A Canadian grandmother's essay
about essentially crashing her daughter-in-law's birth -- including
arriving after a C-section and getting to hold the baby while her
daughter-in-law was still in recovery -- has prompted lots of angry
comments on the newspaper site where it appeared last week.
Rhona
Bennett writes of rejecting her son's advice to wait until he called to
announce the baby's birth, hopping a train to Montreal, and (in cahoots
with her co-grandmother) bum-rushing the hospital after a few-hour's
gap in the update phone calls he was providing. The two bubbies called
the hospital looking for word, and naturally were rebuffed, so off they
went, in search of information, affirmation, and a grandbaby.
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