Story archives - tag: "childbirth"

Duckie

She couldn't tell for 8 months, until that night in the college dorm bathroom.

tags: unwanted pregnancy childbirth oops baby college [add]

2010-03-13 22:20:03 / Rating: 267 /

cannwin

I don't think my husband realized I knew all those words until he sat next to me in the delivery room.

tags: childbirth marriage swearing [add]

2010-03-05 14:15:40 / Rating: 528.5 /

Sarah

As my son's head crowned, my eyes about popped out of my head as I remember thinking: "Gee, this feels weird."

tags: childbirth [add]

2009-02-04 14:45:23 / Rating: 261.25 /

The nerve...

After the doctor told me, "It's a girl," my never-married mother looked into my bundle of joy's eyes and said, "Maybe you will break the cycle and get married first before having a child."

tags: childbirth mother unwed baby [add]

2008-12-22 15:22:44 / Rating: 404 /

Tad Shackles

I have always been smarter and stronger than my younger brother, but when he told me he had a baby on the way I felt very weak and dumb.

tags: brotherhood childbirth sibling rivalry [add]

2008-02-22 14:58:44 / Rating: 338 /

Wishin' for an epidural

Having a baby feels like trying to push a freight train up a mountain with your hoo-ha.

tags: childbirth baby labor delivery train mountain [add]

2007-09-21 15:18:36 / Rating: 530.5 /

MamaXT

The first time my baby cried, I woke up from my 8 hour anesthesia coma, sat up in bed, and said "give me my baby."

tags: childbirth parenting [add]

2007-09-13 14:29:42 / Rating: 519.5 /

jfirth

No sound compares in fury or power to the sound of a woman pushing a baby through the birth canal without the aid of drugs.

tags: birth childbirth fatherhood labor [add]

2007-09-07 22:44:58 / Rating: 455.75 /