POSTS WITH TAG: birth stories

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    This is the kind of story that makes my blood boil. A woman in England gave birth in the PARKING LOT of a hospital after being turned away TWICE by the "medical professionals" in that very hospital. Are you kidding me?

    The woman, 29-year-old Rabia Rizwan, had already given birth to two daughters, so you'd think the hospital staff might give her some credit when she told them she was in serious pain and was about to give birth. You'd think that, right? Well.

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    Do you remember how emotional you got when you pushed your first baby out into the world? When Holly Madison gave birth to her baby, Rainbow Aurora, cameras caught a very emotional moment. The E! special "Holly Has a Baby" shows the new mama just seconds before her daughter makes her first appearance -- and Holly breaks into tears.

    Just before her final push, she whimpers, "I'm scared!" Then little Rainbow comes out (the camera is tastefully angled away from the action) and is placed on Holly's chest. She tells her new baby, "I love you, hi Baby." But right before that, she says, "What do I do?" Classic! That's new motherhood right there in a nutshell.

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    There are countless horrifying details pouring in about the lives of the three women rescued this week after being held captive in a house of horrors in Ohio for 10 years. Among the most heartbreaking, however, are those regarding the birth story of Amanda Berry's daughter Jocelyn.

    According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the girl -- who is now 6 -- was born in a small inflatable swimming pool while her mother was in captivity. There were no doctors present, just her fellow captives, one of whom was reportedly forced to deliver the baby herself.

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    The odds of giving birth on a train have got to be pretty high, especially when you're delivering twins. The odds of giving birth to twins on a train twice have got to be astronomically out of this world, yet that's just what happened to a woman this weekend.

    According to UPI, it was about four years ago that Zubin Nisha and her husband Habibullah were traveling aboard a train when their twins -- a boy and a girl -- were born on board. So this time when it was time to head to the hospital, they hopped aboard a train again, probably thinking there was no way it would happen again. But it did.

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    When a good friend of mine told me that her twin boys were born about 20 hours apart, I was shocked. I had never considered that so much time could elapse after you delivered one baby. Well, as it turns out, that was nothing compared to the time between the births of twins Amy and Katie Elliott, who were born 87 days apart.

    Yes, 87 days after Amy was born, Katie arrived into the world -- that's almost three months later. They have set a world record for the "longest interval between the birth of twins" (the previous record was 84 days), and their story is nothing short of miraculous.

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    Heather Telford was pregnant with her third son. After being induced with her first two pregnancies, this time she wanted something less painful and planned to let birth happen more naturally, albeit with an epidural once labor kicked in. Well, you know what they say about the best-laid plans.

    When her labor pains came on, they came on fast. "By the time I was done eating, I had a pretty hard contraction and stood up and decided, ‘I think I might need to push. It seems like it's time,'" she told KSL.

    So she and her husband headed out to their van to go to the hospital, but they never made it. 

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    Every now and then we hear a story about a pregnant woman who suddenly gains superhero powers and is able to do what some think is the impossible. As if women aren't capable of the impossible already by just having another human being in her belly and kapow! Those powers are multiplied by infinity. What I'm saying is -- we can do things we think we can't. Our bodies are capable, and so while I do think it's fantastically amazing that Rebecca Anderson delivered her breech baby on the side of a highway in Washington state, I also have faith that many women can do the same.

    We can birth babies all on our own. Even breech ones. Rebecca's inspiring story of her highway baby is proof.

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    I have a confession to make. Birth scenes have always given me the heebie-jeebies. I have a difficult time reading about them (actually, I skip through them) or watching them on TV (actually, I leave the room). So I could empathize with what these two young guys went through. The two men filmed themselves watching a four-minute birth video. And the results are hilarious. And cringe-worthy.

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    Normally when you see those flashing lights in your rear-view mirror, you look for the nearest safe place to pull over, perhaps curse a bit, and then wait for the police officer to deliver your fate. Dad Tyler Rathjen, however, wasn't about to follow that typical protocol last week, because it wasn't a typical day -- his wife Ashley was in labor.

    According to KCRG, he was in a rush to get her to the hospital in Iowa City, and must have put the pedal to the metal a little too aggressively. So when police spotted the speeding vehicle, they attempted to get him to pull over. Tyler, however, had no intention of pulling over anywhere until he reached the hospital. So he just kept driving as police chased him.

    He told KCRG he recalled thinking, "I should not stop, I'm not going to, I'm going to get to the hospital." But even with the speeding, they didn't make it.

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    Can you imagine being in labor in rush-hour traffic? A woman en route to the hospital gave birth during the morning rush hour yesterday morning. (Why do they call it "hour," by the way, when it's more like "hours"?) Fortunately, she was pulled over to the side and got help. She delivered the baby safely, to the roar of passing traffic. Mother and baby are now recovering at a hospital.

    Someone was in an even bigger hurry than all those drivers. Whew, isn't that what we all worry about happening on the way to the hospital? What if ... what if we don't make it in time? What if I give birth in the car?!? I guess it's a relief to know that if that really does happen, you and your baby will probably still be fine.

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