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I didnt know

One night, at midnight, i woke up with a stomach pain. i went into the bathroom and noticed a brownish, gooey, blood like substance on my pants and figured i was starting my period so i tried to go back to bed. No such luck. 8 o'clok rolls around and i get up to go to work. Throughout the whole day my stomach ache gets worse and worse. After my 8 hours, painful, shift ends, i leave and go to my boyfriends house for dinner. The pain got so bad that i was rolling around on his bed screaming. His mom was really scared and though it might be my appendix and wanted to take me to the hospital. Thats when it happend, my water broke. i had no idea what it was, being only 16 and knowing nothing about pregnancy or babies, and decided to go since obviously something was wrong. when i got to the hospital they hooked me up to the machine and the doctor turns to me and says, "well, your stomach ache has a heart beat." within about an hour i was in the labor room giving birth to my son, WITHOUT any medication.

It may be hard to belive, especially if you have ever had a baby, but i really didnt know. I only gained about 10 LBS the whole time, i NEVER felt him kick, and i didnt show. No one knew that i was pregnent, and neither did i. i had absolutlely no syptoms. Every month i was having a very light period which i found out is actually very common.i was so scared giving birth because i didnt know how far along i was. After he was born they said i was full term, and possibly even over
I kept the baby, and he is now 7 months old. He is the happiest baby i have ever seen. At 6 weeks old he was sleeping 6 hours at night. Now he sleeps about 11 hours straight through the night. He is a miracle, it has been hard being a 16 year old mother but i am doing it. i am pround of myself for staying in school, working, and taking care of my son. i love him so much he is a blessing.

Kelsey

birth of my daughter

i felt my first contractions at just gone two in the morning.i was in so much pain and they were 15 minutes apart so went up to the hospital,they checked me over and sent me home.within half an hour,they were every 3 minutes and rang my midwife,she told me to get to the hospital.i grabbed my hospital bag and car seat and went to the door,still talking to the midwife,i felt the sudden urge to push.i started screaming and couldnt move,so we rang for an ambalance and my midwife said she was on her way to my house.i got took to my sofa and lent over it so i was on my knees.my contractions was alot stronger and closer.within 20 minutes the ambulance and my midwife were by my side.my midwife examined me and said the baby was guna come so i started pushing,within 10 minutes my daughter was born.so within an hour my daughter was born.she hd trouble breathing to start with and if it were for the ambulance crew and my midwife,we had been told she wouldnt make it,so thanks to them shes here.shes now 2 and im pregnant again.lucky for me i have the same midwife so i know im in good hands.thanks mary and the albulance crew.

gem

A Miracle

I was 14 when me and My high school sweetheart had sex.We used protection so we wouldn't risk the chances of getting pregnant.So We Had Sex then About 2 and a half months later I found out I was pregnant when I kept having morning sicknesses.I didn't know I to tell my mom why I was gaining so much weight but I had to.I kept my pregnancy to myself for another month because when I got to my 3rd month it was showing.I texted my boyfriend and told him that I was pregnant.It took him a while to text back.When He did he said to meet him somewhere so I met him at our spot.At first I thought about not having the baby because he wanted to rap so I figured I would be messing things up but after talking to my girls I knew I could do it on my own if he wasn't down with it.So we met up talked about I sheded a couple of tears and he held me.He told me that no matter what he would stand by decision of whatever it was as long as it wasn't killing his child.So after 2months I had told my mother and she was very devastated.I didn't get to tell my dad because he wasn't in my life when I was young and after having my child I was determined to make something of myself to show him that him and my mother fucking wasn't for nothing.So I saw my dad around the 7th month of my pregnancy and told him alot of stuff that without him I could do bad all by myself.So with my mom and boyfriend by my side i was good.And My Girls my big supporters.After I had my daughter a few years after she turned 3 her father became big in the singing rapping industry and now we're happy.My daughter is 10 going on 11 now.I'm still with my man but we have problems sometimes but the love we have is inseparable

Star

Premature Birth

My pregnancy was fantastic. I didn't felt sick, I was putting on the right weight, I was blooming. Each scans showed that my little boy was doing amazing.
Then at 3 am I woke up and wanted to pee. Going back to bed, for some reason I couldn't fall back asleep. Then I started to feel some cramps around my belly. I waited it pass and started to beleive it was just baxton hicks contractions. But the pain comae back and grew more intense each time. By 7 am I tried to eat a toast and drink some water....I threw up everything. I was in a lot of pain and I started to bleed ( not much only few drops). I called my husband and we went to the ER. I was examined and the midwife told me that I was 2.5 cm dialated. I couldn't beleive and cried! I was only 34 weeks prengnant! I was so scared. I kept saying: "It's too early! It's too early". But the baby was coming and we were told he might not breath and he will have to be placed in an incubator. At 5 pm I gave birth to Tristan. I cried straight away and was breathing on his own. He mad us proud. He was perfect and was weighting 4 pounds and 6 ounces. We only spent 1 minute with him before he was rushed to the Special Care. Since Tristan is doing great and he is two and half now and you will never beleive he was premature. Now my husband and I are trying for our Second Baby. And I am a little worried to give birth prematurely again, or even to give birth before 34 weeks. The only thing I was glad I did during my pregnancy is to have eating heatlhy, and looked after myself the best I could.

Sandy

Sandy

All worth it in the end...

I got pregnant at 16 and had my daughter at 17! I was due Sep 30th 2006. I had gone down to my parents house for the night on Sep 23rd, well in the car ride there I felt kind of wierd and antsy but didn't think too much of it... Just thought of it as an upset stomach... So we get there and it was already late so headed straight to bed. For some strange reason I had tossed and turned all night, not knowing why well to my surprise that was the easy small little beginning labour pains, I then awoke for good at 5:00 am on Sep 24th and felt pains in my lower back, so I went to the bathroom and my pee felt honestly so ackward(dont ask me why haha!) so I went outside for some fresh air and finally I relized Yes I am in labour so it was now 7:00 am and I went and knocked on my parents bedroom door and my mom opened and I said "Mom I'm in labour" so she got up and came out and then we started timing the contractions and at this time they were all over the place raning from 3 min apart to like 10 min apart so they definately werent concistent... So the day went on continuing to time them they were getting more consistent as it went along, so I called my baby daddy and he came along..., he then had to go and do something so my parents and i headed up to where I lived and went to my sisters house... At this I think the contractions were about 5 min apart and then for some reason we just kind of stopped timing them a little bit because all I kept doing was going to the bathroom feeling like I had to pee and poop...Nothing was coming out... ALOT of PRESSURE of rectum area for sure... So my sister out and says well why dont we just go over to the hospital just so they could see how many cm I was actually dialated... we got to the hospuital at 5:30 p.m, the baby daddy showed up at the hospital shortly after but by the time that we left my sisters and walked into the hospital the pain got more intense and the people at the desk made me stand there and fill out papers and what not and finally put me in a room and hooked me up to the monitors to check the baby... Well at this point I was getting really antsy and just felt like I was going to puke... Out of all the times I said I thought I was going to puke I was never once given anything to puke in although out of everything I didn't ever actually puke so anyways then the nurse came in and seen how annoyed i was getting with the pain so she checked me, well get this lasted all day at home and get to the hospital and I am 8cm dialated... Everyone looked so shocked as in how GREAT I was dealing with the contractions all day... I wasn't showing all that much pain, so the nurse said definately time to get you in the delivery room would you like me to wheel you down or would you like to walk down so being 8 cm and everyone always told me that walking around pregresses things so I decided to walk well when I got there I kept going to the bathroom still the nurse asked me what was wrong adn I said all i feel like is I have to poop so she said lay down and well check you again well I was 9cm so she didn't let me get up off the bed no more haha... The doctor came in and broke my water and it was all with in min the pushing came... I may have had a not so painful contractions but oh boy was that pushing out stuff rough and painful I remember going to take that first push and instantly stopping I was like owww that burns and now thinking of it makes me giggle so cotinued and I was only able to get 2 pushes in and they were trying for 3 but the nurse lookes over at the monitor and says to me that the babys heart rate is dropping and i needed to get the 3rd push in so not even thinking about the pain anymore I just started pushing and oh my goodness I have never screamed so much in my life... Turns out I get cut a couple of times and the forceps were needed as well but my baby girl weighing 7lbs 10oz was here... 13 hours of labour was nothing and the owwy pushing and delivery was all worth it in the end... did feel a little of the ouchy for the stitces as well... Since then I have had my son weighing 5lb 11 oz, delivery so much easir for him like wow... and now just found out pregnant with the 3rd...

Stephanie