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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.

• Home Labor, Surprise Hospital Birth
  I married my husband, Drew, on August 6, 2002. After suffering from stomach upset and headaches for a year, I went off the Pill and learned fertility awareness.
• Water Broke and I Didn't Know It
  Two days before my due date I awoke feeling wet, but not soaked. I had been sleeping on a waterproof pad for weeks, worried that I would ruin my mattress.
• My Hard Labor and My Precious Baby Boy
  I guess I should start by telling you that I had some complications (little to my knowledge). I had gone for my weekly doctor's appointment at 39 weeks.
• Hoped for Homebirth
  I was so sick of being pregnant! I was hoping from the 37th week on that I would go into labor and get it over with.
• My Six Weeks of Labor
  I found out I was pregnant when I was 4 1/2 weeks, so I got to do everything right. I took my prenatal vitamin every day and my iron pill.
• Pre-eclampsia, Induction, C-section, Baby Girl
  My due date was September 22, and I was begging my doctor to induce me. I had no signs of labor and was dying to meet my little girl.
• Labor and Then a C-section
  My original due date was January 21, but at my last appointment, my doctor decided (because of an earlier ultrasound) that it was more like January 28. So he wouldn't induce me until Sunday the 2nd.
• Scary Labor, Group B Strep Positive
  Let me put this briefly. I was Group B Strep positive and my water broke at 5:30 p.
• Hard Pregnancy, Scary Labor, Perfect Baby Girl
  I'll start from the beginning. I married a man who had sole custody of a son and we had a baby boy together.
• My Sunnyside Up Baby
  I guess long labor (about 22 hours total) equals a long birth story. So here goes.
• Scared To Do It Again
  After three weeks of being overdue and a rough pregnancy that consisted of high blood pressure, toxemia and contractions from five to six months on, I was more than happy when they finally decided to do something about it.
• Cristian Alan's Story
  I was due April 21, 2000. On April 11, I started having mild back pain.
• Surprise Breech
  My doctors had no idea that my baby was breech. I had the regulation one ultrasound (as permitted by insurance) at 20 weeks and the baby was transverse and a girl!
• 26 Hours, Back Labor, Epidural, and Finally Tyler
  On July 15, at 2:30 a.m.