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Get into a group of parents and ask for their birth stories and you will be inundated with a wide variety of stories. While most parents will admit that at the time what happened wasn’t at all funny, after the fact the events have taken on a funny and humorous aspect.
Here are a couple of our favorite funny birth stories:
- When I went in for my C-section, there was another lady having one at the same time and our respective husbands were directed to the wrong place. I was quite surprised to see a strange man reaching out to hold my hand- and once he realized I wasn't his wife, he was pretty shocked too! But we got it figured out in time for our own husbands to be there.
- The night my second child was born my wife and I had decided to go to a friends house. Well we weren’t expecting her to go into labor so me and the guys decided to drink a li'l bit. Well needless to say she went into labor but none of us could drive so we called everyone we knew it was really funny well at least now it is. To top it off I wasn’t thinking and started watching Baywatch on the hospital television. Then the paperwork came to sign I was so nervous I signed my name wrong on the birth certificate.
- The fact that the doctor could not find the hospital. Not funny at the time but looking back it is one of those laugh-out-loud funny things we now tell friends.
- At the time this was not funny at all, but looking back there is a bit of humor to be found. January 17, 1977 to record was the coldest day in the past 100 years and that is the day my daughter decided to be born. It had snowed a day or so before and we made sure our driveway was clean and both the car and truck were ready to go. When that fateful night arrived, being this was our third and last child, we thought we were prepared. We got into the car and started down the road, only getting a few yards when we realized we had a flat tire. We just turned around and parked the car. We got in the truck and tried to start down the road! The truck would not move we were just spinning wheels. My husband got out and found that the back wheel was in a mud hole caused by the melting snow. So he asked me to get behind the wheel and try the truck while he pushed. Our neighbor saw all this and came over to help. They were both pushing the truck and I was revving it up and trying to get it out of the hole between labor pains! Well we finally got out, but not before my poor husband was sprayed head to toe with mud! He changed his clothes while I waited, now impatiently, in the truck. We finally got to the hospital and my daughter was born within 1/2 hour!
- The birth of my daughter was quite an event for me, to say the least. She was breech and my OB was successful in turning her by manipulating her from outside of my stomach. The next morning, when I awoke, I could tell that she had turned herself back around - her head was in the same spot as it was before she had been turned. I called my OB, he didn't believe that she could have turned back around and had me come to his office......... where he found that she had turned back around. He asked if I wanted to try to have her turned again or schedule a c-section; I opted to have him try to turn her again. He made the hospital arrangements for me to go in in a few days so that we could try again. A few days later I showed up at the hospital and we tried everything we could to get my daughter in the proper position to be born. Nothing worked. He asked if I wanted to go ahead and do the c-section NOW, since I was already admitted and hooked up to the IV's. Figured I might as well........ My husband was in the operating room with us, holding my hand and quite interested getting a good look at what the doctor was doing; so much so that I had to keep yanking back up towards me - I was scared to pieces and wanted him closer! The doctor asked my husband how he was doing; did he need a chair to sit down, did he feel ok - wasn't going to pass out was he? My hubby replied that he was fine and cracked that it really wasn't much different than gutting a deer; he could probably handle the next one! Oh my God! I couldn't believe he said that! Needless to say, he had everybody laughing....... everybody but me. I can laugh about it now, but then......nope.
- This is actually the story of my birth as told by my mom. My mother was placed in what she describes as a "labor holding room" with other women in labor. This was her first pregnancy, and her labor had started only a few hours back, so there was no indication birth was imminent. Following a rather strong labor pain, she experienced an odd sensation "down there." Reaching down under her gown to investigate, she felt "something unusual." She summoned a nurse who discovered that the "something unusual" was a foot! She says that "things then started happening very quickly" with a flurry of people whisking her into the birthing room. She was quickly "put under" - keep in mind this was in the mid 1960's when general anesthesia was more common than epidural anesthesia. She remembers waking up (still in the relative mental fog of the anesthesia), and her first words to the nurses were not "How's my baby?" or "Is it a boy or girl?" or even "When can I hold my child?", but rather her first words were "Is that damn thing still sticking out of me!?"
Maybe we should have titled these birth stories “Is That Thing Still Sticking Out of Me.” Maybe not, but any woman who has given birth is sure to nod her head fully understanding exactly where that new mother was coming from.
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