I bought myself another pregnancy magazine again. I've been reading so much material on the subject - from the internet, from books, from magazines - that I think I know all I can possibly know about pregnancy and childbirth without experiencing it for myself.
But I continue to buy the magazines - I don't know why. Maybe I just like looking at the pictures of babies and other preggie mothers.
In my new issue of Pregnancy and Birth I found some pictures of a woman giving birth. Quite graphic, I must say - you actually see the baby coming out of you-know-where, and there are some close up shots of the newborn all alien-like. I showed these pictures to Ad, just to see how he would react.
Ad: Eeww.. So gross! [Referring to pictures of the baby with the waxy greenish-cream coloured coating called vernix - this cheesy substance covers and protects the baby's skin in the womb. Some babies are born with a lot of vernix.]
Me: So how, you can tahan [witnessing the birth] or not?
Ad: Can lah. This is angmoh baby, that's why looks so gross. Chinese baby won't look like that.
Me: Nonsense, all babies look like that.
Ad: Eee... looks like cabbage...
Me: *speechless*
