Adventures in Babymaking (Patreon)

I woke up at 3:30 this morning so I could teach Long Island midwives. So it's been a DAY. We don't often teach midwives and didn't get any special training for them so it was frustrating that our boss was like "You all know pelvometry, right? I hope so, because you're teaching it on friday." My coworkers were like "I'm sorry, what is that?" And I was like "oh, is that the thing from last year, that we were taught 5 minutes before the session, where they just, like, felt the bones in our pelvis? Because that's all I remember about it. Refresher please?" So they sent us a video link two days ago and it was... helpful. But when you're telling people to reach inside you and feel your bones, you kinda want some hands on knowledge, you know? My coworkers were freaking out before the session. None of them felt ready to teach it. I had a decent grasp of it by then so I volunteered to teach that part to all the students before they were divided among us. But the video had involved a model of pelvis bones and I... didn't have one of those. So what you see above was my very last minute attempt to make a model pelvis. One of the most useful things my parents taught me was that the key to making pretty much anything was getting the basic shape right. It's easy to change the color of something. Most textures/materials can be mimicked. But shape is harder to change and if the shape is right, people will often fill in the blanks themselves. In the past I've Mcgyuvered a Harry Potter wand out of straws and black tape, and a snake out of a plastic spoon and green spike tape. Tape is super useful. So I needed a pelvic arch, a sacrum, a spine, a tail bone, and sitz bones. Believe it or not, the midwives were really impressed and managed to recognize all the parts right off the bat. I'm pretty proud of myself.