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gungadin09 -> who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/14/2010 10:19:20 PM)

Here goes. This is going to sound fake:

i was born 2 months premature in the middle of a blizzard. My parents couldn't get the car to start, so they had to get somebody, i think my uncle, to give them a ride to the hospital. My mom's doctor was on vacation at the time. It didn't matter though, because the nurse didn't believe my mom was really in labor; she said she was just having random pains. My dad kept trying to convince the hospital staff that this wasn't normal. They didn't believe my mom was giving birth until they saw the crown of my head coming out. Then, they told my mom to try to hold me in, because they weren't in the emergency room. The whole thing only lasted a matter of minutes. Then, they whisked me away to put me in the incubator thing. My mom thought that meant that i was dead.

i guess it was touch and go for a while. My liver wasn't working. Rubella, or something. Then, they kept covering my eyes so i wouldn't stare at the lights, and i kept ripping off the gauze. Or, maybe it was my hands they covered, i forget. My dad says i squirmed a lot. i guess i was stubborn. My dad says he remembers watching me through the glass of the incubator; all wired up and fighting. He says he stills sees it in me, the struggle. i've always wondered if the dramatic way i came into this world affected my mentality; like, if it instilled in me the idea that life is a fight. i have three sisters who all had normal births, and who all have relatively normal lives compared to mine. Anyone else got a good story?

pam



DesFIP -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 7:42:34 AM)

Not that dramatic. But my youngest came during the two day break between a blizzard that dropped 3' of snow on us and my plow guy had to do us every 8" to keep the road open, and the spring thaw that caused it all to melt and flood all the roads around which would have had me unable to get to the hospital in time. I got to the hospital in time but my doctor nearly didn't as she lived 45 minutes north of it and my son was ready to go when she arrived.



DarlingSavage -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 8:20:59 AM)

My mother told the doctors to have the baby without her, she was leaving.



alatheia -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 8:35:42 AM)

Like you, I was born two months prematurely.. Had to spent a month in an incubator, went through surgery to unclog my tear ducts, they covered my eyes to protect them from the light thatll make jaundice better. All that fun stuff. They told my mom there was a chance Id be scared of closed spaces like elevators.. they were right [&:]



Missokyst -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 11:22:24 AM)

My first child was 2 months preemie.. but she was in perfect shape and very healthy apart from sounding like a tiny lamb when she cried. My 3rd childs birth was amazing. I got up at 8 am, did my normal coffee and toast and not feel at all like it was going to be his birthday. At 9 am.. the grandfather clock did the morning chime and my water broke as I was in the kitchen getting a refill. I did not have any labor pains at that time but I felt the need to get to the hospital which was 30 miles away in Los Angeles traffic. At 9:05 we were out the door and headed down the freeway in our 1969 Volkswagon beetle. The labor pains started as soon as we hit the freeway and they were coming fast. I don't know how but we made that 30 min trip in 20 mins. As soon as I walked in the woman at the front yelled out "get a gurney" to someone nearby and I was on that thing and being rushed to the delivery room. My legs were spread and my son was born at 9:30 am and was in my arms even as they were cutting the cord.

It was the best experience of my life.



kdsub -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 12:14:13 PM)

My wife has very narrow pelvic bones and needs to deliver by cesarean section. She went into labor one evening when I was at work…Of course it was in the middle of an ice storm so I called an ambulance and told her I would meet her at the hospital.

I drove like a mad man through the treacherous ice, luckily I was driving a jeep. When I arrived at the emergency room I was told she had not arrived and that the ambulance had skidded off the road and down a 40 foot incline. She was ok but emergency equipment had not reached them yet.

I could just see these ambulance techs having to perform an emergency C section…BUT an hour after I arrived they got her to the emergency room and with just a kiss she was off to surgery.

My lovely little daughter was a preemie at 6 months and I could tell she was struggling to live…she was under 3 pounds and barely breathing. The doctor took me into his office and told me she had only a 20percent chance of surviving and even then she would need to be transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit 30 miles away.

I only had time to break the news to my wife and I was off to Cardinal Glennon hospital with my Jenny. It was five weeks before we were told she would most likely make it and another five before we took her home. There was still the worry about brain, eye, and lung damage but thank God she is with me today…vibrant, healthy and successful.

In a way it was a blessing because I spent all the time I could with her in the intensive care unit and she bonded with me, and me with her, and has always been a daddy’s girl to mommy’s dismay.

Butch



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 12:22:53 PM)

It's not my story, since I was already 2 by the time I was adopted, that being said however.

My sister in law, had to have a C section, because when her first born was ready to be born the umbilical cord was wrapped around the little babies neck, and coming out the vaginal canal would of strangled the child.



LaTigresse -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 12:30:10 PM)

I am not sure how dramatic it is but I had my first child at home.

Went into labour that morning, spent all freakin day at the hospital, they finally decided it was false labour and sent me home. We stopped and ate at Wendy's, then went home. I took a handful of calcium pills, a warm bath and went to bed. A premonition told me to put a garbage bag and towel under my arse before drifting off to sleep.

I woke up at 12:45ish am, to serious labour and broken water (thank god for premonitions). My son was born at 1:10ish am in the same bed (because there was NO FUCKING WAY I was getting in a car to drive 40 miles back to the hospital at that point, especially with my, by then, drunk husband behind the wheel and I was in no condition to drive), all nice and healthy.

After some clean up we did go back to the hospital to get checked out and stitched up. The doctors commended my, then, husband on a job well done. I remember I was mad as hell at the doctor because it was obvious he (the husband) was so drunk as to be damned near worthless. We had to wait for his mother to come and drive us to the hospital as it was. Such a glorious marriage that was!



Lucylastic -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 12:43:07 PM)

my eldest was head and half a shoulders out, but was blue and had to be pushed back in so the cord around her neck twice could be removed, I thought I had been in pain up too that moment... having a hand  and 8lb10 oz baby shoved back six inches they had to scrape me off the ceiling.
Second one was a breeze
Third one,  was induced and after 15 hours I wasnt dilatded  and they wouldnt give me an epi... I started pushing, nurse went in for a look.... head was in the way, they didnt have time to get me to delivery,
Aaaah the joys of motherhood
I was doing kegels half an hour after he was born!!!!!




littlewonder -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 3:51:56 PM)

I was born with pneumonia and they thought I wouldn't make it. I pulled through only for my mother to drop me on my head on a cement floor a year later.

It's a miracle I'm still alive I tell ya!

Nothing dramatic with my own child. Born a week early, in labor for 4 hours, normal natural birth. Nothing abnormal.



fipsie69 -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 5:12:00 PM)

born/trainwreck with:
broken tendon in my neck so my head hung on one shoulder.
messed up feet/legs, toes touching shins (stayed there for a while).
no acetabula (the socket in the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone.) so spent the 1st year of life in plaster from the waist down, doctors thought I'd never walk properly (did the 100 meters in 12 seconds at school - no worries)
and jaundice
scared the crap out of my mother.
are there points for artistic and technical merit for this?



Jeffff -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 5:13:22 PM)

I was born at 1:00 PM.

I didn't want to leave even then. I was pulled out with forceps.

I still like to sleep in.



kiwisub12 -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 5:17:35 PM)

I had two children come out my vagina!!!!!     That is way dramatic enough for me!!!![:@]



dovie -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 5:21:34 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: kiwisub12

I had two children come out my vagina!!!!!     That is way dramatic enough for me!!!![:@]


<<<fell out screaming laughing.......bahhhhhhhhh[sm=rofl.gif]

dovie



BossyShoeBitch -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 5:28:06 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: kiwisub12

I had two children come out my vagina!!!!!     That is way dramatic enough for me!!!![:@]


Me too! LOL


But I was also pulled out with forceps when I was born. I was left with two little dents on either side of my head. I told my husband that O MATTER WHAT, they were not allowed to use vacuum or forceps on her at all. I would rather have a c-section.

Luckily, they didn't need to do either.



WinsomeDefiance -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 5:47:59 PM)

My little sister's best friend got pregnant when she was a teenager. When she was 5 months pregnant, she woke up in bed to her bed drenched in blood and started screaming for her mom. They rushed to the hospital, where they were made to wait, and when they were finally called the nurse gave the pregnant girl a container and asked her to go to the bathroom and pee in it. The girl delivered the 4month premature baby right there in the bathroom. The baby survived, thrived and grew up with my own boys. A very beautiful young lady with a heart of gold.

Needless to say, the hospital did not send a bill for the premmie care provided.




Lucylastic -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 6:58:23 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: kiwisub12

I had two children come out my vagina!!!!!     That is way dramatic enough for me!!!![:@]

Cant say fairer than that Kiwi, lol [:D]



gungadin09 -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 6:59:21 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Missokyst

...not feel at all like it was going to be his birthday.


If it's not an impertinent question, what does that feel like? How can you tell?

pam



Reform -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 7:01:04 PM)

To begin with, it was Labor Day. My mom went into labor, and I came out 23 hours later. I certainly didn't want to come out, I was in the birth canal for so long, my head became deformed into a cone shape. The doctors had my mom gently rub my head back into a proper shape.

The excitement came after I was taken into the nursery. My mom gave specific instructions to have a nurse wake her when I was hungry because she wanted to breastfeed me. Well, the nurse didn't do that. Instead she fed me water out of a bottle. I choked but my gag reflex didn't work, so I stopped breathing and turned blue. The nurse rushed me into the NICU where I spent my first two weeks of life hooked up to all kinds of machines. My dad cried, thinking I was going die, and my parents left the hospital without me. They didn't know what was wrong with me until the nurse fessed up. Finally I got better, and they let me go home.



gungadin09 -> RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? (7/15/2010 7:06:00 PM)

Sorry. Double post.

pam




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