Comments on: BlogHer Birth Stories – Or, How I Suck At Being Pregnant

By: Jean Blue

Jean Blue — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:34:06 +0000

A plea for people to consider the ethics of buying maternity clothes. Really, if people are willing to have a baby on this planet, you’d better make sure the world remains a good one! Therefore please try and think about, for example, the cloth your clothes are made with, the human rights of the employees where they’re made and the ethics of the clothes retailer. And try to share, rather than throwing away. Thanks!!!!

By: Vanderbilt Wife

Vanderbilt Wife — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:51:52 +0000

Oh my.

It’s interesting–difficult–scary–to think about the number of children that would or would not be here if not for modern medicine. With all of the factors affecting fertility, fertility treatments, birth control, and those life-saving doctors and nurses, there are so many factors to it. Amazing what God has allowed. I feel very grateful for the creation of modern medicine reading this!

jessie

By: Velma

Velma — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:26:26 +0000

I hear you. Two kids. “Advanced maternal age.” PPROM with both (34 and 35 weeks.) Hyperemesis. And so much more… and that’s just the prenatal stuff! But we all know we wouldn’t have it any other way – we are so lucky to have our kids, no matter how we get them or how they come into the world.

By: ParentopiaDevra

ParentopiaDevra — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:11:08 +0000

I did pregnancy fine. Delivery? Train wreck. Suffice it to say I only share the story with people who are done having kids or have a medical background. Only because I would never want anyone else to panic that what happened to me, would happen to them too. According to the stats, only .7% of the population have the experience I had. Yes, that’s right Point Seven Percent. But long story short, when I left the hospital after having had to remain as an in-patient two weeks past the birth of my son, the nurse told me “We’re so happy to see you going home.” and I said, “Oh me too. It will be nice to sleep in my own bed tonight.” and then the nurse put a hand on each of my shoulders and looked me straight in the eye and said very seriously, “No, I mean we are happy to see you go home at all. The only patient who was more ill than you was the Jehovah Witness across the hall who was hemoraging and refusing a blood transfer.”
But if anyone really wants to hear the entire thing, I’m okay with talking about it, but I dont’ like the idea of anyone just “happening” upon it. It was pretty scary. I just didn’t alllow myself to think about it too much while it was happening!

By: wandermom

wandermom — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:46:18 +0000

Snap! I wouldn’t have made it either. I didn’t throw up a lot, but I did have the low amniotic fluid, bed rest (with monitors), breech baby c-section – on my first. For kicks, your LA rush hour traffic made me laugh. I was in Stanford, CA my husband was in Seattle. Thankfully my peanut held on for long enough for dh to get to the hospital.
But the real reason I wouldn’t have survived? My body doesn’t produce enough pitocin. After both deliveries, while in a monitored post-delivery ward, I nearly died – twice. No contractions, just a little old uterus filling up with blood and me slowly winding down.
I cherish my kids every day and I’m glad I had medical help to be able to experience their lives.

By: Lucretia

Lucretia — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:33:18 +0000

I didn’t know you were hyperemetic too!
My OMG-don’t-read-it-if-you’re-pregnant-right-now-I-really-mean-it birth story is here:
http://tinyurl.com/btm5nu
I have a hard time sharing it – because there’s just no good point in it except for the part where I’m miraculously alive and my daughter is too.

I not only wouldn’t be here if it were 50 years ago, I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t been at the hospital I was at.

By: Wishing4One

Wishing4One — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:33:22 +0000

What cool stories. Sucks the pregnancies were so bad, but thank God both of your kids were (are) great! LA traffic i saw just a few times and good thing you even made it to ER and your husband one minute before cutting priceless!

By: ColetteNicole

ColetteNicole — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:40:57 +0000

One of my mid-wives told me that I was “perfectly made for having babies” so I would have been the dead-eyed woman in the wagon train with 17 children…

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By: Erin W.

Erin W. — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:52:43 +0000

What a time to NOT have cable! I just had a baby on March 26th (right between yours, eh?) and I’m still very much into the whole baby story stuff. Will there be stuff online? Streaming video on Discovery Health’s website?

And, btw, thank you for sharing your birth stories with us. Perhaps one day I might post mine.