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Your baby's labor and delivery is like no other in the world.
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- Fast Easy First Birth
I kept getting asked by my friends how it was (as I was the first to get married and get pregnant) and I was so happy to tell them my story.
It all started because I couldn't sleep. - Baby Boy in One and a Half Hours
This was my first baby so I was expecting the worst. The night before I went into the hospital for a checkup because I was having false labor pains so they sent me home with sleeping pills to sleep better. - Fast and Furious
I was due Tuesday July 4th. Friday June 30 I went to bed thinking this could be my last baby-free weekend. - Three-hour, 15-minute Almost Painless Birth
Hallo, it is very nice to be writing my story. I didn't know that it was such a pleasure to share your own birth experience before I had one. - Restroom Delivery
After experiencing several complications and bed rest with my pregnancy, I never would have dreamed my baby Jalee would enter the world in this manner.
On May 5, 2004, I arrived at the hospital having some contractions. - 13-Minute Labor
I was very scared throughout my pregnancy about giving birth. I was terrified beyond anyone's imagination. - Along Came Trinity
I was pregnant with our first child. My husband and I did the whole nine yards in pregnancy, the Lamaze classes, researched all the different ways to deliver and so on. - No Drugs, No Pain
It was January 10 and it was my day off so I got up and had to go to the doctor for some test because the night before I had to go in for my blood pressure. So after that was all done I came home and went for a long walk. - Elizabeth's Grand Entrance
I was 38 weeks and miserable. At 21 years old all I wanted to be was a mother. - First Time: Fast, Easy Delivery
I woke up around 7:30 a.m. - Very Easy
My name is Linda. I'm a 19-year-old mother and loving motherhood. - BZane's Birth
I had a fairly easy labor and delivery with my son, in 2003. My obstetrician never accurately predicted my due date, but I figure I had him at about 37 weeks. - My First Baby
This is the story of my first baby. I was 18 when I found out I was pregnant. - Easy Delivery; Would Do It Again
I found out I was pregnant in November of 2003. I was waking up sick every morning and finally my mom told me she thought I might be pregnant. - First Unplanned, Second Planned
I was 18 years old the first time I became pregnant (3 months along). I was fairly surprised and when I told my boyfriend, whom I was living with and had been with for a year and a half, he said to have an abortion.
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