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RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? - 7/15/2010 7:10:18 PM

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I was also born two months premature. I weighed 2 pounds, 2 ounces at birth with a number of health problems, they told my mother I would not live through the day. They were wrong. My very young teenage father enlisted on the day I was born and later died in the service. There are many theories that traumatic births can effect your emotional development. I choose to consider myself lucky to have lived instead of embracing them.

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RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? - 7/15/2010 7:19:22 PM

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There are many theories that traumatic births can effect your emotional development. I choose to consider myself lucky to have lived instead of embracing them.

Oh, i'm not complaining, actually. Just curious. As fucked up as my life has been, i wouldn't want to exchange it for a normal one. i have a bunch of cousins who are all as normal as butter on toast. i look at them, and i'm kind of glad that's not me.

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RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? - 7/15/2010 7:22:11 PM

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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.

Congrats, your head turned out beautiful.

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RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? - 7/15/2010 7:25:10 PM

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I was born in Japan ( a rare enough thing for foreigners there in the 50s). When my mum went into labour they called a cab and headed to the hospital. However I was in a hurry, so my mum told my dad and the driver that they wouldn't make it to the hospital. They thought she was just panicking, but she reminded them that this was her 4th child and she knew what she was about. So they diverted to the family doctor's place. It was the middle of the night so they roused the doctor just in time. The fun bit is that the doctor's nurse had gone home for the night, so my dad had to assist (remember this was back when all a father did was hang around the waiting room till he was summoned to view the cleaned-up & swaddled baby), and upon my arrival all bloody & gooey, my father threw up

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RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? - 7/15/2010 7:44:18 PM

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My dad was in the American army as a Lt. in Germany. He was 21 and my mom was 20. She refused to stay home just because she was pregnant.

She traveled on a horrible ship to Europe and was throwing up the entire time, both from seasickness and morning sickness, with me. I was their first child.

When they got to Germany, they lived on an army base and my mom had no one to talk to, my dad was doing army stuff and she was flipping out. She could not even call her mom or sister back in Brooklyn. Just letters.

She never once saw the same doctor; every week a new one and some did not speak English. My dad speaks 7 languages so he helped, but still...to not have a relationship with one doctor with your first kid at age 20? Tough.

The night I was born, Feb. 4, it was a blizzard and my dad was at the opera because my mom said it would be a week to go. She went into labor and no one could find him for hours.

She was in labor with me for 23 hours and finally he got there but they would not let him in.

Very dramatic birth and tough time for my mom; but I was a very wanted baby so it all worked out well. We left Germany when I was 1 and apparently I was quite a hit on the army base, a redhead baby was kind of unusual.

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RE: who's got a dramatic birth story? - 7/15/2010 7:54:16 PM

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My hampster had babies one night. Then one of them died, and she ate it.

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