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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.

• Baby Girl
  On September 14, 2006, I found out I was unexpectedly expecting. I was hoping to have a chubby baby girl – peanut babies are so nerve-racking to hold!
• Terrible Delivery
  I had a normal pregnancy. I had talked to my doctor about pain relief during labor and told him I wanted an epidural.
• Our Little Angel
  We were so thrilled to find out that we had really gotten pregnant our first time trying. I had a little bleeding on and off during my pregnancy, but it wasn't a major concern.
• Rough First Delivery, Second One a C-section
  I have just read several beautiful stories of little lives coming into the world. My first child is now 3 years old and we have only four days to my scheduled Cesarean section for my little girl!
• Rough First Birth, Zoe Alexandria
  My first full-term pregnancy was quite uneventful until about midway though the third trimester. I had contractions 3 to 15 minutes apart from 14 weeks on, so contractions were not the problem.
• Fourth-Degree Tear -- Re-Opened Two Weeks Later
  I started having contractions around 12 noon on Saturday, November 18, 2000. I went to the hospital around 1 a.
• 22 Hours -- Worse Than I Could Have Ever Imagined
  My due date was September 26. My doctor suggested inducing when I was a week late so on October 2, I went to the hospital at 5 p.
• The Birth of My First Child -- Fourth-Degree Tear
  I was due April 17. 1999.
• Hard and Fast!
  We never really know what sort of labour we will have, I always tried to think it could be extremely long, or a Cesarean or it could be a breeze! Ha Ha.
• Big Baby, No Drugs, Episiotomy, Vacuum
  Well, I noticed .'lil labor pains around 11:30 that morning.
• Vacuum Extraction, Rude DOCTOR
  My husband and I found out that we were having a daughter; she was due on April 28, 1999. I went to my doctor's appointment about a week before my due date.
• C-section Too Risky, Forceps Not Working, Mother Wearing Down
  My wife did not have a bad pregnancy. It was easy for her.
• Baby Adrienne ... Right on Time
  I went to the doctor two days before my due date. He said that I hadn't dilated yet and we made an appointment to be induced in one week.
• Speedy Delivery
  I had saved up all my vacation, taken the six-week childbirth course, and endured dozens of sometimes scary stories of other women's birth experiences in preparation for what might have been the longest, most painful event of my life.
• Valetine's Day 2000
  This was my husband's and my first child. We found out at 24 weeks that she was a little girl.