I’ve been wanting to write something about giving birth for quite some time because giving birth is regarded as something very terrible by many women who have not done so (and even by many who have).

Giving birth is not only about pain. For me giving birth was also the most powerful thing I had ever experienced. It makes you feel like a god, like you could take the sun in your hand, throw it and thereby create a new planet. It is the very best feeling I ever had though I do not wish to deny that I have a new definition of „pain“ after labouring. Yet even the pain is like a sacrifice for the new baby. It hurts far more and takes much longer then breaking a bone but it is for a reason.
Anyways, for these who are interested in the insane-pain-screaming-insults part often shown in the media – read this. It is a collection of what Austrian women said to their husbands, doctors and midwives during labour, great fun to read.

C.

Sie hat einen Satz gesagt. Einen Satz! A fragte sie :“C, magst  du mit mir raufgehen“Und C sagte:  “Nein, ich mag bei Mami bleiben“ 

PS: Just five minutes after this entry little C. woke up. So, no thesis for me. Anyway, who cares for thesis: Little C. now has two new brightly shining  white teeth! )

Wollte nur mitteilen, dass Baby nach durchwachter Nacht schläft und ich darum Gelegenheit zur DA habe. Just made some coffee.

Baby at library/catastrophe and me

On Friday I went to the library of the glorious university of Vienna as only there can I log in to RIDA (which is a programm allowing you to find cases on the PC which you simply can’t find on RIS).  I had little C. with me. It was damn hard to do research and while stopping her from grabbing all the books and turning off the PCs and so on.

Then it happened that the system I wanted to work on broke down (due to the fault of the administrators who forgot to put the new RIDA on the student’s PCs), which nearly resulted in me having a nervous breakdown.

The nice lady who works on the 2nd floor of the library offered me her master-PC (where, of course, the programm works) so that I could do the research. Which seemed to be a perfect soultion. Only that little C. grew really mad and wanted to shut down that PC and the pull down all the books on the nice lady’s desk and opened all the drawers spreading scissors, pens, food and magazines on the floor and did the whole baby-wants-attention-not-research-show. The library was not a place of silence and learning anymore. 

So the nice lady, still wanting to be helpful, offered to do the research for me so that I could calm the child. I accepted and she really did the research and made nice ticks on every case she found and then handed me some papers which were the printed out results of the search. I happily thanked her, took baby (now happy again), made a tour for books on the 6th floor and then we went home.    

So far, so good. Only today, when I wanted to use the results of the friendly lady’s research, I found out that she had researched literally nothing useful as the case-numbers can only be read by the system RIDA, not by RIS (which I would have realized in an instant if I had done the research myself) Suckers!!!!! Now I can do the library-tour again and the tour on Friday was completely useless (save for 2 essays). 

PS: And such catastrophes keep following me. On the weekend I was sick, so I couldn’t work a bit and had to ask my mother to baby-sit C. (which means that she will not baby-sit C. when I am healthy enough to work again). I’m only waiting for the day when my little white Mac explodes, it would just be so typical-my-life.

Finally a new foto from little C. and us for these who want to get an idea of our looks.   us  Hier ein Foto von unserer kleinen Familie (Katze fehlt –> für Katze auf „About“ clicken)