Personal Narrative: A Labor And Delivery Birth Story

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Every labor and delivery birth story isn’t the same, not ever women is the same. Not every women looks at it this way, but most soon to be mother can agree that the birth of a baby is one of the greatest feeling in this world. All the pain we go through at the end is all worth it. Every experience that child goes through may influence our action as an adult.
It all started Friday, September 22nd at 5:50 am. I felt something warm and wet going down my legs as I am laying down in bed, al I thought was “did I pee myself”. I get out of bed and rush to the bathroom but as I do that more and more water comes down, and that’s when I realize the moment everyone was waiting for is happening; my water broke. First thing that came to my mind was to call my mom and then my boyfriend. My mother told me not to freak out so I tried not to, my boyfriend was in shock and couldn’t believe it. In matter of 5 minutes or less they were both already at my house.
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They start to hook me up to the monitors and hen that’s when the contractions began. The start to get worse and worse but I still could manage it. While I am lying in bed still having contractions I start to hear the other females in the other rooms yelling and screaming, you were just able to tell they were in pain. That just started to make me nervous, I just thought if I was going to be like that. Couple hours later the doctor comes in and asked if I wanted the epidural, and of course I did not think about it twice and I said yes. The best choice I made was saying yes, after that I felt nothing, by then all I was thinking about was having my baby boy in my arms and tell him how much I love

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