I was talking to a friend today. She's a midwife. We were talking about midwifey-womanish things: panty-liners, curling irons, squealing, and how much we like the color pink.
The topic of IUDs came up. You know, intrauterine devices, a very small object placed in a woman's uterus that stops that uterus from growing a baby. Since she's a midwife, she installs and removes them all the time. She jokingly asked if someday I'd like to keep an IUD and scrapbook it.
"Uh, what?" I asked, "You can't be serious."
And with that she sighed and said, "Yes. I've had women ask to keep the removed IUD so they could scrapbook it."
AND THEN MY HEAD EXPLODED, INTERNET.
If you want to you can go read a thing I wrote for Vanessa's blog about how nursing my first child was very hard, how I cried, and then it changed my life. Be warned, male readers, I write about nursing over there, which may or may not be appropriate for your delicate lily eyes.
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Seriously?!?! You have to be kidding me!
Only in Utah!
Are they vintage, handmade IUDs first purchased on etsy? Because then it totally makes sense.
Do you wash it off first, or is the "patine" desirable?
P.S. Yeah, men just can't handle boobs.
Were you having a pillow fight?
and this is why i don't scrapbook. not at all.
p.s. good one tiffany!
cw
That is a devotion to scrapbooking that might signal a problem.
WomEn? As in, plural? As in, there is more than one woman in the world whose scrapbook contains this?
I had an IUD removed once, and the doctor joked about whether I wanted to have it bronzed. Little did I know....
I can't imagine why anyone would want to keep one just for memories. The memories of my IUD were lots of cramps and periods that were twice as long as they used to be. When they took mine out I didn't even look at it for fear of what was hitching a ride out of my uterus.
My word verification is "ovulacn." Coincidence?
I seriously can't think of anything to say about that little story...
I do know that it disturbed me. Greatly.
There are no words.
Except maybe "holy bat-crap crazy woman."
i can't think of how to respond, either. is truly unbelievable
Yeah, they can paste it in right next to the pathology slide of placenta and the baby's first poopy diaper.
This just proves scrapbookers are crazy! And why I will never scrapbook!
ewwww.
I don't even want to think about the other things that could possible be in that scrapbook.
I used to work in a scrapbooking store. GASP! I know. I really had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I swear they have a perfect product for storing said IUD. So glad that time in my life is over because I really don't want to field questions like, "Hey, do you have anything that I could keep this in. Preferrably something clear so it will be visable." (All while they are holding their IUD in my face. Nightmares tonight I tell ya.
And I thought I was gutsy for talking about my period on my blog the other day. You've got a uterus of steel girlfriend.
Copper, actually.
Now. Now do you believe Mormons are crazy? ;-)
scrapbooking has gone waaaay too far.
I mean, I love my IUD too (it has saved my bacon more than once) but come on.
I'm going to write a song on my keytar about this.
Gross. Why do you want something that has been in your uterus for years, getting slimed constantly, then pulled out of your vagina only to be put on cute paper with little flower embellishments and a cursive writing that says, "We decided we were ready for you"?! Crazy people. Crazy.
I am going to save mine to sell on etsy baw ha ha so funny I am.
Thanks for the link love!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA!
I knew I was forgetting something in this baby book...
Wow. Just wow. It is just disturbing on so many levels.
Ewwwwww! I'm a little sad that this was the first post of yours that I read, but I picked my jaw up off the floor and read on. Very entertaining.
Geo made me laugh.
Wow. Even I am stunned.
And I am rarely stunned when it comes to womanly things or scrapbooking.
Is it better/worse then eating your placenta?
That is wrong. So. wrong.
um, loved your post on nursing. =)
seriously? oh my good gracious alive. that is just so wrong on so many levels. my head just exploded as well. :)
So that people flipping through the scrapbook can sniff the air and say, "Is someone cooking fish??"
Nast.
This is still not as freaky as eating your placenta...
From one uterus of copper to another. . .seriously? I guess I should've had mine engraved before they placed it.
WOW... That's all there is to say about THAT.
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