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October 2007
UPDATE: What to do with a very pregnant wife?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The good news: The eggplant Parmesan from Scalini’s is excellent! Long walks with my wife are fun. And giving massages is quite romantic.
The bad news: the very pregnant Mrs. Garner is still very pregnant.
For those of you just joining the conversation, on Friday I wrote about my wife, Nakisha, being miserable with heartburn, nausea, back aches, swelling. Normally, she has given birth two weeks early. But not this time.
I received so many responses about how to make child number 3 arrive a bit quicker that I thought I’d provide an update.
On Friday evening, we took our obstetrician’s advice and visited the Italian restaurant in Smyrna to chow down on the fried purple veggie.
We heard the pledge that the dish would send mothers-to-be into labor within 48 hours, and hoped for the best.
Sunday evening … no dice.
This is by no means any type of indictment of the restaurant. Nakisha isn’t due until Nov. 8, but because our first two children came two weeks early, we’re hoping for similar grace.
And the good folks at Scalini’s offered the disclaimer that there was no guarantee for expecting mothers dining before their due date.
So we put that idea to rest.
We did, however, increased the amount of walking we typically do, taking a fun family stroll Saturday along the Chattahoochee River walking path in Roswell.
And although we didn’t have any labor activity, it was pretty clear that baby Madison had “dropped,” moving further down to the birth canal.
Other ideas that flew across our bow were hit or miss.
A prenatal massage therapist friend suggested using pressure points on my wife’s hands and feet to stimulate contractions.
I evidently didn’t do that right, because mostly what I got from Nakisha was, “Ow, that hurts!”
And the friend lives out of state, so having her make a visit to put wifey into labor won’t work.
Sex is out of the question. My wife absolutely doesn’t want to be touched right now.
And castor oil? Uh, eeww.
Let’s just say that since we’re in a drought, the local water system couldn’t take all the extra flushes.
For now, I’ve become content that my young daughter has learned early to exercise her woman’s prerogative to arrive late.
Hopefully, my wife will be equally accepting.
What do you think?
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What to do when your pregnant wife can’t wait any longer?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
How do you send a full-term pregnant woman into labor?
This is no riddle.
Wifey and I are expecting baby No. 3, and although the time is upon us, no bambino.
OK, I realize that “full term” doesn’t exactly mean “delivery now,” but she’s due.
Historically, Nakisha, my wife, gives birth two weeks early, and our due date is 13 days away.
Did I mention she’s miserable? Heartburn. Nausea. Back aches. Swelling. And even her maternity clothes are too small.
And with our second child being 18 months old, she’s been pregnant for nearly two years.
So being the control freaks that we are, Mrs. Garner and I decided to take matters into our own hands.
Word on the street has it that eggplant parmesan will do the trick.
And our obstetrician gave a glowing recommendation that we visit Scalini’s Italian Restaurant in Cobb County.
Legend has it, he said, that full-term pregnant women who eat the marinara-and-cheese-smothered breaded purple plant go into labor within 48 hours.
After hinting that maybe our doctor’s taking a kick-back from the restaurant, we agreed to try it.
Tonight we’ll give it a try, and hope for the best.
But if that doesn’t work, what will? Give us your labor-inducing recipes and urban legends.
