Great Expectations

August 7, 2006 - 10:00 PM by

Even a war can’t stop the Jews from being fruitful and multiplying (sorry, Nasrallah). Two prolific English-language Israeli bloggers are expecting imminent new bundles of joy.

Dot Co Dot Il (whose blog name is a nod to Israeli URL’s) is a new immigrant living in Jerusalem. He writes:

At times Mrs Co.Il feels like she is feeling contractions or that her water has broken so guess that is a sign that we are pretty close.

For me, the real indicator is when she wants to start cleaning the oven. Then I’ll know we’re really close.

And Noa, who has been blogging since she was a single woman in Jerusalem, is now married, “preggo,” as she says, in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana . . . and desperately looking for ways to induce labor:

I’ve stopped calling people on the phone. Inevitably, when someone answers, they immediately assume I must’ve had the baby – why else would I be calling? Maybe because I’m sitting home on my ever-expanding butt and need to talk?

. . . . I have purchased a bottle of castor oil. Although some may claim its an old wives’ tale, and it doesn’t really work, I’ve seen enough anecdotal evidence in the past few weeks to the contrary. I belong to this online chat room of other preggos, all due around the same time as me, called The Baby Center. Plenty of the women there are equally as fed up being pregnant in the heat of the summer, and one brave woman started quite the trend. She posted the recipe for the Castor Oil Milkshake and agreed to be the guinea pig.

The recipe is:
2 scoops of ice cream (any flavor)
2 oz. Castor Oil
1 c. milk
2 raw eggs (which are apparently necessary for the binding effect of the castor oil)

Anyway, she posted hourly updates after drinking the shake – keeping all of us informed as to the amount of diarrhea she was experiencing, and then left us hanging. Turned out she’d gone to the hospital to have her baby. Next thing you know, everyone is trying it! And for most of the women, who were pregnant enough, it works. They go into labour between 4 and 6 hours after the shake, and all have had relatively quick labors too.

Of course, my hubby, ever the party pooper, was quite upset about my taking the shake. I promised I would wait until all my exams were done, and that I would ask my exceedingly cautious OB/GYN what he thought of castor oil. He gave me the go-ahead! He said if it doesn’t work, it won’t do any harm, and if does work, the baby is ready to come out.

. . . . My mom thinks she’s coming with me to the delivery room . . . . All I can say is – if you weren’t there when the quarter went into the slot, you can’t be there to watch the candy bar come out!

Here’s hoping that by my next post, I’ll be a mommy!

Return to Israelity for updates. Good luck to all pregnant bloggers!

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2 Comments on Great Expectations

  1. Seth on Mon, Aug 7th 2006 10:41 PM

    2. Perhaps eggs in Israel are free of pathogens, being closer to god and all – but I doubt that any doctor would advise very pregnant women to be ingesting lots of raw egg (or meat).

  2. Sarah on Mon, Aug 7th 2006 11:10 PM

    3. Seth-

    I thought of that, too, but Noa is studying to be a NURSE, and she says she asked her doctor about it, so I can only assume that they both thought the risk is negligible.

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