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Quick & Easy Delivery, No Pushing
By Melissa Watts

I woke up that morning with pains and was able to go back to sleep until later. A friend and I decided we should go to the mall and walk around, so we did and stayed there until contractions were four minutes apart.

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• Homebirth
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  • My Home Birth Story
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  • Sophee's Arrival
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• Natural Births
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• Extremely Fast
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  • Three Quick Labors
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• Induced Labor
  • Was It Supposed to Hurt?
    During my entire pregnancy, I've read almost all of these stories and have loved the really detailed ones. So if this is a little long, it's because I want people to truly get something from reading it.
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  • A Story of Amira's Birth in Germany
    I write this story hoping that it may be of some help or at least reassurance to women who are in an unenviable position of giving birth to a first child in a foreign country. I also raise a debate here over the controversial issue: natural birth vs.
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  • Induced with Preeclampsia
    I'd seen the midwife the day before at my 38-week midwife appointment, so when I saw lots of little flashing lights flying past my eyes, like a motorway at night. I didn't bother calling anyone.
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• Multiples
  • Boy/Girl Twins Born at 35 Weeks
    My husband and I had been trying to start a family for about two months when I noticed that I couldn't keep up with my usual routine at the gym. I felt like I just couldn't go on after 20 minutes and I signaled to my husband that we needed to leave.
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  • Our Story: Emerson and Cate with Three
    My husband and I had just celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary. In the following days I hadn't felt myself.
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  • Three of a Kind
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  • My Twins' Birth
    My husband Chris and I had always talked about having kids. However, when I got pregnant three months after our wedding it was a shock.
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• Scheduled C-section
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  • Sarah's Birthday
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• Complicated Pregnancy
  • Complicated Pregnancy, Healthy Baby Girl
    My name is Charity, and I found out I was pregnant in June 2007. I was scared since this was my first child and didn't know how my mom would react due to me being 18 years old at the time.
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  • Baby Luca
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  • No Amniotic Fluid After 12 Weeks – I Survived
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    Four years ago, around this time (Thanksgiving), I started noticing that the baby (Grant) was bunching up in a hard ball on one side of my stomach. It didn't hurt but I definitely felt it.
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  • Preeclampsia
    During my pregnancy I had a lot of obstacles I had to face. First, I had Bell's palsy.
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• Young Mothers
  • Lost for a Moment
    I was 18 at the time it happened not long ago. I had a boyfriend of two years, we went out and did things like couples did.
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  • I Love Being a Young Mother
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• Premature Babies
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    I was so excited to be pregnant with our first child. I actually found out when I was about 3 weeks (I hadn't even missed my period yet!
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  • My Beat of Hope
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  • My Christmas Miracle (25-26 Weeker)
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  • 31-week Preemie
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