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August 2007 
Experimenting With The Fetal Position
Posted on May 20th, 2007
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Whitewave
Whitewave
Odd, huh?
I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed after a lovely sleep-in. But since I had cramps, I didn't much feel like getting out of bed yet. So I rolled around a bit, this way and that, and discovered a huge comfort spike when I lay on my side with my arms pulled in tight against my chest. In particular, my shoulders had to be scrunched up. I thought about the feeling of being hugged tight and that it felt like that. But I made the connection to the Fetal Position as well, and imagined what it must be like to be all balled up like that and where the pressure would be. It dawned on me that this is why I liked to sleep on my stomach. And I wondered if this is why strait jackets are made the way they are.
...
...just did a Google on strait jackets and found out they are a fetish item. Inneresting. Totally makes sense.
I remembered how aweful it was when I was pregnant that I couldn't sleep on my tummy, and that that was the first thing I did after giving birth as soon as they gave me the official okay - rolled over, scrunched up my shoulders, pulled my arms up tight and just laid there. So, then I tried the honest-to-God Fetal Position; legs and arms pulled in and tight and lay there for a while. My eyes closed and my mind wandered and I felt the most amazing comfort. It's like an endorphin thing. It was literally a rush of chemical yumminess. I drempt of ways to make a sling that used my bodyweight to pull everything in tight. It couldn't be that difficult. Like hanging at the bottom of a giant stocking.
I want one.
Then I turned on my heating pad and I couldn't believe the power of all this.
What does it all mean? Is this just the most profound expression of my Mother deprivation?
It makes me want to cry. But I feel too peaceful and comforted to cry. I'm just so sad. And I never want to move again.
~Ww
I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed after a lovely sleep-in. But since I had cramps, I didn't much feel like getting out of bed yet. So I rolled around a bit, this way and that, and discovered a huge comfort spike when I lay on my side with my arms pulled in tight against my chest. In particular, my shoulders had to be scrunched up. I thought about the feeling of being hugged tight and that it felt like that. But I made the connection to the Fetal Position as well, and imagined what it must be like to be all balled up like that and where the pressure would be. It dawned on me that this is why I liked to sleep on my stomach. And I wondered if this is why strait jackets are made the way they are.
...
...just did a Google on strait jackets and found out they are a fetish item. Inneresting. Totally makes sense.
I remembered how aweful it was when I was pregnant that I couldn't sleep on my tummy, and that that was the first thing I did after giving birth as soon as they gave me the official okay - rolled over, scrunched up my shoulders, pulled my arms up tight and just laid there. So, then I tried the honest-to-God Fetal Position; legs and arms pulled in and tight and lay there for a while. My eyes closed and my mind wandered and I felt the most amazing comfort. It's like an endorphin thing. It was literally a rush of chemical yumminess. I drempt of ways to make a sling that used my bodyweight to pull everything in tight. It couldn't be that difficult. Like hanging at the bottom of a giant stocking.
I want one.
Then I turned on my heating pad and I couldn't believe the power of all this.
What does it all mean? Is this just the most profound expression of my Mother deprivation?
It makes me want to cry. But I feel too peaceful and comforted to cry. I'm just so sad. And I never want to move again.
~Ww
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*big kisses*
hugs!
you know, i hated not being able to sleep on my tummy too and have never been able to get back into that position since, mostly… once the habit's broken it's hard to pick up. Like, i used to sleep on my left side all the time but don't as much since i broke that collarbone at 14 years old…
but enough about me. are you well?
Hi, Patrick!
[feels all warm and fuzzy]
Thank you.
Hi, Nicole!
Actually I'm not very well. I have a mysterious illness for which the tests are too expensive and MediCal doesn't pay for. So, I'm just trying not to be sick. Right now I don't feel too bad. But I really need some stability in my life before I can feel safe enough to be sick. So I'm not really into being sick right now. Maybe later.
Yeah, before my first child, I used to sleep flat on my front, arms straight down and tucked underneath me with my palms on my thighs and my neck bent back with my chin on my pillow. As a result my lower teeth are pretty smunched together - almost like I was wearing braces too tight. Pretty fucked up. But I couldn't go to sleep without that comfort. I've had chiropractors tell me that the reason I do that is because there's something wrong with my neck. But I know that's not it.
~Ww
Dear Ww, really sorry to hear about your health … hope it improves soon!
when i'm sad or off balance, i always feel it in the stomach, which makes it great to be massaged there (my massage therapist always finished the massages with that, it made me feel so calm) - the deep breathing of meditation provides a kind of “inner massage” which is partly what is so centring…