High heels and holding a new born baby
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By Joanie
@Freelanzer (10743)
Canada
April 24, 2018 6:31pm CST
When a smiling Kate Middleton emerged from the hospital holding the new born royal baby just 7 hours after giving birth, everyone was talking about how good she looked. I on the other hand, marveled at the fact that she wore high heels while holding a new born baby who was just a few hours old. I shuddered to think if she had tripped walking down those stone stairs. Whew! she made it!
Things have really changed from the time I gave birth. To begin with you didn't leave the hospital for 2 to three days and if you had a C section it could be longer. Today women are leaving within 24 hours of giving birth but most of us normal people still wear pumps or comfortable shoes.
Walking out of the hospital down stairs, teetering on 6 inch heels with baby in tow seems precarious to say the least. But this is royalty and they probably have to look royal all the time. Would anyone have complained if she had worn pumps? Of course not. Even if I wanted to leave the hospital 24 hours after giving birth It would have been mandatory to sit in a wheelchair and wheeled by a hospital attendant to a waiting vehicle.
Anyway, congratulations to the happy Royal couple on the birth of baby #3 high heels and all.
Photo is of Kate when she gave birth to Prince George. She also wore heels then.
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@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
25 Apr 18
I went out of the hospital after 24 hours of giving birth because it was hospital protocol to let the mother stay for at least 24 hours. If I were given the choice I would have left earlier. I went out of the hospital Monday, I went to take my final exams on Tuesday. And I didn't look like I just gave birth or I was ever pregnant at all because the only weight I gained during pregnancy was my baby's weight.
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@toniganzon (72517)
• Philippines
25 Apr 18
@nela13 Oh why was that? I didn't have any complications when I was pregnant and during labor. Everything went quick for me. I was in and out of the delivery room in 30 minutes.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
You are one of the lucky ones. These these days they let the mothers out early, not so in my time.
@nela13 (58720)
• Portugal
25 Apr 18
@toniganzon the same with me, I only gained my babies weight but I didn't go out of the hospital in 24 hours because my blood pressure was too low.
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@rebelann (112961)
• El Paso, Texas
25 Apr 18
I'd be on the floor in seconds if I tried to wear those kinds of heels. In my opinion they are really stupid no matter how sexy guys think they are.
Dad once told us a story of what he witnessed when he served in Korea back in the early 1960s, he'd been watching people working in the rice fields and had noticed a couple of the women were pregnant then one of them disappeared for a little while and when she stood up again she had a baby in her arms and was wrapping it in a papoose kinda thing that she put on her back and she went right back to work in the rice field. It stunned him I think.
The funny thing is that pioneer women had babies without any help from any doctor. Now women rely on doctors as if they were the ones who invented child birth.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
My mom had all her 4 children at home without the help of a doctor. My grandmother and aunts were the ones who helped with the delivery
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@rebelann (112961)
• El Paso, Texas
25 Apr 18
Midwives are better than doctors for normal births @Freelanzer
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
@rebelann I believe that but they make it so difficult for midwives to do their jobs today
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@andriaperry (117133)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Apr 18
Smiling face for the cameras.I bet at home she is not smiling.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
You never know what goes on behind closed doors
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
25 Apr 18
@Freelanzer
Congrats Kate and William and George I think it is on the birth of a new born baby. I could never walk in heels. I guess she is used to it.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
She must have a lot of training but good both mom and baby survived any trips.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
It is indeed a price to pay. When I leave the hospital with my babies no one is watching me and no one cares
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
I would be afraid I may fall and hurt the baby. Not safe for her or the baby.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
27 Apr 18
@aureliah She was too when she came out of the hospital
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@aureliah (24316)
• Kenya
27 Apr 18
@Freelanzer At least the dad was carrying the baby
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
25 Apr 18
i'd be like screw that.i just gave birth,i'm lying here for awhile.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
It is hard work to give birth unless you are superhuman. Of course we need our rest after, But I guess they couldn't keep the crowds waiting too long.
@silvermist (19702)
• India
25 Apr 18
I am not a fan of high heels these days.As you said,it was rather dangerous to wear high heels
while holding the baby and climbing down the stairs.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
I would rather choose safety and comfort over style especially when holding a child
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
26 Apr 18
Back in the day I was wheeled out of the hospital wearing the flats I wore on my way in. Lol! My daughter in law was barefoot, only because she decided to have her second child in a pool of water in her living room. Times have certainly changed!
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
My mom had all of us at home with the help of midwives at times and grandparents and aunts at other times.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
Another normal woman here - I would not put my baby's life in danger, Then perhaps she is an experienced high heels walker
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@thislittlepennyearns (62913)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
25 Apr 18
I don't understand why people are so obsessed with this.
@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
25 Apr 18
Perhaps they have something special, some special powers and lots of nannies to take care of their kids
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