This summer I had a conversation with a lady behind me in line at Wal-mart while we waited. I have named her "the Real Woman New Mom" for reasons that will become obvious later.
The lady had a little girl in her cart. I asked how old she was. She would be 3 soon, and the little girl told me about some of the things they were doing for her party. The mom told me her daughter was born on the day the remnants of Hurricane Ike came through our area. We live an entire day's drive from the nearest ocean. Somehow the storm was still strong enough to give us tropical storm level winds. It was crazy. I remember being at my mom's house and watching trees essentially bent at a 90 degree angle in the gale. There were of course massive widespread power outages that lasted for days.
The lady said they asked her before she went home from the hospital if she had power at home. The rest of our conversation went like this:
Me: "Why does a baby need electricity? People have had babies for thousands of years."
Real Women New Mom: "Exactly. I told them that I did even though I didn't. I sterilized my breast pump on the front porch with a Bunsen burner. I grew up in a cabin in the woods. When there was no electricity our well pump didn't work so we melted snow on our wood stove for water."
I loved this lady. She is one tough cookie. I think you can now see why I call her The Real Woman New Mom.
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