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"Water Breakgate" - Factual Update - Getting Weirder
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http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/3395/sarah-palins-questionable-judgment"One bit of weirdness associated with Palin concerns the birth of her youngest child. As the Alaskan media reported, Palin was attending an energy conference in Texas on April 18 when her water broke four weeks before her due date. After this happened, Palin didn't head to a hospital or even leave the conference, even though the premature rupture of fetal membrances is normally a cause for an immediate examination by an obstetrician, who will observe the fetus on a monitor to guard against infection and other life-threatening complications. Two other reasons for heightened concern were Palin's age, 43, and the fact that prenatal testing indicated the child had Down syndrome.
Palin stayed at the conference and delivered a 30-minute speech, then boarded a 12-hour Alaska Airlines flight from Dallas to Anchorage, neglecting to tell the airline her water had broken -- most airlines won't fly a woman in labor. The motivation for all of this appears to be the Palins' desire that the child be born in Alaska. Her husband Todd told the Anchorage Daily News, "You can't have a fish picker from Texas."
When she arrived home, Palin was hospitalized immediately and the baby was born prematurely after labor was induced in the middle of the night.
Maybe Palin's actions can be written off as Alaskan grit, since
she's a macho hunting governor who jogs in freezing temperatures and
dines on moose burgers. But as a parent myself, I think the Palins were
extremely fortunate that their reckless stupidity did not end in
tragedy. As middle-aged parents who already had four kids, the Palins
had to be completely familiar with all the things that can go wrong in
a pregnancy...."
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One other strange oddity... Most pregnant women are advised to avoid eating shellfish, and curtail eating seafood.
Palin did not announce her pregnancy until she was SEVEN MONTHS pregnant, and after dropping that little bombshell on her staff, who had no idea whatsoever, she and husband Todd attended a banquet where she was seen dining on ....yum.... delicious CRAB.
Er, shellfish includes things like shrimp, lobster, crab, mussels, abalone, conch...
The interesting thing is that most women tend to get more of a baby bump with their subsequent children -- and show earlier. She must have abs of steel or a great girdlemaker....
Most women have much faster labors with their subsequent children. And most women would heed their doctors advice to avoid flying in the last trimester, seek medical attention if they have any unsual symptoms (spotting) or when their water breaks. It's not because they may be going into active labor, but because the loss of the amniotic fluids means the loss of an antiseptic environment for the unborn child.
August 30, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
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