Comments on: Beautiful Needle, Blessed Haystack

By: Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pumps

Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pumps — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:44:00 +0000

Nice to hear this story it seems you enjoyed a lot with the broke breast pumps. Troubleshooting the things make a good seance.
Thank you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Dullaghan Darlings...

i know you are all busy watching Veda extrude stuff, but darlings! Don't you know her adoring public needs further photographic evidence?! More photos for the great unwashed!! Don't make me start a petition!

xoxoxoxo Wee

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:47:00 +0000

I think you are already, and promise to be an incredible father and husband. What a lucky, lucky wife and baby!!

Such love you have for your family. It jumps off the page. Truly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:05:00 +0000

All this will seem amusing after some time has passed. I myself vividly remember having refused to leave the hospital after giving birth before my husband located a breast pump rental shop (very good idea to rent btw) that offered troubleshooting service over weekends.

By: Magnoliawhispers

Magnoliawhispers — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:39:00 +0000

funny and amazing but wonderful that you 2 are such a great team

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:42:00 +0000

You know, something like that would just happen right after your on-call help leaves!!! Sorry you guys had such a rough rest of the weekend. I wish we had still been there to help if we could have, although it sounds as if there wasn’t much we could have done. I personally think you should give yourself infinite credit for having the first clue about how to fix the pump. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of dads, or moms for that matter, who would have had an inkling.

Your story reminded me of something that happened to me last week…very “needle-in-a-haystack-ish,” if you will. A co-worker was scanning the floor in a manic, frantic fashion as I brought up my last client of the day and the office was closing. I was soon informed that she had lost the diamond from her wedding ring – the center stone. Understanding her plight only sympathetically, I began to help her search. And then I realized, if the *whole* diamond fell off, including the head (prongwork and everything, for those of you who have never worked at a jewelry store or don’t know), then she had to have knocked it off forcefully. So, I suggested she check the cart she uses to transport her charts from the medical records room to her office, assuming she had knocked it when she was retrieving a chart or putting one back in to the cart. She haphazardly dumped the empty plastic crate-like object-on-wheels and shook it vigorously. And then, out of my peripheral vision I saw the glimmer of her diamond. There it was, sitting on the floor of the medical records room, gleaming in its glory. She hugged me and thanked me repeatedly, and I got the most rewarding feeling from her gratitude. She had been looking for it for over an hour. Her husband e-mailed me the next day to thank me, which helped to string out the pride a little. One little good deed went such a long way…and I hadn’t told anyone about it until now. Finding needles in haystacks is truly magical, I think.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:13:00 +0000

True indeed! I conveniently left out the fact that societal convenience was both the solution to and cause of the problem. We’d have been better versed in the art of hand-expressing milk in the first place if we’d lived in a remote village somewhere (or, I suppose, a Radiohead concert, where a friend of ours resorted to just this feat after the birth of her son.) And yes, for millennia mothers have found ways of solving these problems without AC Adapters, sleep-sound generators, battery-powered swings or Boppies or any of the other “necessities” of modern parenthood. I guess they were just a lot tougher than Lope and me!…

(Oh, and they do borrow moms and babies in rural villages, according to the articles I just found. Occasionally they even have Salma Hayek show up to save the day!)

By: coloredsock

coloredsock — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:13:00 +0000

hmmm, this is good. it’s making me think about what the hell we’d do at 3:50 am living out in the middle of nowhere, an hour from a walmart that has hours of 7am-10pm. also makes me think of women and babies and dads in rural villages who’ve never heard of pumps…maybe they just borrow babies to drink and borrow moms to feed. hmmm…

and you’re right. it’s the most amazing miracle in the world. (as we’ll know even more in a few weeks) the how, the why, the chances of connecting…wow…