Labor and Birth

Giving birth is the most momentous part of pregnancy, and involves a lot of hard work, energy, and emotion. Whether you opted for natural childbirth or an epidural, tell us how your pregnancy progressed. Did you give birth at home or in hospital? Was it complication-free or was baby a little more stubborn? And, of course, how does it feel to have a new addition to your family? Help other women prepare for their birthing experience by telling us your story

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happy family


i was 14 when i fell pregnant, my boyfriend matty and i were together since middle school and we are happy together with gorgeous twins vanessa and suri leigh, it was a shock to find out that i was pregnant so young but i was so inlove with matty i didnt care. i had a crush on matty for a long time and i was so excited when he asked me out a month later we had sex and the condom broke i was shocked as i knew i would get pregnant as my best friend amy had got pregnant the sam way and hadnt taken the morning after pill, i took the morning after pill but i forgot to take one i was really scared, matty asked me what as wrong and i told him he cam with me to the family planning clinic and i took a pregnancy test i was in shock to find out it was apositive but i was happy i had always wanted to have a baby matty was very very happy, telling my adoptive parents was really scary but they were really happy for me and so was my best friend the twins were born a month early i was sat at matty's house watching .v when my waters broke it was horibble matty's mum rushed me to hospital and i was in labour for 9 hours matty stayed with me the whole time when the time came for me to give birth i was so scared mtty had held my hand the whole time so im grateful to him now i have two gorgeous little girls who are now two years old and im 16 and my family are being really supportive looking fater the girls when matty and i are at school.

i would like to wish all you mothers who are expecting a baby congratulations and i hope all goes well.

hayley

hayley






labour


i had a baby girl in april 2007.i went threw 20 hours labour only to be rushed in for c,section.my babys heart stopped twice then the labour came to a full stop.after the c,section everything was fine .doctor said my wound was healin fine so i was leftt home 4days later.i then got a nasty infection.didnt recover for weeks.im now 6 weeks preg and am afraid of my life it happenes again our something happenes the baby.could i give birth natrauly our at home,where its clean our do i have to go threw all that again.some one please fill me in im so worried...

lorraine






heyden's birth

Well I have to say that my heyden's birth is something I will never forget.

It was the middle of the night and I was wide awake dealing with contractions they were 20 min apart so I wasn't worried. Anyway tristain (hubby) had woken up because of all the movement. Also at the time we were living with his parents and his father was a gynocoligist so he wanted to deliver the baby which was so awkward but oh well.

Anyway we lay there for w while timing even though it was pointless but tristain was worried so we did. It got to a point where I couldn't sit still and I needed to pee so I got tris to help me and we moved to the bathroom. Suddenly I got this huge pain it almost knocked me over luckily tris was holding me then straight after my waters broke. I reckon I almost colapsed in shock as this was my first child. I started crying so tris helped me clean myself up before running to get his father. His father did an exam and revealed that I was 4 cm he then told me that I should try get some sleep.

At the time this seemed like an impossible feat so we lay there while tris rubbed my tummy finally he realised that this was getting to hard to deal with and asked me what I wanted to do so we ended up walking around the bedroom about 2 hours later I colapsed on the floor I had no strength left in me by that time tris was freaking out and I was in tears we then lay togeather on the floor for an hour till tris father came in to check on me he told me that when I felt like I should push to do so. We decided to go downstairs where all the equipment was and get ready for the birth they had already set up one of those beds with stirups I think that's what they call them so tris helped me up and she sat bekind me with pillows and a hot pack on my lower back it felt so nice with him there holding me verry comforting anyway the contractions got so bad and soon came time to push tris held my tummy with one hand and held my hand with the other and I started to push it hurt so badly but it didn't work so we moved to a squating position tris got down on one knee and I sat on his leg this worked so much better and in a few big pushes our beautifull baby boy graced us with his presence

emma






Mommy At 16

Hello,
My name is Kristian I am 17 years old.
I got pregnant at 16 and had my son at 16.
Here is my delivery story...


My son was due sep 14, 20008... On Sep 12th I went to go take a nap as I was not feeling well, I had been asleep for 3 hours when my mom came ti wake me up to see if I was feeling better, I got up to go to the bathroom I was bleeding so my mom took me to the hospital they checked me and I was still 1cm dialated like I was for 2 weeks... They told me to go home eat something and take a warm bath so I went home and got in the bath.
As I got out of the bath I noticed something dripping down, I thought I peed myself I started calling my mom to come here, she came into the bathroom and scremed your water just broke. Right when she said that I broke down in tears as I was getting dressed.
I got dressed then called my son's father to let him know my water broke and I was on my way to the hospital.
I got in the truck as we drove to the hospital all I could think about was pushing my son out and how much it would hurt, I got to the hospital stepped out of the truck and I felt a gush my water broke the rest of the way I breoke down in tears again my mom got a wheel chair and took me to labor and delivery floor, when I got in there the lady said "back so soon" my mom said "her water broke"
They took me in a room and checked to make sure it was my water for sure my water broke. They checked me again and I was 3cm dialated.
They told me to get some sleep and that if I did not progress by 6am I would get petocin, So at 5 am I still had not progressed allot I was 8cm dialated, so they gave me petocin.

They had to keep upping the dose, after about 3 hours *8am* they checked me again and I had only dialated to 9cm, I was having horrible contractions so they asked if I would like pain meds, I told them I was not ready for them yet but when I was that I wanted an epidural.
At about 10am they gave me the epidural I felt so good, I fell back asleep and work up because I hear them saying m son's heart beat was faiding away, They gave me oxygen and had me move on my side to see if it would bring up his heart beat and mine, It didn't so they said I would be having an emergency C- section.
As heard as they said that the room got really hot i didnt know what to do, they put two fans on me and about 10 minutes later took me into the c- section room, when I got in there I got really cold and was shaking they had to tie my hands down so that I was not moving.
My mom was sitting next to me telling me everything was okay and that I would have my baby boy soon, Then the doctor said you will feel allot of pressure when we pull him out all of a sudden I heard a cry it was my baby!! they cleaned him up and handed him to my mom to show me, I couldn't cry I kissed him and said "mommy loves you baby'
My baby boy was born at 1:22pm he weighed 7lbs 9oz 21inches

my mom left the room with my son as they stapled me up and got me cleaned up after they took me to a recovery room, everyone came in to see me I was shaking bad which scared my son's father.
About an hour later I was able to go to my room, before I got there though they took me by the nursery to see my son, I started crying he had so much hair and at that moment I just wanted to lay there all day with my son.

they took me to my room and later on brought my son to me,.

My son is not almost 4 months old, and even though things get hard at times I would not change it for the world my son is my heart and means the world to me!


Christopher Ryan - My son
Kristian- Me

Kristian






y am i leavin u (but still a happy ending)

when i was first wif my bby's father he already did have a girlfriend and i knew she loves him alot so i decided to just leave him. i soon found out i was pregnant but i didnt wannna tell him it was his i only told my best friend i was only 14 and i told my parents they was mad and sad for me at the same time they threthan to kick me out but they didnt i didnt tell them who the father is.. months pass and finally when i was 7th months pregnant saw him again holdin hands wif is girlfriend for pass month everybodys been tellin me thta he still loves me and wants me back and he didnt like his girl but he doesnt wanna hhurt his feelins.they was walkin down the block i wanted to turn around and walk the other way but than i didnt wanna hide anything they saw my stomac she gave me a hug and ask how many months was i and who was the father i didnt say anything i just told them i was 7 months and a few days after that i was wif my bff at the feild of smith he came over and my friend walk away wif her bf we was alone he said he wanted to talk he ask me y i left him and that he loved me and wanted me bac and that he can dump old girl i told him thats not want i want his girl will do anything for him and she loved u very much he said so u loved me very much too i said LOVED not anymore he knew i was lyin he just grab me and kiss me i try to push away at first but than i knew i still love him so i just left it but after a min i knew it was rpong so i just push him away and walk away but by the time i walked 5 step my stomac started to hurt i have these pain all over my body my bff ran over to me and he was right next to me i felt something wet in my jeans omg ur water broke my friend said i got scared they called the ablamce but than they was takin a long time so than he pick me up and run to the hospital all the aoin just turn out to be ntn wif him here watchin him sweat and lookin at him i knew i still love him when we got to the hospital they cheak me outt and said i was ready to give birth the doctor said i need an emaegy c-sectioncuz i was in short labor and im 2 months earlyy they ask if naybody wanted to be in there wif me my bff was scared cuz she doesnt like blood so he said i wanna come we was in there for half an hour they gave me a few shots and they started cuttin i felt a lil pain it hurted a lil like something burning a like 15 mins later i saw my small lil premie up in the air by doctor hands i heard him cry and i knew he was alrightt i cry and idk y but he kinda tearin and he still didnt kneo it was his they ask him if she wants to carrie it while they fix me up i saw him sittin right next to me holdin the small lil baby tearin and smiling like i never seem him so happy b4 so i dicied to tell him it was kinda hard but it just came out cuz i coiuldnt help it i said this is ur bby he look at me i repet it again this baby is mine and urs he was qyuite for a point he keep starin at the bby and back at me i stear in his eyes and i see him cryin the first time i seen him cry since i knoe him and i dnt think anyone seen him cry b4 cuz he iis a tought guy from a danges neiborhood wif gangs and he is in one he hand me the bby i was cryin cuz i have the love of my life in my hands we was both cryin and the nurse saw us so emotions she took a pic but we didnt kno until they gave us the pic when i left teh hospitalll my parents came the next day they found out my bby was mix they was kinnda dissapointed cuz my parents thinks this race should marry the same race but they was happy for me at the same time after the numin was gne i fel a gab of pain it hurted like a mother fukcer but i didnt care as long as i knoe my bbys helthy thann thats ok he was wif me for a whole week in the hospital after skool he would come and vist me im guessin that he told his parents cuz than to my suspirse they came to see me a few days later i was glasd to see them his prents are very nice person too they want to see the baby so they went down but his mother stay wif me to talk to me he ask me if i loved his son and she knoes i do cuz of how i be hidin the bby from him insted of ruined his relatiionship wif his grl we talked for a while she ask wats the bbys name i told her i didnt knoe yett so she told me to get some rest and she will go down and look at the baby he came in a few mins later we was talkin he told me he broke up wif her and that he didnt like her ever since i left than a nurse came in and ask we need a name for the baby so we look thought books and we pick out the name JAYDEN NOEL BAEZ jayden was a name we both like and the meanin of noel means chrismas and that was the best day of our life and thts when we made jayden but except that it was still the best day we ever had together now my bbys 3 months and we are still together and ofcourse im still in skool and im ingagted at 15

van







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