I was obsessively interested in the royal birth. When I woke up and saw that Kate was in
labor, I went berserk and didn’t turn off the television the entire day. Now
here’s the “individual craziness” part.
I didn't care about the sex of the baby or even seeing the baby. I wanted labor minutiae : the first pangs, what Kate was doing, did the water break at
home, how far apart were the contractions when she said, “Let’s go Wills. It’s coming.”

The language of labor is all Middle Ages and Merlinish,
measurements are in centimeters. Without
any calipers in sight any passerby seems to know to the nth how far the
drawbridge has opened. The
cleaning lady comes in and takes a look.
“Only three centimeters, dearie.
You’ve got a ways.” Think about what nature is asking you to do. Who in their right mind would think it
was possible to get an eight and a half pound baby out of a slim woman’s body
without damaging the heck out of her.
That’s when they created the word “asunder.” And then there’s the placenta - you grow a complicated
Rube Goldberg looking thing as well as a complete perfect baby.
Now let’s get to Kate.
I can’t imagine Kate in the throes of labor. How would she manage? Kate
went to the hospital around six a.m so she must have been up earlier and
realized what was happening before she woke William. She got dressed and
gathered her things to take with her.
Maybe she called her mother.
Both Kate and William speak in those clipped and rushed upper-class
almost unintelligible accents so it’s hard to “hear” any coherent dialogue.
I worried that Kate would not deliver without complications. Let’s not forget that the queen's gynecologist plus two others were in the room. She might as well have had the Bishop of Canterbury delivering the baby. How could anything natural happen in
that room? How could she abandon
herself to all the screams and wtf’s ? When they said on the news “she delivered vaginally,” I
almost fell with relief. I was surprised they even know that word in England.
I like Kate.
She worked hard to get William.
As it turns out with that wacky family (except for the Queen who is darn
near perfect) they should be thrilled to have her because she definitely knows
what she is doing. With Kate, very
little happens by chance.
Now that she
has crossed over to the side of women who have had a child, Kate will
change. Her perspective will
change. LOOK at what happened to
Snookie who has become exemplary and full of self control after giving birth to
Lorenzo. Snookie said, “I’m different now.” It’s not that she
cleaned up her act. She has an
entirely new act. She went in a
whole different direction. Women
change when they’ve had a child.
And I’m not talking about ppd.
I’m talking about a certain almost grim confidence. They’ve been to a strange place and
things will never be the same again.
P.S. For my devotion, I was treated late last night to a biopic of Kate. She was bullied as a child and attended boarding school. Wow, Kate. Think of what those bullies are saying now!
P.S. For my devotion, I was treated late last night to a biopic of Kate. She was bullied as a child and attended boarding school. Wow, Kate. Think of what those bullies are saying now!
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