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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.

• Second Child, Natural Birth
  I was one week away from my due date when I woke up with cramps and back pain. I knew my body was trying to go into labor because this is how it felt with my first child.
• Right On Time, All Natural with Midwife
  This was my third child and since all of my births had been either on or a day or so after my due date, I was already planning for things to go as scheduled.
• Thirty Minutes from Start of Real Labor to Birth
  On October 6, 2000, exactly one week early, Levi entered our world! He was born at 3:57 a.
• Wonderful Second Birth
  We had our son's 2nd birthday party that Sunday. We had rescheduled it once because I had been having Braxton-Hicks so much and was 3 centimeters dilated, but we decided to do it then.
• Healthy Woman, Normal Pregnancy, Loved Midwives
  I am pregnant with my third child and increasingly disheartened by the birth stories of friends, neighbors and strangers I meet in and around my community who risked a traditional OB/GYN-assisted hospital birth.
• More Painful than the First
  Let me start by saying, the saying it's easier with your second is not always true. My son is now 3 years old and healthy despite toxemia and three months of bed rest.
• Wonderful Natural Childbirth
  This pregnancy had been much harder than my first one. I threw up more often, was more tired, had gestational diabetes and incredible back and hip pain.
• It Finally Happened
  I was taken off work April 17, 2001 due to preterm contractions. I was due June 16, 2001.
• Lamaze Teacher Gives Birth
  Being a new Lamaze instructor, I knew throughout my pregnancy that I was going to have Rebekah, my second child, without drugs.
• Twenty Minutes of Pain
  I was due with my third son on February 26, 2001. I had my first son two weeks early and my second was one week early and so I had the feeling I would be early with this one.
• Big Boy, Quick Labor
  I had a fairly uneventful pregnancy. The only problem was that I had gained so much weight.
• A Safe Haven
  Let me tell you the ending first, as it is perfectly preserved in my memory. On October 21, 2000, 4:59 p.
• A Natural Birth: Son Born 13 Minutes After Reaching Hospital!
  Our first child, Emily, was born after 14 hours of labor with my water breaking on its own, Pitocin to speed things up, and Stadol to help remove the edge off the pain. Although it was a nice birth, I believed the second could be better.
• Alyvia Becomes a Big Sister!
  My first story I contributed to Birthstories.com was of my first daughter, Alyvia, and her birth experience.
• Bradley Birth: WONDERFUL!
  This is the story of the birth of my second baby. Read my first story entitled: Birth with the Works: Not Good.