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<blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1869928" data-attributes="member: 468714"><p>T'was a drought year in outback Australia. The farmer's wife was expecting their first child, and due to health cutbacks the wife was having a home birth with the local midwife and doctor attending.</p><p>The day of the onset of labour began. The farmer, anxious for his wife, called the midwife out early and then paced around the verandah of the house. His thoughts turned often to the poor year of farming they has endured. The wheat crop was the worst for some years and the long range weather repots were not reassuring.</p><p>Occasionally he would hear his wife inside and he would yell out some encouragement. " Good on you, Shirley". He had strict instructions to stay outside. He might have helped the cows to calve but as the missus said, her pregnancy and birth of their child did not require the use of a tractor and other such equipment used for big animals.!</p><p>Then the doctor was called for as the birth progressed. The farmer continued pacing about, hearing grunts and screams and the occasional swear word which he had not known his wife knew. In amongst all this his thoughts wandered back to the poor wheat harvest over and over. </p><p>Finally he heard a feeble little cry. He raced around the verandah and into the room set up for the birth. There the doctor was holding the baby, a small, wizened, little boy, with his faint crying. "Crumbs", said the farmer, "There's not much of him."</p><p>The doctor with a deadpan expression said, " Well, in a drought year, you're lucky to get your seed back".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kitedoc, post: 1869928, member: 468714"] T'was a drought year in outback Australia. The farmer's wife was expecting their first child, and due to health cutbacks the wife was having a home birth with the local midwife and doctor attending. The day of the onset of labour began. The farmer, anxious for his wife, called the midwife out early and then paced around the verandah of the house. His thoughts turned often to the poor year of farming they has endured. The wheat crop was the worst for some years and the long range weather repots were not reassuring. Occasionally he would hear his wife inside and he would yell out some encouragement. " Good on you, Shirley". He had strict instructions to stay outside. He might have helped the cows to calve but as the missus said, her pregnancy and birth of their child did not require the use of a tractor and other such equipment used for big animals.! Then the doctor was called for as the birth progressed. The farmer continued pacing about, hearing grunts and screams and the occasional swear word which he had not known his wife knew. In amongst all this his thoughts wandered back to the poor wheat harvest over and over. Finally he heard a feeble little cry. He raced around the verandah and into the room set up for the birth. There the doctor was holding the baby, a small, wizened, little boy, with his faint crying. "Crumbs", said the farmer, "There's not much of him." The doctor with a deadpan expression said, " Well, in a drought year, you're lucky to get your seed back". [/QUOTE]
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