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One of the funniest giving birth stories I have ever read has to be this one. From a pre-birth sex change, to a peanut butter and jelly chow down, to wise-cracks in the delivery room this young mother kept her head in the face of fears for her pre-mature baby. For me, giving birth to my first child was very exciting, even if it was a little scary and confusing. I began to leak amniotic fluid 7 weeks before the baby was born, not a good thing. Then the daughter that I was supposed to give birth to showed itself to clearly be male during the sonogram, much to the surprise of the doctor!
The doctor told me that if I went into labor or got a fever that we were going to be having a baby, he didn't want this to be a 'dry birth'. The next week I awoke very early in the morning, around 5:50 a.m., with terrible pains, mostly in my back, with contractions. I was in full-blown labor! I went upstairs to wake up my mother (I was separated from my husband, not yet divorced). She got dressed and found me in the kitchen, eating a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, washing it down with a glass of chocolate milk. She couldn't believe I was actually eating when we needed to rush to the hospital, but I told her that I was going to eat first, because I know that they won't let me once I got there! I was nervous, but I was also hungry and knew that I'd need to have some carbs & protein for the work I was going to have to do! After I ate my snack, we went to the hospital, was admitted immediately (I'd called my doctor earlier). The pain was intense, yet somehow oddly bearable. I did get an epidural shortly after arrival because I was already dilated enough. The scariest part of giving birth was that my son was in fetal distress; with every contraction his heart rate would drop dangerously low and the doctor said that the cord was probably wrapped around his neck and that if things got any worse that a c-section may be in order. I'd also been forewarned that it is usual for pre-term babies to be quiet when they were born; to not expect a screaming baby when he came out. This is usually because the lungs aren't finished forming; so it would also be likely that he'd have breathing problems. There were so many people in the room, as is the norm with a high-risk birth. I remember wise-cracking that if I'd known there'd be so many people present to witness me giving birth that I would have charged admission beforehand! Once the baby started to come, the doctor made a generous episiotomy incision so that the baby could come out more quickly. It worked! The cord was wrapped around his neck and my son was so tiny and ........... wailing at the top of his lungs! His lungs were fine! The doctor explained that the lungs finish forming when the water breaks and since my water had been leaking for a week that the lungs were ready for the baby's birth! O! Glorious day! All I could think of was that the archangel Gabriel was blowing his horn in jubilation and so was my son with his loud cries. It seemed only fitting that my son be given the name “Gabriel”, and so it was. After a giving birth story like that, you either smile smugly and say, “my story is much worse than that!” or you grimace and vow to never get in a position to have to face such a traumatic experience. Either way, the story has worked its magic…again! We have more stories about giving birth that any mother will be able to identify with.. Did you remember the Baby Shower Invitations? |
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