Posted on 03/02/2010 5:56:33 AM PST by cajuncow
Invitation or not, Tova Phillips wanted to be at his parents' wedding reception.
He didn't quite make it, though.
By the time he arrived on Saturday, the wedding party had moved to Flower Hospital in Sylvania, where his mother gave birth to the precocious party-crasher.
"I don't think anybody expected it," Jamie Phillips said as she held her tiny son in her arms yesterday, her wedding veil still lying next to the sink in her hospital room. "It was a running joke, but when it actually happened everybody was like, 'You've got to be kidding!'•"
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
Alternative headline: “Baby born clutching shotgun”
I was born several months “premature” myself.
Better than in the backseat a Greyhound bus, rolling down highway 41.
So they think the guy she's marrying is also the father?
Appears they do. Who names a boy “Tova”?
Amazing what passes for humor these days! And what makes the news!!! Isn’t it time to teach “shame” again?
Just an old fuddy-duddy!
Coming soon, a new reality series
My big fat maternity ward wedding
I echo your sentiments. And I just wish FOR ONCE that the first baby born in a New Year (an event highly publicized by local news outlets) was born to parents who were actually married to each other.
LOL
This year in my county, for a change, the parents were married *and* employed. The baby was born at home, delivered by his grandmother, who is an obstetrics nurse. Started the year off right!
I read once that the 9-month gestation period was established so that the shotguns could be “polished”...
My middle daughter is getting married in June at age 26, no babies- she said the other day she must be a fuddy-duddy. Hooray for fuddy-duddies we need more.
“”Hooray for fuddy-duddies we need more.””
At last, I fit into a category! Don’t you love the weddings where a child is part of the wedding party when the parents are finally getting married? Or perhaps they are not BOTH the parent of the child...Or where the bride is decked out in traditional wedding regala? Can’t give up a thing - the party must go on.
I didn’t realize this was “their” picture. They certainly look old enough to know better, don’t they?
They look very happy.
They got married. Let’s be thankful for that.
This reminds me of my senior year in H.S. Only it was prom night. Yes, she was all decked out in her maternity prom dress and went into labor.
Better late than never.
Exactly.
We ought to all be thankful they at least got married, but sheesh ... doesn't the couple, or the newspaper, have any shame?
Remember that line in the Sound of Music, a line that was cause for much chuckling, when Uncle Max told the Nazi, "How many children do you know who attend their parents' wedding?"
It's certainly not funny anymore. Not in these days when a couple will live together, even have one or two children, but still pronounce that they're "not ready to get married."
What a world. Sheesh.
I hear you, but sadly, so many couples never even marry these days.
Hey, at least this couple tried ot beat the clock-
look how many wait to get married until the bride “gets her figure back” so she can fit into her slinky white gown
(Like Mrs Michael (Catherine Zeta-Jones) Douglas and Mrs Tom (Katie Holmes) Cruise
Or until the kids are old enough to be flower girls and ring bearers
Or until the pre-nup is worked out and signed
(sigh)
I can’t believe the number of people who have told me that they would never get married unless they’d lived together first. Have to see if it will work before you make the commitment.
not your date, we presume ;-)
I can’t believe so manmy women (and men) are willing to be test driven!
I suppose the dress for the prenuptial dinner was fashionably designed with one small hole in the front and one in the rear.
No, I was a very clean cut GIRL in HS.
oh, OK- not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Our head cheerleader did plan her delivery for April so she’d fit into her prom dress!
o.m.g.
No kidding. I adore my husband, but if he would've suggested “trying it out first”, I would have dumped him in a heartbeat. Thankfully, he's a good guy and the thought never even crossed his mind.
And, to take it further, after 5 years of living together, when the gal gets pregnant, the same couple proclaims their joy at becoming parents but in the same breath say they aren’t ready to get married.
I can partially understand why cohabitating before marriage would be common among the college-educated ... they’ve had four or more years of liberal brainwashing.
But for the life of me I can’t understand why blue-collar Americans, especially women, allow it to happen.
As my mother-in-law used to day, reflecting on past wisdom regarding current truths, “why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” Any man will cohabitate, rather than get married, if the woman allows it.
If one wants to wax philosophical...maybe the women’s movement has led to girls respecting themselves less than before. If the only difference between men and women is a few body parts, then why demand that he treat you like a lady? You don’t deserve to be treated special or taken care of; you must be tough enough to take care of yourself.
Combine that with the constant, in your face promotion of casual sex in the entertainment industry and eliminate any fear of God; and there you have it. There is no reason to think of yourself as deserving any better. Just my $.02 worth.
Unpaid whore vs. cherished wife. Speaking as one who has been both, I believe I prefer cherished wife, thank you.
I hear ya. I remember when dressing up as a pregnant bride used to be considered a funny Halloween costume. Now people would ask what the punchline was.
I also notice whenever a mother and her child are in the news for some reason, they never have the same last name. Does anybody get married, THEN get pregnant, and then STAY married anymore?
I’ve never really understood the whole cow-milk cliche. Really if the only thing a person is getting out of a relationship is sex (milk) they shouldn’t get married. There’s a lot of other good stuff (more milk) that comes with a relationship, most of which is free long before anybody even talks marriage and happens fully clothed.
Just eeewwwwwwwwwww!
There's an old adage that "men use love for sex and women use sex for love." While it's not fair to tar all men and women with this fact, as a middle-aged fellow married for 22 years to the same woman, and having observed countless friends, both men and women, in successful and failed marriages, and in cohabitation situations, I can say that it is a subtle motivation in all circumstances.
The corollary to the above is that when sex is largely restricted to marriage, then the natural urge of men to not make a commitment is thwarted. Not all men, mind you -- but most.
There have been many instances throughout world history where, when unrestricted sex is available without commitment, men lose themselves in orgy and neither take care of the women or the offspring; also, because they are so sex-besotten they lose their other urges to invent, create, protect, etc.
I am hardly the expert here ... Dennis Prager talks about this frequently and some of his books dwell on the topic. And his thesis reflects a certain fact -- that civilization, and civilized humanity, depends on a male sex drive channeled toward marriage and responsibility for offspring.
The adage about the cow and milk really derives from the very primal urges of men.
There is subtle evidence of this in today's post-modern Europe. The decline of the Christian faith, the rise in women's income, and the widespread use of birth control means that (1) neither men nor women have to worry about the consequences of sex beyond pleasure; and (2) they do not have to marry -- why bother?
Look at today's American teens. In the old days, boys had to dress nice and take girls out on dates just in order to be able to hold her hand and get a chaste kiss. Today, teen male slobs can get whatever they want from randy or desperate teen girls.
Sorry, I could go on about this for ages ...
That’s just addictive behavior. That’s got nothing to do with the cow-milk cliche, that’s entirely about a subset of people (which comes from both genders) that when given ready access to instant gratification (of any type, drugs, sex, whatever) will instantly gratify themselves to death.
In a relationship, marriage or otherwise, there is no unrestricted access to sex. So none of the addictive behavior applies.
I still say anybody that thinks the only reason to be in a relationship is sex, that’s sex is the milk, just plain shouldn’t get married anyway, they’re missing 90% of the reasons relationships exist.
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