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Your baby's labor and delivery is like no other in the world. Let others know what your experience was like.

• Isaac's Birth
  After five years of marriage my husband (Tim) and I finally decided to try to have a baby. I have had endometriosis and my right ovary removed because of a low malignancy tumor on it.
• My Agony Birth
  Just a few days before my due date my waters broke and I of course went to the hospital. They confirmed that my waters broke and sent me home until my contractions got five minutes apart.
• Miracle of Chloe Linda Marie
  I was 38 weeks and 2 days and had been into labor and delivery for contractions, which seemed to be false labor so I went on about my life normally. On May 9 I went into work for my last day of work before my maternity leave.
• No One Saw This Coming
  After two years of marriage, my husband and I were thrilled to learn that we were pregnant. To really add the cherry to the top, I was just to the moon when I learned I was having a girl.
• Azarel Uriah – Name You Never Hear
  I'm a firm believer of the notion that if your mind agrees to something, your will obeys. I convinced myself from before conception that no matter what, I was going to have a natural birth if it was medically possible to.
• Scariest and Most Wonderful Day of My Life
  My baby was due on 09-09-08, so a few weeks before my date, I decided to go stay at my mum's. On Friday, September 5, I was sitting in the bedroom when my baby moved to one side.
• Hailey's Birth Story
  This was my first pregnancy and it was thankfully uneventful. In the last month or two, I got really swollen.
• 13 1/2 Hours, Scary Birth: Meconium, Vacuum with First Baby at 40 Weeks, Two Days Overdue
  I went to my doctor's appointment on the 6th and I had no change. So we chose to go move some things around in Wasilla.
• Big Baby Girl
  My daughter through my whole pregnancy was larger than what the average size baby was at each of the ultrasounds that I had. I am a small woman and my doctor was worried about how big she would be if I went to my due date.
• Birth Plan, What Birth Plan?
  I found out I was pregnant seven weeks before my wedding. I was overjoyed since everyone told me that after 30 it takes months and months of trying to actually get pregnant.
• Complicated Overdue Induction
  After an absolutely brilliant healthy, no sickness or stretch marks pregnancy, I reached my due date – then went past! Each day after my due date brought one more stretch mark.
• Traumatic Pregnancy and Birth
  I was due on December 3, 2004. I had been diagnosed with pregnancy-induced hypertension at about 14 weeks and had been seeing my OB every two weeks for the whole pregnancy.
• How NOT to Have a Baby
  My husband and I found out that we were pregnant the day before Father's Day 2004. We had been "trying" for all of 17 days and we were thrilled.
• Traumatic Delivery
  I woke at 1:30 a.m.
• My Benjamin
  I went into preterm labor at 36.3 weeks – my water broke.