That's probably where I would be if I was there! I liked Kirksville though I almost got carsick driving from Kansas City. Up and down all those rolling hills all the way there! We decided to stay in the West instead but that was a fun trip.



Robin



Robin

I was so shocked when that elderly lady said that to me that it took a second for it to sink in. But after a slight delayed reaction I said something like, "Of course I know what birth control is, how do you think I got my kids 2 years apart?! I really wish I could have thought of something better. I should have told her that I was planning on 8 or something!



Wendy, how do you like Kirksville? I flew out there for my husband's interview and I had a great time there. It is really family oriented and I thought very quaint. I could see why people ask you about having children though. It definitely has that small town atmosphere where everyone seems to know everything about everybody. Do you hang out at the Wal-Mart superstore? That's probably where I would be if I was there! I liked Kirksville though I almost got carsick driving from Kansas City. Up and down all those rolling hills all the way there! We decided to stay in the West instead but that was a fun trip.



Robin



Robin

[Phoebe]

Kris- Thanks for the reassuring thoughts. I think my subconcious is more worried about me being a mom and all the responsibilities that accompany it. I keep having dreams of being overwhelmed and not being able to keep up with the status quo.



This weekend, I had a dream that I joined Ron's fellowship (Somehow, I miraclously completed pre-med courses, med school and residency to join the neonatology team) and started working as a fellow. The first week I took my baby to work with me and worked 75 hours. Everytime my baby went to sleep I went to meetings and did my job, I would come back to find someone taking care of the baby and wondering where I was. Then they told me I was supposed to work 120 hours a week and I somehow had to make up the 45 hours I missed from the first week. The other fellows, not Ron, encouraged me to quit the program because I couldn't hack it and I was a terrible mother.



Talk about a nightmare! I am sure I will adjust to motherhood and possibly my job after some practice. However, I won't be pursing medicine! haha. Ron already thinks I couldn't hack it as a physician. Not that I even have that thought.



Jennifer

[Phoebe]

Kris- Thanks for the reassuring thoughts. I think my subconcious is more worried about me being a mom and all the responsibilities that accompany it. I keep having dreams of being overwhelmed and not being able to keep up with the status quo.



This weekend, I had a dream that I joined Ron's fellowship (Somehow, I miraclously completed pre-med courses, med school and residency to join the neonatology team) and started working as a fellow. The first week I took my baby to work with me and worked 75 hours. Everytime my baby went to sleep I went to meetings and did my job, I would come back to find someone taking care of the baby and wondering where I was. Then they told me I was supposed to work 120 hours a week and I somehow had to make up the 45 hours I missed from the first week. The other fellows, not Ron, encouraged me to quit the program because I couldn't hack it and I was a terrible mother.



Talk about a nightmare! I am sure I will adjust to motherhood and possibly my job after some practice. However, I won't be pursing medicine! haha. Ron already thinks I couldn't hack it as a physician. Not that I even have that thought.



Jennifer

[Phoebe]

Kris- Thanks for the reassuring thoughts. I think my subconcious is more worried about me being a mom and all the responsibilities that accompany it. I keep having dreams of being overwhelmed and not being able to keep up with the status quo.



This weekend, I had a dream that I joined Ron's fellowship (Somehow, I miraclously completed pre-med courses, med school and residency to join the neonatology team) and started working as a fellow. The first week I took my baby to work with me and worked 75 hours. Everytime my baby went to sleep I went to meetings and did my job, I would come back to find someone taking care of the baby and wondering where I was. Then they told me I was supposed to work 120 hours a week and I somehow had to make up the 45 hours I missed from the first week. The other fellows, not Ron, encouraged me to quit the program because I couldn't hack it and I was a terrible mother.



Talk about a nightmare! I am sure I will adjust to motherhood and possibly my job after some practice. However, I won't be pursing medicine! haha. Ron already thinks I couldn't hack it as a physician. Not that I even have that thought.



Jennifer

I bet you COULD hack it as a physician



Pregnancy dreams are the weirdest, that's for sure...but you are right, you will adjust and I have the feeling from everything that I have learned about you over the last several months that you will balance it all really well.



Hey...and you're more than half-way there!



Kris

I bet you COULD hack it as a physician



Pregnancy dreams are the weirdest, that's for sure...but you are right, you will adjust and I have the feeling from everything that I have learned about you over the last several months that you will balance it all really well.



Hey...and you're more than half-way there!



Kris

I bet you COULD hack it as a physician



Pregnancy dreams are the weirdest, that's for sure...but you are right, you will adjust and I have the feeling from everything that I have learned about you over the last several months that you will balance it all really well.



Hey...and you're more than half-way there!



Kris

MY ANSWER TO THE WHOLE THING...



E-P-I-D-U-R-A-L



The most amazing drug ever imaginable.

I am the queen of worrying. I could never figure out how I was going to get this "thing" out of me without a ton of pain.

No matter what you are told. It is NEVER too late for an epidural. Even if you are 10 cm dialated and ready to deliver. YOU CALL THE SHOTS ON THIS ONE.



Enough said.

MY ANSWER TO THE WHOLE THING...



E-P-I-D-U-R-A-L



The most amazing drug ever imaginable.

I am the queen of worrying. I could never figure out how I was going to get this "thing" out of me without a ton of pain.

No matter what you are told. It is NEVER too late for an epidural. Even if you are 10 cm dialated and ready to deliver. YOU CALL THE SHOTS ON THIS ONE.



Enough said.

MY ANSWER TO THE WHOLE THING...



E-P-I-D-U-R-A-L



The most amazing drug ever imaginable.

I am the queen of worrying. I could never figure out how I was going to get this "thing" out of me without a ton of pain.

No matter what you are told. It is NEVER too late for an epidural. Even if you are 10 cm dialated and ready to deliver. YOU CALL THE SHOTS ON THIS ONE.



Enough said.

[DCJenn]

I swear Rick and I have the 'baby debate' at least once a week. He really likes kids (which I suppose is a good trait in a pediatrician), I'm getting kinda old to be debating this much longer (35 in Nov) and both sets of parents are waiting. (Apparently on Mother's Day, they toasted my sister-in-law and me as 'future mothers') We would really like to pay off some of this horrible debt from our ill-spent youths though. Ambivilence...



And the other thing is that neither one of us is all that pressed about 'bearing our own'. So then the question is, when do we start that whole process. We would definitely adopt, and we both definitely prefer older kids to infants. (I can't handle the cats waking me up wihtout feeling resentful..) I think we should just go find a whole slew of them and adopt them all.



(in a two bedroom house..haha)



Oh well, if any of you can figure outmy life, please respond.



Jenn

[DCJenn]

I swear Rick and I have the 'baby debate' at least once a week. He really likes kids (which I suppose is a good trait in a pediatrician), I'm getting kinda old to be debating this much longer (35 in Nov) and both sets of parents are waiting. (Apparently on Mother's Day, they toasted my sister-in-law and me as 'future mothers') We would really like to pay off some of this horrible debt from our ill-spent youths though. Ambivilence...



And the other thing is that neither one of us is all that pressed about 'bearing our own'. So then the question is, when do we start that whole process. We would definitely adopt, and we both definitely prefer older kids to infants. (I can't handle the cats waking me up wihtout feeling resentful..) I think we should just go find a whole slew of them and adopt them all.



(in a two bedroom house..haha)



Oh well, if any of you can figure outmy life, please respond.



Jenn

[DCJenn]

I swear Rick and I have the 'baby debate' at least once a week. He really likes kids (which I suppose is a good trait in a pediatrician), I'm getting kinda old to be debating this much longer (35 in Nov) and both sets of parents are waiting. (Apparently on Mother's Day, they toasted my sister-in-law and me as 'future mothers') We would really like to pay off some of this horrible debt from our ill-spent youths though. Ambivilence...



And the other thing is that neither one of us is all that pressed about 'bearing our own'. So then the question is, when do we start that whole process. We would definitely adopt, and we both definitely prefer older kids to infants. (I can't handle the cats waking me up wihtout feeling resentful..) I think we should just go find a whole slew of them and adopt them all.



(in a two bedroom house..haha)



Oh well, if any of you can figure outmy life, please respond.



Jenn