He "MacGyvered" the birth!

to hold while he ran around the house looking for a clamp?

Or, better yet, why didn't he stay with his wife and new baby and just yell for his mother to get something?

around the house looking for something to clamp with? I have had kids. You don't normally do that after giving birth-*-and if you tried, your doctor would tell you to lie back down.

No doctor would suggest this.

Is there a third person involved the snip of the article doesn't identify? Either way - too much information!!!! LOL

Everyone flock to Costco to pick up these books to prove that you're cool with black people.

The grifting has started

She a freakin superwoman!

this story just doesn't make any sense. They had better stop because I am sure the truth will out and then they'll look like idiots, which they no doubt are...

Jesus is a helluva drug...pretty sure Rick James said that, or at least something similar

He's not the only super person in that house.

He held the baby and the after birth while she jumped up off the bathroom floor and ran up and down the stairs. Sure. Why wouldn't he hand her the baby while he looked?

The last few comments questioned how a just-delivered mother could run up and down stairs. What you're overlooking is that the search is to find something to clip off the placenta.

Meaning, forget the weakness from having just given birth, how the hell is she going to run up and down while still attached to the baby?

It's absurd that they "were running around looking for something to clip the afterbirth", but you missed an important piece. The placenta separates from the uterus after the baby delivers. It would be with the baby in Ben's arms. The bigger point is Ben should have just used his "magic hands" and clamped the cord with his fingers, no stress and they can casually find something to clamp the cord.

I agree I'm fuzzy on the mechanics, so before I posted I tried to check with some x-chrome people; I thought it emerged with the placenta, but I was chastised on that.

Regardless, the overwhelming opinion is that someone just giving birth to run around the house looking to clamp the umbilical chord attached to her seemed ridiculous, but even not, it still seemed the height of ridiculousness.

Just wanted to clear up the placenta issue for you

while she ran around looking for something to clamp the cord with ..

and apparently, in her house, the only thing available to clamp a cord was a hairpin.

(those generally reside IN my bathroom)....

and then, after her marathon post delivery sprint, she gives him all the credit for USING the hair pin.

I can how their marriage has lasted..they have a lot in common.
yes indeedy.

up and down stairs to get a bobby pin.

what the hell was wrong with your legs?

Candy have to tuck you back into bed after your harrowing adventure?

Rather than having a woman who'd just gone through precipitous labor and still likely had the cord hanging out of her before delivering the placenta run up and down stairs, he should have handed her the kid and gone looking himself.

I suppose he's above all that.

and I have yet to see one where the deliverer would hold the infant in one hand and the placenta in the other. THEN the woman who just delivered would run all over the house to find a hair pin? This is one of the more preposterous stories of this mythical family.

I guess she was nice enough. She just couldn't tell the truth even if her life depended on it. Her stories would be just as ludicrous as Carson's is.

His MOTHER was there. He could have stayed right where he was, with his wife and baby, while GRANDMA ran around the house looking for a clip.

Obviously, though, this is a totally made up story.

and then carry on this miraculous delivery. What a bunch of tripe.

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In addition to the other far-fetched details, Candy is in the midst of delivering her third son (Inexplicably, this is the one named Ben, Jr. - isn't that usually the first son?), and Dr. Carson's first question to her call for help is "Are you sure the baby is coming?"

Now, I'm no expert on pregnancy - being the holder of an X and a Y chromosome - but if a woman on her third child told me the baby was coming, I wouldn't waste time asking "Are you sure?" Several reasons spring to mind, but I'll go with the fact that I like my teeth the way they are.

He wasn't interested/intrigued (in the story at least).

"President Carson - The Chinese have launched missiles to New York"
"okay, keep me informed."

"President Carson - New York has just been destroyed"
"Are you sure? Do you need me to come into the situation room?"

alrighty then.

These people are the worst grifters.

so she is running around just seconds after giving birth. Did she stop the bleeding?


Jebus this is stupid.

First, the afterbirth and baby arrive together? Not in my experience, but then I've only had four...And he's holding the kid in one hand? How big are his hands--or how small the baby?? She's had more than one kid and Lamaze, but he doesn't hand her the child for breastfeeding/bonding, or call Grandma in to watch the new mother and baby, but sends them off to find something to clamp the cord (which doesn't really need clamping immediately-- it's not like that's a real emergency). And let us note this is in a BATHROOM--no floss, no bandages, no cloth to tear, no sanitary supplies around? Was he so wrapped up in being Doctor Daddy he couldn't think about the woman who was still bleeding--just the kid??? And she's cool with this?????
I'm not sure whether to laugh out loud or just shake my head.

That much is obvious.

I think I'll just mosey on over and check out the Amazon reviews. If they're not comedy gold we're seriously slipping.

So, there's at least one Amazon review. We'll see if it catches on.

Unfortunately, I overlooked the fact that his (or her) mother was in the house as well. Why couldn't been leave his mother with his wife while HE went looking for stuff?

This story is crap, but it's the stuff political legends are made of.

According to the story, she was helping to look anyway.

What a crock.

Pin.

with that one. Perfect - Pin Palin.

I'm betting every other woman who has given birth might think otherwise.

Been there, done that, or one in a hospital...can ahem drive the USS Nimitz, Reagan, Ford, he'll the full sixth fleet lined up through that one

Lady after births usually do not come that fast. And lady...a simple ahem shoe lace works in a damn pinch.

But it can cut due to how thin it is. My choice in a pinch, a flat, not round shoe lace

If it is new, even better.



Just that this story has more holes than the titanic.

Why couldn't he have just stayed with his wife and let his mother do the searching? She was there, supposedly helping the new mother look.

But you're right, of course, about the shoelace. All they had to do was look in the nearest closest.

"Let us pray for...Candy! Where are you going?"
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

maybe they should consider the Nut House .

By all accounts he was.

Dr. Mengele was also a good doctor.

He was also a Nazi, a madman, a sadist, and among the most vile of people to walk the Earth.