Mormon Mentality - Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People

By annegb

Apr. 22nd, 2012 at 11:34 am

We are pleased to announce that Sunshine is joining Mormon Mentality! We welcome her insight and chutzpah and know you’ll enjoy her posts.

Sunshine is a happily married mother of four children, ages 2 through almost-12, who also works as a midwife. She enjoys the wondrous process of helping to bring life into the world and has had all her children at home, so she is able to relate to those young mothers who want a natural home birth. A lifelong Mormon, she has an avid curiousity and an open mind that allows for life’s circumstances that don’t fit into the cookie cutter mold.

Sunshine has worked her butt off in the Young Womens program and is now working in the nursery of her ward. She’s looking forward to adding Mormon Mentality to her to-do list. Whenever I see her posts or comments, I think “Good Morning, Merry Sunshine!” She’d probably think that was hokey, but it makes me feel good.

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1. living in zion

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 @ 11:43am

Home birthing rocks! I wish I coulda done it, but it didn’t exist in my world when I was having kids.

Welcome Sunshine to the club. “Scatter Sunshine Everywhere You Go” is what I hum when I see your name.

2. annegb

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 @ 11:54am

She’s probably gagging as she reads this :).

I think home birthing sucks. I think birthing at the Hilton 600 count sheets and with IV drugs and an epidural and a masseuse AND a doola AND every expert in the book rocks. Then being waited on hand and foot for the next year rocks.

3. newlyhousewife

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 @ 2:03pm

I’m still bitter about my own birth experience. Though it does drive me crazy seeing women get self righteous just because they were lucky enough to do a natural labor without any training.

If you’ve never seen a woman in labor before going into labor yourself you are not brilliant, you’re lucky.

4. living in zion

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 @ 8:16pm

I amend my comments on birth in #1. I wanna do the way Annegb says. She knows what she’s talking about. I like the Hilton mattresses and big screen tv’s.

5. marta

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 @ 8:25pm

i like the waited on hand and foot for the next year part.

6. Sunshine

Sun, Apr 22, 2012 @ 9:11pm

Thanks annegb, for the introduction. I wasn’t gagging, and to be waited on hand and foot would be lovely… especially for a year. I hate laundry.
Newly, hum, I’m sorry your birth experience was so rough.

7. Stephen M (Ethesis)

Mon, Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:27am

Congratulations! That is great news.

8. annegb

Mon, Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:44pm

I’m bitter about my birthing experiences, too, NH. Bill said I was a boob during my last labor (I was making a sound sort of like a freight train there in those last few desperate minutes.) My doctor came in and just stared at me then said “I thought you took those natural childbirth classes.”

So when Bill had his kidney stone and when he hemorrhaged after his vasectomy and his colonoscopy, I did enjoy it a tiny bit. Every man in the whole world should have a kidney stone. (well, before I realized Bill was really having some unusual symptoms–after the vasectomy—I said “oh honey, suck it up. Try breathing.”) Then I got more hysterical than he ever could be.

I had a lot of help after that last one, but nothing–NOTHING–with the first two and I was really stupid then. It’s amazing any baby survives.

I’m all about the drugs.