Labor & Birth Stories
Read real birth stories featuring hospital births, water births, cesarean births, complicated births, and home births! Please note some birth stories are graphic! Read what other moms have to say about giving birth. On 11/17/04, when I was exactly 38 weeks pregnant is when it all started. I was sitting at the computer desk, holding Nesyah (my-baby-who-is-not-so-much-a-baby-anymore) in my lap. She made me laugh, and just then I felt a gush!
Continue Reading Baby Josiah's Birth Story On Sunday (the 12th) I tossed and turned all night trying to get comfortable. I was having contractions a lot, but I had been for a couple weeks, so nothing new. I had lost mucus plug for the past few days, so I hoped it would be soon. By 4am Monday (June 13th) I realized I was waking up every few minutes with contractions that hurt very low. I decided to get up and try to find that contraction timer software online.
Continue Reading Aja's Birth Story: A Home Birth Tuesday the 29th of July was spent walking all around the National Museum of Naval Aviation here in Pensacola, in hopes of getting things going. I had been having prodromal labor for 3 weeks now, and was 4 cm and 50% effaced for about a week, and I just had this feeling that if we were to walk and not stop, things would get going!
Continue Reading Alia's Hospital Birth At 8:10, they started the Pitocin, and by 8:20 the nurse said the contractions were about 2 to 5 minutes apart. At this point my OB came in and broke my water. It was only as uncomfortable as a pap smear and I was fascinated by the amount of liquid and how hot it was. At 8:30 they upped the Pitocin. So far things were going smoothly and I was looking forward to the long day's work. At least I hoped it would only be a day!
Continue Reading Fallon's Birth & Breastfeeding Story After nine months of waiting and years of thinking this miracle wouldn’t be possible, I felt like a reverse Cinderella. My fairytale began when the clock struck midnight. It was finally my birthday June 23, 2005, and my water had finally broken. As any pregnant woman will tell you by the time you reach the end of your pregnancy, you are READY to give birth. I relaxed expecting a long labor since this was my first child.
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