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"The Mommies" Talk Childbirth
An Interview with Caryl and Marilyn
By Elisa Ast All
America's favorite "Mommies," Caryl Kristensen and Marilyn Kentz, have a lot to say about motherhood as stand-up comics, TV personalities and authors of The Mother Load: When Your Life's on Spin Cycle and You Just Can't Get the Lid Up! (Diane Pub. Co., 1998). Though their children are now teenagers and beyond, the Mommies remember their birth experiences as though they happened yesterday. Like many women, childbirth left them with powerful memories – many of which were not funny at the time, but are now a part of their collective humor.
"Childbirth is something worth remembering because once you forget, you get pregnant again," says Caryl, the mother of two teenage sons.
Caryl got pregnant at age 21 after only two months of marriage, and spent her first pregnancy on her knees.
"I vomited for seven months – it was horrible," she says. "It was so horrible that my husband gave me knee pads for Christmas that year."
She avoided certain things that were sure to cause her to throw up: Gloria Vanderbilt perfume, feeling cold and the color red, for example. She and her husband, Len, a contractor, taped towels to the dashboard of their new red VW Rabbit so she wouldn't get sick in the car, but that didn't help her one fine day at the bank.
"I was in line at the bank, about five people deep, and I got a whiff of cologne from the man in front of me," she says. "Nausea came over me – when that wave of nausea comes, there's no stopping it – and I threw up on the man's shoes. He thought I was drunk."
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