This was before the time of sonograms, so maybe between 30 to 40 years ago, and she went to her doctors appointments are scheduled, but at that time they would take an x ray when you were about 7 months pregnant, and this was the first and usually the last image of your child in utero. Well, usually when someone is pregnant with twins they do not go to full term due to sharing a uterus between two baby bodies, there is simply not enough room. The patient never was able to get her x-ray to discover that she was pregnant with twins because one day right before month 7 of her pregnancy she started getting terrible pains. Before long she was giving birth to a beautiful baby girl. My absolute favorite part of the story is the nurses were cleaning the delivery room, and she looks down and all of a sudden there was another arm sticking out of our patient. With in seconds, she was delivering baby #2. Not only did she deliver two months early, but she gave birth to two babies, and the best/worst part was that her husband was at work the entire time and didn't even know that his wife was giving birth. She likes to add that when the hospital called to inform him of the news, he didn't believe it and was convinced they had the wrong person. He finally believed it, and went to the hospital to his now family of 4.
Soon, doctors discovered that radiography was actually causing incredibly harmful birth defects, and often time miscarriages, and the use of this method was discontinued as the way of 'photographing' the baby. Again, this topic was mentioned in documentary The Business of Being Born, which I am a huge proponent of. While we are on the subjects of documentaries, I would also highly recommend Catfish. Such a great time!
My parents have recently taken interest in horse racing, and are now shared owners of a female mare name I Want Out. (That's her------>)She is great fun to watch, but it definitely peaked my interest in horse racing, especially since it was something that I was not educated about before. One interesting fact that I was told by yet another patient, this post is specializing in the knowledge patients have schooled me with, horse racing seems to be a dying sport. The reason for this is people, with advances in technology and probably the increase prevalence of ADHD in our society, like the instant gratification of betting which leads to a win or loss rather quickly. With horse betting the actual race does happen rather quickly, but the time between each race is about a half hour which is too long for people to wait to start the process all over again. Race tracks started loosing money, so to mend this problem, they started installing slot machines so in between races the 'bettor' could still satisfy their need to gamble. I just thought this was a little interesting tid bit, and I hope you also enjoyed.
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