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Q: How to get to array with the smallest sum I was given this interview question, and I totally blanked out. How would you guys solve this:
Go from the start of an array to the end in a way that you minimize the sum of elements that you land on.

*

*You can move to the next element, i.e go from index 1 to index 2.

*Or you can hop one element over. i.e go from index 1 to index 3.

A: Assuming that you only move from left to right, and you want to find a way to get from index 0 to index n - 1 of an array of n elements, so that the sum of the path you take is minimum. From index i, you can only move ahead to index i + 1 or index i + 2.
Observe that the minimum path to get from index 0 to index k is the minimum between the minimum path to get from index 0 to index k - 1 and the mininum path from index 0 to index k- 2. There is simply no other path to take.
Therefore, we can have a dynamic programming solution:
DP[0] = A[0]
DP[1] = A[0] + A[1]
DP[k] = min(DP[0], DP[1]) + A[k]

A is the array of elements.
DP array will store the minimum sum to reach element at index i from index 0.
The result will be in DP[n - 1].

A: This seems like the perfect place for a dynamic programming solution.
Keeping track of two values, odd/even.
We will take Even to mean we used the previous value, and Odd to mean we haven't.
int Even = 0; int Odd = 0;
int length = arr.length;

Start at the back. We can either take the number or not. Therefore:
Even = arr[length];
Odd = 0;`

And now we move to the next element with two cases. Either we were even, in which case we have the choice to take the element or skip it. Or we were odd and had to take the element.
int current = arr[length - 1]
Even = Min(Even + current, Odd + current);
Odd = Even;

We can make a loop out of this and achieve a O(n) solution!

A: Java:
static int getMinSum(int elements[])
{
    if (elements == null || elements.length == 0)
    {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("No elements");
    }
    if (elements.length == 1)
    {
        return elements[0];
    }
    int minSum[] = new int[elements.length];
    minSum[0] = elements[0];
    minSum[1] = elements[0] + elements[1];
    for (int i = 2; i < elements.length; i++)
    {
        minSum[i] = Math.min(minSum[i - 1] + elements[i], minSum[i - 2] + elements[i]);
    }
    return Math.min(minSum[elements.length - 2], minSum[elements.length - 1]);
}

Input:
int elements[] = { 1, -2, 3 };
System.out.println(getMinSum(elements));

Output:
-1

Case description:
We start from the index 0. We must take 1. Now we can go to index 1 or 2. Since -2 is attractive, we choose it. Now we can go to index 2 or hop it. Better hop and our sum is minimal 1 + (-2) = -1.
Another examples (pseudocode):
getMinSum({1, 1, 10, 1}) == 3
getMinSum({1, 1, 10, 100, 1000}) == 102

Algorithm:
O(n) complexity. Dynamic programming. We go from left to right filling up minSum array. Invariant: minSum[i] = min(minSum[i - 1] + elements[i] /* move by 1 */ , minSum[i - 2] + elements[i] /* hop */ ).

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What happened at Colonial Williamsburg during Mitchell Reiss' tenure
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Mitchell Reiss began his tenure as the President of Colonial Williamsburg in October 2014.
Mitchell Reiss began his tenure as the President of Colonial Williamsburg in October 2014. (Judith Lowery / Daily Press)
Amelia Heymann, Rodrigo Arriazaaheymann@vagazette.com
This story has been updated.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation President Mitchell Reiss will step down from his post in October. Here's a roundup of major changes Colonial Williamsburg has seen during his time there.
» Oct. 2014: Reiss begins his tenure as Colonial Williamsburg Foundation president.
» May 2015: Forrest Mars Jr. donates $10 million to CW for a new archaeology and collections building in the name of Nancy and Colin Campbell.
» June 2015: A hands-on archaeology dig site geared toward children called DIG! Kids, Dirt, and Discovery opens.
» Sept. 2015: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced its first-ever mascot: a Briard puppy named Liberty.
» Oct. 2015: Haunting on DoG Street is launched, a two-day Halloween celebration with trick-or-treating and more.
» Nov. 2015: CW opened Liberty Ice Pavilion, an ice skating rink in Merchants Square.
» Dec. 2015: CW announced a partnership with the Historic First Baptist Church to repair the church's Freedom Bell. CW loaned a team of its historic conservation experts for this project.
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Colonial Williamsburg's Liberty Ice Pavilion.
Colonial Williamsburg's Liberty Ice Pavilion. (Steve Roberts Jr/Virginia Gazette)
» Feb. 2016: CW runs an ad in select Northeast cities during the Super Bowl which featured film of historic events running backward.
» Feb. 2016: First Baptist Church's Freedom Bell repaired. People could sign up to ring the bell all month as part of the "Let Freedom Ring Challenge."story.html
» March 2016: CW adds a flint musket range.
» May 2016: Remodeling work begins on the Golden Horseshoe Golf Club's Gold Course.
» May 2016: Lawn bowling green behind Williamsburg Inn closes to make way for Gold Course expansion.
» May 2016: CW opens Liberty Lounge, a rest spot for active duty and retired military guests and their families
» March 2017: CW resurfaces the idea of putting up a fence to keep those without tickets out of the historic area. At the time, Reiss said CW was losing money from people in the historic area without a ticket. However, Duke of Gloucester is a city-owned street.
» April 2017: Ground is broken for the expansion of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. The project will add 65,000 square feet to the building and includes a new cafe, more gallery space and a new entrance. The project is completely donor-funded, at just under $42 million. The new wing is poised to open to the public in April 2020.
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The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg expansion project will add 65,000 square feet to the building.
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg expansion project will add 65,000 square feet to the building. (Amelia Heymann/Staff)
» June 2017: Reiss announces a massive restructuring in an effort to course-correct, raise revenue and limit expenses after years of financial troubles. 71 CW employees are laid off, and another 262 jobs in its golf operations, product and retail management, landscaping and facilities management departments are outsourced. The Kimball Theater is closed.
» June 2017: Williamsburg Inn reopens after remodeling. Improvements included an expanded patio, upgraded golf course and spa.
» July 2017: Golden Horseshoe Golf Club's Gold Course reopens after remodeling.
» July 2017: A new axe-throwing range opens.
» Aug. 2017: CW leases Kimball Theatre to William and Mary for three and a half years to use while Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall undergoes renovations.
Jonathon Gruenke / Daily Press
Guest walk along Duke of Gloucester Street in front of the Kimball Theatre Thursday afternoon June 29, 2017.
Guest walk along Duke of Gloucester Street in front of the Kimball Theatre Thursday afternoon June 29, 2017. (Jonathon Gruenke / Daily Press)
» June 2018: CW moves administrative headquarters from the Goodwin Building in Merchants Square to the Bruton Heights Education Center Campus. Colonial Williamsburg had utilized the Merchants Square office as its headquarters since 1940. Since the move, the foundation has worked with a redeveloper to convert the 42,412-square-foot building into an apartment building with retail on its first floor.
» June 2018: CW moves its long-running Summer Breeze Concert Series from Duke of Gloucester Street to the lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.
» July 2018: Binns of Williamsburg moves out of Merchants Square. The clothing store had called Duke of Gloucester Street its home for over 55 years; it reopens in a new storefront at WindsorMeade Marketplace in James City County later that year.
» Sept. 2018: Colonial Williamsburg announced the retirement of its two Briard dog mascots, Liberty and Justice.
Rodrigo Arriaza / Virginia Gazette
Colonial Williamsburg left its former administrative headquarters in the Goodwin Building last summer.
Colonial Williamsburg left its former administrative headquarters in the Goodwin Building last summer. (Rodrigo Arriaza / Virginia Gazette)
» Oct. 2018: Mellow Mushroom opens in the Henry Street Shops as part of a growing effort to diversify dining options downtown.
» Oct. to Dec. 2018, and ongoing: CW's proposal for Goodwin Square first appears before city boards, but was withdrawn before its final hearing at City Council. The original plan called for an outdoor plaza taking the place of CW's P3 parking lot, and would have included a splash pad for kids, outdoor seating and a 12x19-foot video wall.
The proposed downtown plaza is one of 11 projects under consideration by Williamsburg's Tourism Development Fund Grant Review Committee. The new plan for Goodwin Square calls for a temporary video screen rather than a permanent one.
» Nov. 2018: City Council signs off on a request from CW to hold outdoor concerts at its 21-acre Palace Farms field, but no programming has been scheduled yet.
» June 2019 and ongoing: Precarious Beer Hall opened in Merchants Square. Other openings on the horizon: Illy Coffee is expected to open in part of the former Binns building, and other yet-to-be-announced tenants will open throughout Merchants Square over the next year.
Binns left its Duke of Gloucester Street storefront in 2018.
Binns left its Duke of Gloucester Street storefront in 2018. (Judith Lowery / Daily Press)
Arriaza can be reached at 757-790-9313 or on Twitter @rodrigoarriaza0. Heymann can be reached by phone at 757-298-5828 or on Twitter at @HeymannAmelia.
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class SphincsVerify : public PublicKeyVerify {
 public:
  static constexpr crypto::tink::internal::FipsCompatibility kFipsStatus =
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  static crypto::tink::util::StatusOr<std::unique_ptr<PublicKeyVerify>> New(
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QLED displays use quantum dots to enhance colors, and Samsung's televisions support HDR by delivering up to 1,000 nits of brightness—just like the 65-inch G-Sync "BFGDs" that Nvidia showed off yesterday at Computex. Fight!
Adding FreeSync to televisions makes a lot of sense. AMD chips with integrated Radeon graphics sit in the heart of modern consoles. In March, Microsoft's Xbox One S and Xbox One X added support for FreeSync.
On the desktop side of things, the integrated Radeon graphics in AMD's Ryzen APUs make them prime options to power home theater PCs, and with HDR-capable PC monitors still being a relatively new (and expensive) endeavor, some PC gamers connect their rigs to televisions to bask in glorious high-dynamic range visuals. While Nvidia's rival G-Sync technology is limited to DisplayPort connections—a rarity on television sets—FreeSync works over HDMI as well.
FreeSync synchronizes the refresh rate of the display and your graphics processor, smoothing out gameplay by eliminating tearing and stutter. The press release doesn't specific whether activating FreeSync on Samsung's QLED TVs requires any visual compromises, but Digital Trends reported that the quiet update pushed to some sets last month could cause some brightness issues. Variable refresh rate technology smooths out gameplay so much that it's probably a worthwhile compromise if the issue flares up on your TV, though, especially if you're playing on Xbox.
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"Many professionals can relate to this mobile phone use case, and this clearly underscores the fact that many if not most mobile phone users keep their device on, and nearby, 24 hours a day," states Knotice in the report (.pdf).
Other data found in the quarterly report pertains to opens by industry, location and demographics. It reveals the iPhone dominates in terms of email interaction, despite Android's increasing market penetration and the effect of a mobile user's demographic on their mobile email open behavior.
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Michael Halassa's research is focused on the neural basis of cognitive control and flexibility, particularly in attention and decision-making. At a party, for example, it may be possible to talk to one person, but selectively listen to a different conversation happening nearby. It is this ability to switch our attention with agility that Halassa studies in his lab. He has developed behavioral models of cognitive function in mice, allowing him to probe the underlying neural circuits and computations using behaviorial analysis, electrophysiology, and genetics. His work has revealed a new role for the thalamus – once considered a simple relay station for sensory information – in initiating, sustaining and switching cognitive representations. He also studies how attention and cognitive flexibility are disrupted in disorders including schizophrenia, autism, and ADHD.
Halassa is a board-certified psychiatrist with fellowship training in psychotic disorders. Motivated by this clinical training, Halassa studies how the brain generates hypotheses about the world and how these hypotheses may be corrupted by disease processes. Halassa suggests that an inability to switch between different hypotheses may be at the root of schizophrenia and related disorders. For example, individuals with schizophrenia may make assumptions about the world that are highly improbable, and have difficulty updating such beliefs, even in the presence of concrete information. By developing perceptual tasks in animals that capture the underlying basic cognitive operations, the Halassa Lab aims to understand how the healthy brain generates such hypotheses and why the diseased brain has difficulty changing or revising them.
Michael Halassa joined the McGovern Institute for Brain Research as an associate investigator in 2017. Originally from Jordan, Halassa received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a postdoc in the laboratory of Matt Wilson at MIT, while also doing a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. He joined the NYU faculty in 2014.
Thalamic control of sensory selection in divided attention. Wimmer, R.D., Schmitt, L.I., Davidson, T.J., Nakajima, M., Deisseroth, K., Halassa, M.M. (2015). Nature 526, 705-709.
Thalamic amplification of cortical connectivity sustains attentional control. Schmitt, L.I., Wimmer, R.D., Nakajima, M., Happ, M., Mofakham, S., Halassa, M.M. (2017). Nature 545, 219-223.
Thalamic regulation of switching between cortical representations enables cognitive flexibility. Rikhye, R.V., Gilra, A., Halassa, M.M. (2018). Nature Neuroscience 21, 1753-1763.
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Dolan family sues Altice USA over layoffs at News 12 cable stations
By James T. Madore james.madore@newsday.com @JamesTMadore Updated September 5, 2018 9:01 AM
Cablevision founder Charles Dolan and members of his family filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Altice USA, which bought Cablevision two years ago, alleging it has laid off News 12 employees in violation of the sale agreement.
The Dolan family said in the lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court that Altice has already cut 70 News 12 Network employees, plans to terminate a second group as early as this week and will cut "an additional 10 percent of the staff in each successive year" -- in violation of the agreement between the Dolans and Altice's parent, Altice N.V. of the Netherlands.
The family is seeking an injunction to prevent further layoffs at News 12 and compel Altice USA to adhere to the sales agreement, which paved the way for Altice N.V. to purchase Cablevision Systems Corp. of Bethpage for $17.7 billion in 2016.
The News 12 subsidiary has won Emmys for its news coverage of Long Island, parts of New York City and its northern suburbs, western Connecticut and northern New Jersey.
The sale agreement was supposed "to maintain the quality of the local news content produced by News 12, and designed to protect News 12 employees and their salaries for an extended and fixed period of time," the Dolans said in the suit.
Altice USA spokeswoman Lisa Anselmo said in a statement Tuesday: "This lawsuit is completely without merit and we will defend against it vigorously ... Altice USA remains committed to offering meaningful news coverage, enhancing our news product for our local communities, and growing our audience."
The lawsuit says Altice agreed "to incur up to $60 million in losses to maintain News 12's existing level of 462 employees" through at least December 2020.
Charles Dolan's son Patrick Dolan, senior network adviser at News 12 and former News 12 president, said in an interview on Tuesday that the cable channels turned an operating profit last year and will report a higher profit this year. Newsday majority owner Patrick Dolan last month effectively acquired the remaining ownership stake in Newsday.
Patrick Dolan said Altice's second round of News 12 layoffs would affect 15 to 20 employees, "the brunt of them on Long Island."
He said, "A newsroom is more than its spreadsheet. It's a public responsibility."
In addition to Charles and Patrick Dolan, the lawsuit's other plaintiffs are Charles' wife, Helen, son, James, and News 12 anchor Colleen McVey. Altice executives have told McVey that she is among the employees to be laid off this month, Patrick Dolan said.
In a hiring announcement after the Dolans filed the lawsuit, Michael Schreiber, president of Altice USA News, which includes News 12, said the company "is committed to offering more integrated and meaningful news coverage, and our ratings and digital growth show that viewers are responding positively to our efforts."
Schreiber announced the appointment of Chris Vaccaro as vice president of digital news and Kristin Malaspina as vice president of marketing and audience.
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2021/127 "Thai PM Remains Vulnerable Without a Party of His Own" by Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The mastermind behind this revolt on 4 September 2021 was Thammanat Prompao, secretary-general of the PPP, the largest party in the 17-party ruling coalition and Thailand's Deputy Agriculture Minister. In this picture, Thammanat Prompao gestures at Government House before the swearing-in ceremony of the new Thai cabinet in Bangkok on 16 July 2019. Photo: Lillian SUWANRUMPHA, AFP.
Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha has narrowly escaped "political assassination" in the House of Representatives.
A formidable faction in the Phalang Pracharat Party (PPP), the largest in the 17-party ruling coalition, was scheming to join the opposition to vote out the prime minister at the conclusion of a four-day censure debate held in early September. The mastermind behind the attempted "political assassination" was PPP secretary-general Captain Thammanat Prompao.
Fortuitously for Prayut, one of the prime movers in the anti-Prayut faction of the PPP defected, and alerted the prime minister. PPP leader Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan pleaded ignorance of this move for his failure to alert General Prayut of this plot.
General Prayut counter-attacked vigorously and prevailed. He survived a no confidence vote on 4 September and sacked Captain Thammanat from the post of deputy agriculture minister – without consulting General Prawit, who had tried to protect Captain Thammanat.
Distrust between General Prayut and General Prawit – two leaders of the 2014 coup – may have already emerged, and this will have significant implications for Thai politics.
Prayut's position now looks vulnerable.
* Termsak Chalermpalanupap is Visiting Fellow in the Thailand Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha recently narrowly survived a "political assassination attempt" by an influential faction of the largest government party. Although he emerged victorious, his premiership now looks vulnerable.
In what General Prayut considered an "ambush", a group of government MPs, mostly from the Phalang Pracharat Party (PPP) but including several MPs from micro-parties in the ruling coalition, prepared to join the opposition in voting against the prime minister at the conclusion of the recent no-confidence debate. Should this have happened, General Prayut would have been the first premier in 89 years of Thai parliamentary democracy ever to be voted out in a censure.
Unconvincingly, PPP leader Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan claimed he was unaware of the developing revolt, and could therefore not alert his "beloved younger brother" General Prayut to the plot.
DARING REVOLT
The plan was rather straightforward. Plotters aimed to recruit 40-50 government MPs to join opposition MPs in voting against General Prayut in the no-confidence showdown in the House of Representatives on 4 September. General Prayut's premiership would immediately have ended, and ministers in his cabinet would have had to leave office en masse.
The mastermind behind this revolt was Captain Thammanat Prompao, secretary-general of the PPP, the largest party in the 17-party ruling coalition. The 56-year-old former Army officer was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture. When elected party secretary-general on 18 June, he pledged to transform the PPP into a strong "political institution", and erase its image of being an "ad hoc party" set up just to serve one person or one group.[1]
Captain Thammanat had previously described himself as the "main artery of the government", and even claimed that, without him, the Prayut administration would collapse.[2] He headed a powerful PPP faction known as the "Four Deputies", which included Deputy Finance Minister Santi Promphat, Deputy Labour Minister Dr Narumon Pinyosinwat, and Deputy Transport Minister Athirat Rattanaset. Also included in the faction was Athirat's father Virat, the ruling coalition's chief whip and a deputy PPP leader.
All of these figures have close ties to party leader General Prawit, and their faction controlled about 40 MPs, including at least half of the 26 members of the PPP's executive committee.[3]
Captain Thammanat also has close links with government MPs from the ruling coalition's 10 micro-parties, nine with just one MP each and the tenth with two. The plotters had approached these MPs to urge them to vote against General Prayut; some of them had agreed.[4] When the four-day no-confidence debate against General Prayut and his five ministers[5] started on 31 August, Captain Thammanat thought that he had enough votes to oust the premier. The only hint that a political upheaval might be coming was Captain Thammanat's insistence that all PPP MPs could freely decide on how to vote at the end of the no-confidence debate.[6]
Captain Thammanat's objectives were simple but ambitious.
After unseating General Prayut, the PPP would nominate General Prawit — the principal deputy prime minister, with responsibility for national security — for the premiership.[7]
In the new Prawit administration, Captain Thammanat would become interior minister, with control over provincial governors and the second largest budget allocation of any government agency.[8] Controlling the Interior Ministry is crucial to fulfilling Captain Thammat's mission of making the PPP the top party in Thailand's next general election.
Having enticed the PPP's coalition partners to support a Prawit premiership, the new government would allocate more cabinet posts to each of those partners. General Prayut's departure would free up several cabinet seats, including interior, defence, finance and energy.[9]
VIGOROUS COUNTER-ATTACK
This plot was the most serious challenge to General Prayut's premiership in the seven years since he, as Army chief, led the coup that toppled the Phuea Thai-led government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on 22 May 2014.
It so alarmed General Prayut that he sought urgent clarification from his "big brother" General Prawit. The response from General Prawit must have been quite reassuring to the premier: There would be no change! General Prawit did not want to be prime minister.
More importantly, General Prayut also received even more important reassurance – word from the palace that the King continued to have confidence in his premiership. These assurances emboldened General Prayut to strike back vigorously. He made three points in an unusual long impromptu talk to the media at the parliament on 1 September: no plan to reshuffle his cabinet, no plan to dissolve the House and call for an early general election, and no truth to reports that he had lost the confidence of the King.[10]
On the crucial third point, he added, "To claim that someone higher up wants to replace the prime minister is a serious offense. I was the only one who most recently had an audience [with the King] to report on government matters. No one else did that. Isn't this clear?"[11]
Following the premier's remarks, Captain Thammanat's revolt began to fizzle out. Santi was the first in the Four Deputies faction to defect. On 2 September, he was seen inside a reception room at the parliament where General Prayut received groups of MPs from the PPP, including several MPs from Santi's group.
One opposition MP complained to the House Speaker during the censure debate that General Prayut was bribing each government MP with 5 million baht in cash to vote for him.[12] But, when it was his turn to respond in the House, General Prayut denied bribing any MPs. He clarified that he merely received groups of government MPs, whom he had rarely met in the past, and that they just called on him to show support for his premiership.
UNFORGIVEABLE DAMAGE DONE
As it turned out, General Prayut and the five ministers facing censure all passed the no-confidence voting. But political damage from what Captain Thammanat attempted to do was serious and seemingly unforgiveable.
Outcome of the No-Confidence Vote on 4 September 2021
Even though only four government MPs[13] voted against him, General Prayut received the second lowest number of votes, only 264; the lowest went to Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin, 263.
Worse still, the prime minister received the highest number of votes of no confidence, 208. Such a double embarrassment is the worst outcome of the three censure votes that he has faced,[14] and Prayut quickly retaliated by seeing to the dismissal of Captain Thammanat and Dr Narumon from the cabinet before they could submit their resignations.[15]
Captain Thammanat calmly accepted defeat and retreated to his hometown in the Northern province of Phayao. He did not stay on in Bangkok to support the proposed amendments to Thailand's 2017 Constitution. The parliament passed those amendments on 10 September,[16] despite rumours that General Prayut might mobilise his supporters in the Senate to block them in order to undercut the PPP as well as the opposition Phuea Thai Party.[17]
Captain Thammanat has not resigned from the PPP. General Prawit has asked him to stay on to assist in strengthen the party. He attended the PPP's leadership meeting on 15 September. Dr Narumon, who is the party's treasurer, also attended. General Prawit called the meeting to introduce the PPP's new chief strategist, General Wich Thephassadin, who is a retired former assistant Army chief; he was edged out for the top Army post by General Prayut in 2010.
For the time being, Captain Thammanat is keeping a low profile, and keeping his options open. He may set up his own party, or he could join the Phuea Thai Party.[18] He has been a successful political "fixer" in spite of his checkered past, including imprisonment for four years in Australia on a heroin smuggling conviction in the 1990s.[19]
VICTORIOUS BUT VULNERABLE
General Prayut's political victory may be short-lived, and the attempted revolt has clearly exposed his vulnerability. While saved by the decisive assurance from the palace, he has also been relying quite precariously on General Prawit and the PPP, over which he has no control.
Although General Prayut continues to praise General Prawit in public, their decades-long personal ties can only have been seriously strained by recent events. Given the plot, it is hard to believe that General Prawit was unaware of Captain Thammanat's scheming. In any case, he neither tried to stop Captain Thammanat nor alerted General Prayut.
Distrust may now have developed between these two retired generals and former Army chiefs. General Prayut – without consulting General Prawit – secretly recommended that the King command the dismissals of Captain Thammanat and Dr Narumon.[20]
This can only have offended General Prawit, who tried to protect Captain Thammanat by making him apologise to General Prayut on 3 September. On the same day, General Prawit also instructed PPP MPs to vote for General Prayut. But despite all the PPP's MPs voting for him on 4 September, General Prayut proved unwilling to forgive Captain Thammanat.
General Prayut can now assert his primacy instead of living in the shadow of General Prawit. But in distancing himself from the latter man, who held the post of defence minister for 12 years,[21] the prime minister will pay the huge price of losing the support of General Prawit's power base in the armed forces.
One indication that this is already happening is the delay in this year's annual promotion and reshuffling of top military posts. The Defence Council, which General Prayut chairs in his capacity as defence minister,[22] has been slow in preparing the final promotion lists. The lists were finally announced on 14 September. Bones of contention included nominees for the posts of Navy commander, Air Force commander, and permanent secretary of the Ministry of Defence. Normally, the annual promotion and reshuffling are announced in early September, with the retirement of military personnel reaching 60 years old taking place at the end of September, and new appointees taking office on 1 October each year.
THE "THREE Ps" IN DISARRAY
Generals Prayut, Prawit and Anupong (whose nickname is "Pok") are known as the "Three Ps" of the Eastern Tigers faction of the Thai Army.[23] The influence of this faction has been eroding since the rise of General Apirat Kongsompong to lead the Army in October 2018. General Apirat headed a new "Red Rim" faction[24] closely linked with the palace, and he was succeeded as Army chief in October 2020 by another prominent member of this "Red Rim" faction, General Narongpan Jitkaewtae. After leaving the Army, General Apirat was appointed both a deputy to the chamberlain of the Royal Household and deputy director of the Crown Property Bureau.
In a recent public opinion survey, slightly less than 40 per cent of those interviewed believe that the "Three Ps" would be able to set up a new government after the next general election.[25] This suggests that the political influence of the "Three Ps" is no longer as overwhelming as it had been for most of the period since the 2014 coup.
Another weakness that General Prayut has is the fact that he has no party of his own. This left him exposed in the no confidence debate and vote. Only 34 more votes against him would have ousted him from the premiership, with the minimum majority of 242 votes in the 482-member House. With General Prayut on shaky ground, there is every possibility that others in the troubled ruling coalition will attempt to overthrow him in yet another censure in the House next year.[26]
WHAT CAN GENERAL PRAYUT DO?
To ensure his political survival, General Prayut's first option is to adjust his leadership style and try to stay on until the end of his four-year term in March 2023. By then, the COVID-19 pandemic may have ended and the Thai economy has begun to recover. He would have by then also set a record of serving nine years in the premiership. Mission accomplished. Prayut can then proudly step down and leave national politics for good.
Meanwhile, General Prayut has promised to make time to listen to MPs. Undoubtedly, many government MPs will request him to reshuffle the cabinet sooner rather than later, and to re-allocate ministerial posts more equitably. In the current cabinet, PPP leader General Prawit does not head any significant ministry, whereas the Bhumjaithai Party's leader is Minister of Public Health, and the Democrats' leader is Minister of Commerce. Further, the PPP's group of 14 Southern MPs is demanding a cabinet post. Also waiting anxiously for their turn are the Thai Local Power Party, which has five MPs, and the seven micro-parties that firmly supported General Prayut in the censure vote.
General Prayut's second option is to become a full-fledged politician by setting up a party of his own, assuming that General Prawit stays put and tries to strengthen the PPP. General Prayut can team up with his other "elder brother", Interior Minister General Anupong, who was often seen alongside him during the crisis week in early September.
Both General Anupong and General Prayut share a common disdain for notionally unscrupulous politicians, and General Anupong in particular has avoided associating with MPs, for fear of being asked for favours. Captain Thammanat wanted for this reason to wrestle from General Anupong the interior minister's post, one that brings immense patronage and largesse for handing out to MPs.
Under this second option, General Prayut can avoid directly offending General Prawit, for whom he has professed deep respect as his "first boss" and "mentor". The question is whether he can acquire "ammunition" for his party's candidates to use in the next general election. And who will play the role of "fixer" and "monkey keeper" for him, now that Captain Thammanat, who used to play those roles in the PPP, is gone?
The third option will arise if General Prawit, who is now 76 and in poor health, calls it quits. General Prayut can then simply take over the PPP and, when ready, dissolve the House and lead the party into an early general election in 2022.
One exclusive advantage that General Prayut has over all other politicians is the existing strong support for him in the Senate. If he vies for the premiership again after the next general election, he can count on votes from most of the 250 senators, empowered under the Constitution to join MPs in selecting the prime minister until the end of their five-year term in May 2024.[27]
The days of the political domination of the "Three Ps" in Thai politics are now clearly numbered. General Prayut will now need to move fast and decisively to show better results, since the public feeling is that his promise of "returning happiness to Thailand" is long overdue.[28]
Before he passed away in May 2019, General Prem warned General Prayut that his "reserves are depleting". General Prayut's falling out with his "big brother" General Prawit will be a damaging blow to his premiership.
For this reason, General Prayut will need to strengthen his political power base, by either heading a party of his own or taking over the PPP. Without such a move, his premiership will continue to weaken, and he may not be able to survive the next censure vote in the House.
ISEAS Perspective 2021/127, 28 September 2021
[1] "ตามคาด 'ธรรมนัส' ผงาดนั่งเลขาฯ พลังประชารัฐ 'อนุชา' หลุดเก้าอี้" [As expected, 'Thammanat' rises to be the secretary-general of the Phalang Pracharat Party, 'Anucha' lost the seat], Matichon Online, 18 June 2021 (www.matichon.co.th/politics/news_2782626, accessed 9 September 2021). In the party leadership election held in Khon Kaen, the second largest province in the populous Northeast, General Prawit was re-elected unopposed as party leader. Captain Thammanat edged out a more senior rival, Deputy Finance Minister Santi, to become the new party secretary-general.
[2] "ผู้กองธรรมนัส 'ผงาด' เส้นเลือดใหญ่รัฐบาล" [Captain Thammanat soars: the main artery of the government], Than Setthakit Online, 18 June 2021 (www.thansettakit.com/politics/484532, accessed 11 September 2021). Captain Thammanat first compared himself to the "main artery" of the government in an interview with "The Nation Weekend Talk with Three Editors" television programme on 14 September 2019.
[3] Ibid. The party treasurer Dr Narumon and the party registrar Bounsing Warinrak, previously the chairman of the Phayao Provincial Administrative Organization, are close allies of Captain Thammanat, who is an MP from his home province of Phayao.
[4] "ดำรงค์ แฉ มีขบวนการ ล็อบบี้ โหวตไม่ไว้วางใจ ยันจุดยืนไม่รับกล้วย" [Damrong discloses there is a movement to lobby for no-confidence votes, but he affirms his stand against accepting any bananas], Krungthep Thurakit Online, 7 September 2021 [www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/958641, accessed 10 September 2021]. MP Damrong Pidej is leader of the Thai Forest Conservation Party, which has two MPs. He voted against the prime minister, but his colleague MP Yanyong Thanompichai-thamrong voted for the prime minister. "Banana" is Thai political slang for cash bribery. MPs from micro-parties in the ruling coalition have been compared to "monkeys". And Captain Thammanat did once identify himself as the "monkey keeper" in charge of finding "bananas" to feed these "monkeys" so that they would continue to support the Prayut premiership in the House.
[5] Also facing censure were Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Transport Minister Saksiam Chidchob, Agriculture Minister Chalermchai Sri-on, Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin, and Digital Economy Minister Chaivudh Thanakasmanusorn.
[6] All MPs as well as all senators are, according to Section 114 of the 2017 Constitution, "representatives of the Thai people and [they are] free from any mandate, commitment, or control. They shall perform duties honestly for the common interest of the Nation and the happiness of Thai people as a whole, without conflict of interest". However, during the censure debate, leaders of other government parties — notably Bhumjaithai (61 MPs), the Democrats (48 MPs), Chat Thai Pattana (12), the Action Coalition for Thailand (5 MPs), and Thai Local Power (5 MPs) — all pledged their support for General Prayut.
[7] In the March 2019 general election, the PPP nominated General Prayut for the premiership. If, after losing a no-confidence of the House, General Prayut called it quits, then the PPP together with its current coalition partners could have teamed up with a majority of senators to consider appointing an "outsider" — that is, someone not nominated for the premiership in the last general election — as the new prime minister. At least two-thirds of the combined memberships of the House (482 MPs) and the Senate (250 senators), or 488 votes, would be needed to install an "outsider" premier.
[8] The Interior Ministry's budget is second only to that of the Ministry of Education, but more than that of the Ministry of Defence budget. In the 2022 budget, the Interior Ministry will have 315 billion baht, while the Education Ministry will have 330 billion baht. The Finance Ministry will have 273 billion baht, and the Defence Ministry 199.9 billion baht. See details on the budget allocation at the website of the Senate Secretariat, www.senate.go.th/document/Lawdraft/Ext5/5129_0003.PDF (accessed 8 September 2021). The House passed the draft budget bill on 22 August with 257 votes for and 189 votes against the bill; the Senate unanimously endorsed the draft budget bill on 30 August. The Thai Government budget year starts every 1 October.
[9] In the current government General Prayut – who does not belong to any party – is concurrently the prime minister and the defence minister. His chosen men have been holding the following posts: deputy prime minister (for legal affairs), deputy prime minister (for economic affairs), deputy prime minister (for international affairs), minister of interior, minister of finance, minister of energy, minister of foreign affairs, and deputy minister of defence.
[10] "อ่านเต็มๆ 'บิ๊กตู่' เปิดใจร่ายยาว ไม่มีความคิดยุบสภาหรือปรับคณะรัฐมนตรี" [Read in full: 'Big Tu' opens his heart in a long talk, not thinking about dissolving the House or reshuffling the cabinet], Thai Post Online, 1 September 2021 (www.thaipost.net/main/detail/115256, accessed 11 September 2021). "Big Tu" is General Prayut's nickname.
[12] "'วิสาร' ปูด 'นายกฯ' แจกเงิน ส.ส. คนละ 5 ล้านกลางสภาฯ" ['Visarn' alleges that 'Prime Minister' hands out 5 million baht to each MP in the parliament building], Krungthep Thurakit Online, 2 September 2021 ( www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/957994, accessed 11 September 2021). Visarn Taychathirawat, a Phuea Thai Party MP from Chiang Rai Province, was on the House floor attacking General Prayut when he suddenly blurted out his accusation of the ongoing cash bribery in the reception room on the third floor of the parliament building, where General Prayut was receiving MPs from the PPP. Virakorn Kamprakob, a veteran PPP MP from Nakhon Sawan Province, stood up to clarify that he had just come down from the room in question after joining several other PPP MPs to call on General Prayut to show their support. But he denied there was any cash bribery involved, and demanded Visarn's retraction. The House Speaker has promised to investigate.
[13] The four government MPs who voted against General Prayut were Anwar Saleh (Democrat, Pattani), Peerawit Ruengluedollapak (Thai Raktham, party-list), Suratin Pijarn (New Democrat, party-list), and Damrong Pidej (Thai Forest Conservation, party-list).
[14] In the first censure vote on his premiership, General Prayut received 272 votes of confidence on 28 February 2020, the same number as Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wissanu Krea-ngarm, Interior Minister General Anupong Phaochinda, and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai. Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit received the highest votes of confidence, 277. And the lowest number of votes went to Captain Thammanat, 269. In the second censure vote, on 20 February 2021, General Prayut again received 272 votes of confidence, the same as General Anupong. Both General Prawit and Captain Thammanat received more votes, 274. The highest number of votes of confidence went to Anutin, 275. Labour Minister Suchart received the least number of votes of confidence on that occasion, 263.
[15] The royal command on their dismissals was published in the Royal Gazette on 8 September, with immediate effect. Captain Thammanat was too late when he told a press conference on 9 September that he was submitting his resignation, dated 8 September 2021. Deputy Prime Minister Dr Vissanu Krea-ngarm, the government's chief legal expert, confirmed that the two deputy ministers were dismissed. At first, Dr Narumon did not seem to be aware that she had been dismissed; she attended a meeting on labour skills development at Government House on the morning of 9 September. General Prawit, who chaired the meeting, was also apparently unaware of Dr Narumon's dismissal. During the meeting, the latter presented a report in her capacity as the deputy labour minister in charge of the Labour Ministry's Department of Skills Development.
[16] One of the proposed amendments seeks to increase the number of elected members of parliament from 350 to 400, and to reduce the number of party-list MPs from 150 to 100. The other proposed amendment seeks a return to the two-ballot voting system, in which each voter casts two ballots — one for a constituency MP and the other for a party. The votes that each party receives from all constituencies would go toward calculating the allocation of party-list seats. The two proposed amendments were passed with 472 votes (181 votes from government MPs and 142 votes from opposition MPs, the latter mostly from the Phuea Thai Party), and 149 votes from senators. The amendments will benefit large and well-funded parties capable of fielding candidates in all 400 constituencies.
[17] The proposed amendments came from the Democrat Party. The PPP and the Phuea Thai Party – the two largest winners in the 2019 general election – supported the proposals. Bhumjaithai, the second largest party in the ruling coalition, and Move Forward, the second largest opposition party, both opposed the proposed amendments; MPs from these two medium-sized parties mostly abstained in the vote at the final reading of the amendments on 10 September.
[18] Thammanat belonged to the Thai Rak Thai Party led by Thaksin Shinawatra in the early 2000s. He is known to have close ties to several key senior Phuea Thai figures. This led to speculation that he wanted the PPP to team up with the Phuea Thai Party to form a two-party ruling coalition government after the next general election, and to edge out General Prayut for good.
[19] "ธรรมนัส รอด ศาลรัฐธรรมนูญชี้ ไม่ขาดคุณสมบัติรัฐมนตรี" [Thammanat survives, the Constitutional Court rules that he does not lack qualifications to be a minister], Prachachat Online, 5 May 2021 (www.prachachat.net/politics/news-662489, accessed 12 September 2021). The Constitution Court on 5 May 2021 ruled that Captain Thammanat's drug-smuggling conviction in Australia had not disqualified him from holding public office in Thailand, because the conviction did not happen in a Thai court. Captain Thammanat would only admit that he was at the wrong place at the wrong time when police raided his hotel room in Sydney in 1993, where about 3.2 kilogrammes of heroin were seized. He served four years in prison and was released on 14 April 1997 and deported.
[20] "ให้ไปดู 'ม. 171' นายกฯ ปัดตอบปลด ร.อ. ธรรมนัส – นฤมล พ้นตำแหน่ง รมต." [Go read "Section 171", Prime Minister brushes aside questions about dismissing Captain Thammanat and Narumon from their ministerial posts], Khom Chat Luek Online, 10 September 2021 (www.komchadluek.net/news/482997, accessed 10 September 2021). Section 171 of the 2017 Constitution stipulates that "The King has the Royal Prerogative to remove a Minister from his or her office upon the advice of the Prime Minister."
[21] General Prawit was the defence minister in the Abhisit administration, December 2008-August 2011, and during the Prayut-led military regime in power after the 2014 coup, August 2014-July 2019.
[22] General Prayut chairs the Defence Council in his capacity as defence minister. Other members of the council are Deputy Defence Minister General Chaicharn Changmongkol, Defence Ministry Permanent Secretary General Nat Incharoen, Army Commander General Narongpan Jitkaewthae, Navy Commander Admiral Chatchai Sriworakan, and Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal Airbull Sutthipan. General Prayut replaced General Prawit as defence minister and as supervisor of the national police force at the start of his premiership at the head of an elected government in July 2019.
[23] General Prawit was Army chief in 2004-2005, General Anupong in 2007-2010, and General Prayut in 2010-2014.
[24] Senior military and police officers belonging to this "Red Rim" clique often wear a white t-shirt with a red-rimmed neck underneath their uniforms, and keep a short crew cut.
[25] "ความเป็นไปได้ทางการเมืองของ 3 ป." [Political possibilities of the "Three Ps"] Thai Post Online, 12 September 2021 (www.thaipost.net/main/detail/116406, accessed 12 September 2021) The survey was conducted by the NIDA Poll service of the National Institute for Development Administration (NIDA), in 6-9 September 2021.
[26] Prime Minister General Kriangsak Chomanan resigned during a censure on 28 February 1980 to avoid imminent defeat, after ruling without any political party of his own for two years. His successor, General Prem Tinsulanonda, lasted much longer, eight and half years, largely because of strong support from the palace and the military. General Prem relinquished the premiership in order to avoid the threat of censure following the general election in July 1988, and he was soon appointed to the Privy Council by King Bhumibol.
[27] In the process of selecting the prime minister on 5 June 2019, 249 senators voted for General Prayut, the PPP's nominee for the premiership. Only one senator, Senate President Dr Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, abstained. General Prayut won the premiership with 500 votes, 251 votes from government MPs in 19 parties and 249 votes from senators. His rival from the opposition, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, received only 244 votes, all from MPs belonging to seven opposition parties. The number of parties in the ruling coalition has dropped to 17 after the Thai Civilised Party of MP Mongkolkit Suksin-tharanon left the coalition to join the opposition, and the People's Reform Party closed down and its leader MP Paiboon Nititawan became a deputy leader of the PPP.
[28] Soon after staging the coup on 22 May 2014, General Prayut promised to "return happiness to Thailand". He even composed a song "คืนความสุขให้ประเทศไทย" [Returning happiness to Thailand], available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT6qWjrCYhI.
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Francis Grose
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Published 1783 by Printed for S. Hooper in London .
England -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.,
Wales -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.
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This is the story of the day I had my planned cesarean with my second daughter Baby Bear. There's a part one to read with how we got to this point if you fancy catching up.
I spent the night in hospital and I knew it would be the last night before I had my newborn in my arms. J had gone home to our first Baby Girl and I was in a hospital bed updating my family and friends on WhatsApp and FaceTime about what was going to happen the next day.
I knew I should sleep but my mind was in overdrive so it took a long time before I drifted off and even then I kept waking. It was a particularly windy evening and the swooshing of the wind from outside mixed with the sounds of a labouring woman desperate to be dilated enough the be sent to the delivery room did not make for a peaceful sleeping environment. It was actually really creepy.
One of the midwives woke me at 6am for observations and to give me a special tablet that would reduce my stomach acid. I wasn't allowed to eat and I was only allowed to have a small sip of water to get that tablet down. She left me with a hospital gown and a pair of tight socks to put on when I was ready. I had to be ready for surgery as early as 10am and J was coming in at 9am after he dropped Baby Girl to nursery.
I needed to bank as much sleep as I could, but the anticipation was too much and was a mixture of excitement and absolute terror. The feeling of going into a planed cesarean rather than an emergency one as I first had is very very different. My mind couldn't stop to think about anything other than wanting my baby to be safe and to get her out as quickly as possible with the emergency one, but with this (somewhat) planned one, I have to be honest.... my thoughts were intense. How long will it take? Would the room be cold? What will the spinal be like? What if I couldn't sit still while they were injecting a mammoth needle into my spine and it paralysed me? What if I bled? What if I died? (morbid, but when you're going through major surgery and your thoughts consume you it happens). What is the recovery going to be like? What if I couldn't care for both of my children? How will I change nappies? Is she ready to come out? etc etc etc.... no wonder I couldn't sleep!
So from 6am - 9am I lay awake consumed by my own thoughts until J arrived. It felt like it was getting real then. I put my gown and socks on and I was surprised to see the consultant that had examined me and made the decision that the surgery should happen that day arrive at my bedside. She told me that she would be performing the surgery and assured me that she'd had sleep over night - to this day I still can't figure that one out! But I felt quite reassured that she would be my surgeon that day as I had a good feeling about her. She had done a thorough scan of me the day before and had taken notes on exactly what my insides were measuring like. She told me there was one other planned section before mine and to expect to come up to the operating theatre in about an hour.
J begged me to sleep so I could get as much rest as possible but I just couldn't. We seem to have these moments that happen in hospitals around the birth of our children that are just peaceful and reflective and I feel totally as one with him. After the surgeon left we had one of them. One minute we were talking and the next minute, it was 11.30am and we had the caesarian midwife gently tap my shoulder and let me know it was time for my surgery. Somehow we had both fallen asleep, and when I woke I actually felt well rested, at peace and ready for this surgery.
It was strange packing up our things, walking into the surgical room and being greeted by a room full of smiley people introducing themselves and what part they would play. All my details went up on a white board and everything was very calculated. J put on his scrubs and this time managed to get a selfie of himself in them as he was disappointed he didn't get one last time.
I propped myself up on the bed and the anaesthetist prepped me for the spinal. My pre thoughts were a lot worse than the reality and very quickly I was lying down and couldn't move my body or feel below my neck. Such a strange sensation. I don't remember them announcing they were going to start, but I think I asked and they concurred that they had. J had strict instructions to stay by my head and with the huge screen as a barrier he couldn't see anything.
The time it took to get my princess out this time felt longer than last time - it must have been about 30 minutes, but when they mentioned I would feel a bit of pressure soon and that I did I knew she was coming. Before they even told me she was out I heard her crying.
It was 1.05pm on the 29th January 2018 and she sure did make herself known from the very minute she took her first breath in this world.
She cried that perfect little newborn wail and I felt immediate relief. They held her up above the screen and showed her to me like a scene from the Lion King at baby Simba's introduction. They lay her next to me for a short time so I could give her a cuddle and wish her a Happy Birthday and then took her off to get cleaned up and dressed.
J went across the room to go and see our baby and I watched from afar as they did all the checks on her. She weighed in at 9 pounds and was a healthy baby. Such relief! Once she was dressed the nurse brought her over to me for more cuddles and she just relaxed her body into me and fell asleep, just like my first born I felt an instant bond. She was here and she was safe and now we're a family of four!
It was around this time that I noticed there was a lot of chat amongst everyone that I couldn't understand and I felt as though something may be wrong. I asked if everything was ok and the anaesthetist told me that everything was but things were taking a bit longer to put back together because upon cutting me open they realised I had lots of scar tissue from my previous cesarean and that my uterus had attached to my stomach so they had to be really careful.
Careful they were, but the surgery took such a long time. Nearly two hours in total from start to finish. I started to feel a little strange and couldn't hold my baby anymore so she stayed in J's arms for the rest of the surgery where I could see her right next to me.
I went from feeling ok, to feeling like I was going to pass out, then feeling like I may be sick. I even felt sharp pains in my heart at one point and the anaesthetist explained it wasn't my heart but a reaction of something they were doing around my uterus which I found very strange. Every time I felt something I mentioned it to the anaesthetist and like magic she would top up the drip with something and I would feel normal again. I also started to feel more and more internal pressure and although I still couldn't feel pain it was getting very uncomfortable. So much so that I needed gas and air to get though the last of it.
Over an hour after my Baby Bear was born, I finally heard the ping of the staple gun (cringed as that was the one thing I wanted to avoid), and the team told me they were done. The surgeon came over and explained exactly what she had done and what the care plan would be following my operation. She was also really honest with me and told me I would need to be careful with any future pregnancy and be aware of further issues with scar tissue. In that moment it kind of all went over my head. I was so very grateful to the team for successfully delivering my baby but I also wanted to get out of that operating room and into recovery where I could cover my newest princess in kisses and cuddles and feed her for the first time.
Being in recovery gave me plenty of time to bond with Baby Bear and it was wonderful but I also couldn't wait to get out of there in time for visiting hours so my biggest princess could meet my littlest. That happened about 6 hours later. Thanks to my sister in law I have a video of the moment that the two of them met and I will cherish it forever.
In that moment I was totally and utterly complete. I was, I am, a Mummy of two precious little girls and that makes me feel on top of the world.
The complicated delivery, came with a complicated recovery. It's not easy trying to look after two children when you can't even laugh or pull yourself out of bed but luckily I had loads of support. Then comes the baby blues and by day 6 I was convinced I was going to die from an infection - but I didn't and I am here to tell this story.
It's now nearly 6 months on and I'm doing great. Baby Bear is doing great, her big sister has been even more brilliant than I could have ever imagined and their bond is unreal. And as for me and hubby? We just have to pinch ourselves sometimes when we look at the two humans that we created.
It sounds like a tough birth journey. Glad everything was okay in the end and that you had goo support.
Sounds like you went through a hard time. It has brought back memories of having my children. It feels amazing after everything, when you have your new baby in your arms :) Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Wow you went through the mill. It's good that the surgeon explained everything and listened to you at each step when you said something felt wrong.
I had an elective C section second time around and it was the most bizarre experience knowing exactly when and where baby would be born but it was much more positive than my first time.
This is so wonderful that you share your experience here, your newborn looks so so sweet.


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