Birth Stories

I love love to hear about different people's birth experiences. It's so nice to hear about both the positive and negative that come with the gift of life. I have been reading so many birth stories today thanks to my pregnant friends. Ha ha. I have quite a few friends that are pregnant and they are always posting things about whether they're having a boy or girl, different research they have done on birth, different stories they have read, the different methods of giving birth, different methods to trying to conceive, how long they have been trying, feelings they have felt when the big event finally happened, and just everything that goes along with it. I just get so excited talking about childbirth and I love listening to everyone's stories. Love it!

So I just had to share a story that I read today.

I read one story entitled: Giving Birth in a Mini Van.

Oh yeah!

Well so the story goes, a family of four, mommy, daddy, and 2 little girls wanted a baby brother. The parents had researched a method called Shettles Method. Basically its a method of gender selection based on ovulatory cycles. So this family tried this method to try and conceive a baby boy. And guess what? It Worked!! This Mommy and Daddy were pregnant with a baby boy this time. Well its about time for this baby to come out. They were scheduled for an induction because this baby was just not coming out on his own. Mommy started to feel contraction 2 days before the induction date at about 2 in the morning. She didn't really think anything of it. So she goes to the bathroom and notices she just lost her mucous plug. Contractions are 5 minutes apart. She calls her mother and her mother is on her way. So she decides to take a shower and finish up packing her bag. Contractions are about 4 minutes apart. By the time her mother gets to the house 20 minutes later her contraction are back to back. Her husband loads her in car to go to the hospital which is about 15 minutes away. The contractions get so intense she tells her husband to go and run all the red lights to get them there. He makes it to the hospital in 10 minutes. They pull up to the E.R. He runs inside for help. He comes back and says they're sending a nurse. By that time she can feel little baby boys head. He runs in and grabs as many people as he can and gets back to the Mini Van just in time to catch the baby.

This woman's labor and delivery lasted a total of an hour and a half. She had no drugs, no pain, a short labor, and a very supportive family. This is by far the most positive experience I have ever read and I loved reading it.

If you want to read the whole story, which is much much better by the way here it is:
http://www.babycenter.com/0_birth-story-giving-birth-in-a-minivan_10339786.bc?page=1