and how unique is YOUR birth story?

[chiver78]

I know, Distractify.com, but read it. I'm in awe. 


This Mom Delivered Her Own Baby In a Hotel Room on an International Trip

[Virgil Showlion]

I've read that in rural China of yesteryear, it wasn't uncommon for women working out in the rice paddies to give birth alone, swaddle the infant, and go back to harvesting the rice with the child bundled against them.

As for myself, I flew from my mother's womb as she battled against snow leopards, cutting them down by the hundreds. I landed unharmed in a bed of wildflowers. My mother severed the umbilical cord and used the placenta as a flail, fighting to her last breath to defend me. It is said that I cried out with the voice of a lion as she fell to the horde.

Passing herders spirited me away, adopted me, and raised me to become the grounded individual I am today.

[kadee79]

May 20, 2018 11:01:57 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

I've read that in rural China of yesteryear, it wasn't uncommon for women working out in the rice paddies to give birth alone, swaddle the infant, and go back to harvesting the rice with the child bundled against them.

As for myself, I flew from my mother's womb as she battled against snow leopards, cutting them down by the hundreds. I landed unharmed in a bed of wildflowers. My mother severed the umbilical cord and used the placenta as a flail, fighting to her last breath to defend me. It is said that I cried out with the voice of a lion as she fell to the horde.

Passing herders spirited me away, adopted me, and raised me to become the grounded individual I am today.

Love your fiction writing.  Sounds like a lot of other posts. 

[NoNamePerson]

I crawled out from under a rock cussing like a fuckin' sailor! Or so I've been told.  

[Jaguar]

I put up so much fight that the nurse (she knew my mom) said the only thing worth saving is her blue eyes. I'm still here, the fighter that I truly am!

[happyhoix]

Perfectly mundane birth story. As the third girl of four, it was barely more notable than picking up Chinese take out for dinner.

Perhaps the only notable event was that my parents had run out of girls' names and my grandma had to name me.

Mundane when it comes to births is good, though. Lots of possibilities are much, much worse.

[empress of self-improvement]

Birth story is boring unless you consider that my parents thought I was going to be twins because I was apparently a hefty little fetus. Not much has changed from that. And I had no desire to come out so was about a month late. This is according to my baby book. They are no longer around to ask.

The first year of my life story, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.  Pneumonia then spinal meningitis. I spent most of my first year in the hospital. That's really all I know.

[cael]

I came a month early so mostly just surprised everyone, my mom's water broke and she ran out of the house on the ice to grab my dad before he left for work. I was teeny but no issues otherwise.

Now, my kid's is a bit more exciting - my water broke while I was standing in my boss's office, the day before he left for a 2 week vacation which I was supposed to be covering for him. Also I had to sign the P&S on our house by the end of the day, so I did after I got checked into the hospital, I was whining because I was getting floaters in my eyes (no meds yet) and couldn't read it. DH told me to just sign it, my family lawyer had already OKed it. Besides the flurry of insanity when it began, it was perfectly routine after that.

[cael]

May 20, 2018 8:29:29 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

I know, Distractify.com, but read it. I'm in awe. 


This Mom Delivered Her Own Baby In a Hotel Room on an International Trip

And I just finished reading this whole story and damn... all the kudos to this girl!!

[andi9899]

My water broke while I was working my cashier job at the grocery store both times.

[tractor]

My mother was induced early so the Dr wouldn’t be late to the college football game (he had great season tickets after all).

My boys were fairly normal, unless you count the 41 hours of labor my wife had to endure with the first one 🙂

[NoNamePerson]

May 22, 2018 12:38:19 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

My water broke while I was working my cashier job at the grocery store both times.

Dr. Had to break my water. He probably went to his grave trying to figure out the names I called him.  

[cktc]

A neat story, but also kinda horrifyingly bad problem solving and she was lucky everything worked out as well as it did.

Horrible google skills. The difference between Braxton Hicks and contractions has nothing to do with your water breaking.

Cabs know where hospitals are, and there is pretty much always someone at airports and hotels who speak English.

It would be quicker and easier to google US Consulate than to watch a bunch of videos on how to give birth on your own.

She's in the Air Force and has seemingly traveled before, kind of surprised that she didn't know to reach out to the consulate immediately upon landing.

[Spellbound454]

Born at grandmas house in London

Funny little pointy ears apparently .... probably harking back to elvish ancestry

[NastyWoman]

My claim to fame is that I am my mom's 3rd child and her first birth that was actually attended by anyone but her and the baby. My brothers were born before my father was back from calling the midwife. After I was born mom managed to repeat the unattended birth scenario four more times. She had one in the hospital but the little pre-mature boy did not survive (eclampsia); and father did my youngest sister enter the world.

[alabamagal]

I have 2 friends who had their babies in the car on the side of the road. Both chose to go to hospitals more than an hour from home, and it was 2nd and 5th child for each. I just can’t imagine having to say “pull over now!” First was in early 90s so no cell phone, they had to flag down someone to go send ambulance. Other woman was 6 years ago so they had cell phone. I also wonder what I’d say on birth certificate. Instead of hospital, does it have a car?

My second child was induced, started in the morning and doctor went to office to see patients. Nurses were supposed to call at a certain point. Things went quickly and baby was born before doctor got there. I thought I should get a discount.

[weltschmerz]

I was born in a castle. Does that count?

[teen persuasion]

May 22, 2018 14:55:10 GMT -5 cktc said:

A neat story, but also kinda horrifyingly bad problem solving and she was lucky everything worked out as well as it did.

Horrible google skills. The difference between Braxton Hicks and contractions has nothing to do with your water breaking.

Cabs know where hospitals are, and there is pretty much always someone at airports and hotels who speak English.

It would be quicker and easier to google US Consulate than to watch a bunch of videos on how to give birth on your own.

She's in the Air Force and has seemingly traveled before, kind of surprised that she didn't know to reach out to the consulate immediately upon landing.

I just read all her tweets.  Holy cow!   She is so lucky everything went well, not just with birth, but also with the human trafficking scrutiny while overseas.




I always got intense Braxton-Hicks contractions, so I was really surprised when I realized I was having labor pains with my first kid - they were the tiniest little *plinks*, but they were regular.  First noticed them at church in the morning, and by 9 pm I thought I'd give my OB a head's up. She was already at the hospital for another delivery, so she told me to just come in. The hospital was only a few blocks from our apt, and we regularly walked around the neighborhood, so I walked over. The nurses were flabbergasted that I was 9cm dilated and WALKED, but the contractions were NBD. Until they broke my water - then they were off the chart. No, literally - the monitor would climb to the top of the tape and ride along the top because it couldn't go any higher, before finally dropping back to normal levels at the tail end of the contraction.

Otherwise, a pretty standard delivery, thanks to the external version I'd gone thru a week or 2 beforehand to turn my breech baby. Walked all over the neighborhood (on doctor's orders) after that procedure, to keep the baby in position while the uterine-muscle-relaxer-drug wore off.

DS2 had the cord wrapped around his neck, had to stop pushing until it was eased off.

DD3 was the breech + 2 weeks overdue kid - too big to turn (discovered when doc, who insisted "nobody in this county does versions, but it's ok because the baby's turned", wanted to induce me before HER vacation), so unscheduled C section with strange doctor, yay!

DS4, easiest normal delivery. I got to assist with his circ. Long story goes back to vacation doc in previous pregnancy...

DS5, nothing much exciting on my side, but kudos go out to my parents who had watched over ALL of the grandkids at some point that day (3 families).

[toomuchreality]