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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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Daniyal's Birth Story
  My due date was December 25 (Christmas baby), but boy, oh boy, he had other things planned. Christmas came and went with no signs of Baby.
• Induced Six Days Late
  I was late by six days when my doctor sent me over for a stress test. On the way to the hospital I was contracting about every six minutes and they were quite uncomfortable.
• Our Little Hunny Bee
  I was approximately 28 weeks pregnant when I ended up in the hospital due to complications. I was having a lot of pain, which was resulting in nausea and vomiting.
• Ruptured Membranes at 35 Weeks
  I was going for my checkup at my OB/GYN in a town over an hour away from where I lived. I was 5 weeks from my due date.
• My Little Bean
  I had a difficult time coming to terms with my pregnancy. I didn't know how I was going to tell my boyfriend (now my husband) and was absolutely terrified of the prospect of telling my parents.
• First baby: Induction, Long Labor
  Jeyda Raye Miller, April 14, 2008, 5 pounds, 8 ounces Throughout my pregnancy my OB had insisted that I had high blood pressure, and near the end of my pregnancy she was convinced it was preeclampsia.
• Jacob Steven – Pitocin, Epidural
  After a year of fertility treatments we finally discovered we were pregnant. The pregnancy was pretty uneventful, except by 39 weeks I was out of room to breathe and ready to have this baby!
• Now? Induction? Who, Me?
  The final weeks of a first pregnancy can be simultaneously exhilarating and frightening. You're struck with ambivalence; on the one hand you can't wait for this bump to come out, and on the other hand, this bump has got to come out!
• Birth of Gavin Blayne: Induction and Emergency C-section
  I was 16 years old when I got pregnant with my first child. I had extremely high blood pressure the entire time I was pregnant with him.
• Easy, Short, First Delivery
  The month after turning 21 I found out my then-boyfriend and I would be expecting a baby. I was only 3 weeks pregnant when we found out.
• Great Induction, Fast Delivery
  I was scheduled to be induced at 7 a.m.
• Little Harrison Arrives
  After five months of severe morning sickness with my first pregnancy, I was hospitalized three times and put on IV. I lost a total of 17 pounds before I started to gain any weight.