Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I've becomed convinced over the past few years by good argument that cannabis should be legalised.
All the same, I'd like it to not be around me, or around my kids. I think there's sufficient evidence that developing brains are affected by cannabis. So I'd vote in favour of it being served in cannabis R18 or similar cafes, rather than legalised for general private use.
I'm also a fanatical anti-smoker, and would like to see cigarettes banned, but that's just pie-in-the sky type stuff.
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Kyle that could be taken ,well,let's say, a little creepy
Umm yeah. Well for clarity's sake, my oldest is a boy.
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But I also didn't get Portishead until Portishead 3 as I had unwisely considered them to be hairstylists music. The same for Radiohead.
If you got their self-titled album first, rather than Dummy, then you can be excused. It was average. And 3 and Dummy are quite different. A couple of years ago some enlightened friends of mine were discussing that Dummy was possibly the best music to make love to.
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Or all those things at once. Spare no expense, that's what I say.
I thought it was a hot curry, hot bath, hot sex.
Two out of three bought on labour with my oldest. Sadly labour took most of two days, so perhaps we got it started too early.
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I remember sitting with a group of fellow new Dads, they were all talking about cutting the cord and how wonderful it was. I felt hugely guilty for finding the cord cutting hugely anti-climactic.
I made a bit of a hash of it when I did it. A couple of hacks and it was all uneven. The nurse had a good look at it and clucked a little before letting me pick her up to take her back to her mother. Luckily I didn't end up deforming the kid, that bit shrivelled off anyway.
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"sub antarctic island holiday" - well come one down to Dunedin - that just about describes our 'summer' so far
No I can see the sun.... oh nevermind. It went away again.
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Can't believe how many times we were told that Justine couldn't eat soft cheeses, when in fact she could since we pasteurise milk used in cheese production in this country.
Dammit. You with your logic and your cheesey knowledge!
Not too long ago it was noticed that more babies were being born on Friday than any other day of the week in developed countries.
In Dunedin I believe it's Thursdays. Why they're not spread out over the week, I'm not sure, I guess the medical staff do other sorts of operations Monday to Wednesday?
Tell me why it means so much.
I had no miracle of birth with either of my children, though the second was a c-section, which just felt "weird". The first was eventually ventouse-d out (feeling for you right now Ben) under epidural after over 30 hours at home and then another 8 or so at the hospital. Mum had to be told by the midwife when she was having her contraction so she could push.
Miracle of natural birth? Whazzat?
Sorry for the thread-jack, but if anyone wants to pop their sprog without benefit of modern chemistry, I could make up a mix tape of the Media Martyrdom of Cameron Slater.
I haven't been following it closely, but it seems pretty well mixed up already. What a dork.
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So it's probably a massive media exaggeration. Oh, what's this? Yeah, it's my surprised face.
I raised it, and while I wouldn't know where to look for the original article, I remember taking notice of it because it was medical professionals raising the concerns, not media. Anyway, good to see some data suggesting that it's not such a reality.
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"Too posh to push" has been in the news as a concept since at least 2000, and I think it finally has some data behind it rather than anecdotes and splashy headlines: here and here.
Thanks for that, interesting.
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On the subject of elective caesarians (another judgy one), one of the things that gets people going is the word "elective". It doesn't mean what many people think it means: too posh to push. It means that a caesarian is decided upon before the birth, generally for medical reasons like the baby's in breach position, as opposed to done in an emergency setting.
I remember reading somewhere, several years ago (and I can't remember if it was NZ or international), a bunch of doctors, or maybe a medical society raising concerns about the increased numbers of elective c-sections which were done by choice - for cosmetic or fear of natural birth or other reasons - rather than medical reasons. Their concern was that a c-section was a relatively decent bit of surgery and surgery should be avoided where possible in childbirth.
Which seemed fair and reasonable to me - these are issues that informed doctors and midwives should be raising both amongst themselves and with prospective mothers as part of providing good medical care.