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Birth Story- Part 2 S2 Episode 9 · Sip Happens

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  I'm Alexandra. I am Lynn.
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  I'm Rose and this is sit happens.
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  We wanted to just give you a heads up, this podcast is all
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  for fun and entertainment. We are sharing our own thoughts
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  and stories, not professional advice.
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  Just relax. Enjoy and don't take us too
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  seriously. Let's get this started.
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  Welcome to SIT. Happens.
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  What's in your cup today? Go ahead, Lynn.
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  Well I have a semi warm caramel latte from 9:00 AM and it's
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  already 1:30 PM. How about you?
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  So I stopped by Dunkin' Donuts today because yesterday we
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  celebrated my youngest 2nd birthday and he loves munchkins
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  so I wanted to bring some munchkins to his class and
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  surprised him and I was like I'll treat myself.
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  It's my birthday too. So I got me a brown shaken
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  espresso from Dunkin. It's my new favorite now, so
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  then you might need to learn how to.
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  Make that we have to learn some money.
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  Some some money. There you go.
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  What about you, Rosie? I have a protein.
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  Shake doing the one that. Lynn had last week.
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  The birthday, love that flavor. What do you put in it?
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  Anything else? Do you put something in your
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  protein? No, I'm just, I'm just wondering
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  because it's delicious and I've tried it with milk and I've
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  asked you what milk you've used and you said the protein milk.
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  So I'm just was wondering if you played with a little bit to get
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  to your liking? Just.
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  Poured it in there. And water.
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  That's it. It's bold, it's so great.
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  So today we're recording Part 2 of a birth story and Lynn, my
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  friend, you're up. Please share a with us your
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  story for your babies. And that's perfect because
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  yesterday was Mother's Day. So happy Mother's Day to
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  everybody, and I'm excited that I get to share my story because
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  it's a little bit different from your stories.
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  Speaking of that, I think I've heard many different stories and
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  I promise you they all sound different.
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  It's very unique, yes. So I can't wait to hear.
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  I mean, you've shared a little bit of it, so I'm curious to see
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  how you're going to share with the audience both.
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  Of them please ladies, I love this part because I think it's
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  one of the stories that you always like to go back to right.
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  You love to just go back to the time when you went into labor
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  and I remember the night before I had Lana that's my oldest one.
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  We had a pasta night with some friends and a movie night.
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  And usually, you know, with your first born, they say they
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  usually come after the due date. And so we're like, OK, we're
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  going to have to have a movie night and have some pasta and
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  just be together because, you know, it's four days before my
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  due date or five days before my due dating.
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  You know, as we go to the due date and after, then we can
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  expect the baby to come. So this is my last chance to get
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  together. So we had some friends over and
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  we had pasta. We want some kind of chick
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  flick. I don't remember what I was.
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  And everybody went home and I woke up in the morning and I was
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  like, man, that pasta, I was not right with me.
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  And I think it was like around 8:00 AM in the morning and I go
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  to the bathroom. I was like, it's just
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  Constipation. It's not coming out.
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  So I go back to bed and 10 minutes later I'm like, oh man,
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  I have to go again. I go to the bathroom, I sit,
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  nothing comes out. I go back to bed.
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  Then I try to sleep again. And 10 minutes later, I have
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  this urge again to go to the bathroom.
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  And then I'm like, wait a minute.
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  Every 10 minutes I have to go to the bathroom.
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  So I called the hospital where I was supposed to give birth.
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  And I'm like, I think I may be in labor.
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  Every 10 minutes I have to go to the bathroom.
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  And she was like, you know, just take a bath, Take a hot bath.
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  Because if it's real labor, it will intensify and it will come
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  more frequently. And she's like, and if it's not
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  the one bath, what kind of just relax your muscles and it will
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  stop. If this is just Braxton, Braxton
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  Hicks contractions and I'm like, OK, that sounds good.
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  So just to be just be in case, I took a shower first to shave.
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  That's important. It's important.
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  Because like, just in case something's going to happen and
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  I go into the hot water tub and it intensifies, I don't have to
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  worry about that anymore. And I'm like, OK, I'm going to
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  shave. And while I want, I'm drawing in
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  the water in the bathtub and I get into the bathtub at every 5
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  minutes by the dot, I was getting my contractions and I'm
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  like, no, I'm going to do labor. It's happening every 5 minutes.
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  And I'm like, OK, I need to get that.
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  I started making phone calls. I'm like, I think I'm, I'm going
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  to labor. Somebody needs to take me to the
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  hospital. So I called the French.
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  She lives like right across around the corner.
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  And for our audience that don't know me, I was single during
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  pregnancy. And so I had a great backup and
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  a great support system that we're all going to help me
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  through this time. So I called my sister, I called
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  my mom, I called my neighbor and I told her it's like you can
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  take your time. Even though it's every 5
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  minutes, it's still, I'm still okay.
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  So I was putting on my makeup, my see, I am, I was a single mom
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  at that time. And I'm like, I'm going to have
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  nice pictures. And that was important.
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  And it was important. I was like, I'm going to have
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  nice pictures with my baby. And I knew the doctors at the
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  hospital. That.
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  Was the truth. There was a really cute younger
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  doctor and he was like featured in magazines and things.
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  And I, I knew them personally and I knew the staff person
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  because that was the hospital where I was doing my clinical
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  rotations to nursing school. I knew all the doctors and the
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  staff because I, I would, was doing my clinical rotations from
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  nursing school there. So I knew everybody.
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  I'm like, no, I'm not that. I'm going to be laughing.
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  I'm going to be put together and I am going to look nice.
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  They're going to Remember Me. So I was a little bit vain, I
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  have to admit. But I'm like, this is all I got
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  right. I don't have everybody's going
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  to feel sorry for me because I'm there without, you know, a dad.
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  I'm going to be there, but I'm going to represent everybody and
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  everybody's going to look good. So while I was getting ready,
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  you have to imagine I was putting my eyeliner on and in
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  between I'm like my contractor. Was like but this is important.
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  I have. I have my eyeliner on.
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  I care. Oh.
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  My God, going back, I wanted a water birth.
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  I was like, a kid needs to be waterproof.
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  I'm going to have a water birth. I need to be put together.
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  Well, I was putting my makeup on.
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  I was like, it was intensifying. So I called my friend.
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  I'm like, no, you need to come now.
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  You don't have time like I was when I called her herself, Like
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  you have like, you know, an hour or two.
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  I'm like, no, you need to be here now.
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  Every 5 minutes, every hour or? Okay, so how far was the
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  hospital? Not even 10 minutes away, she
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  picked me up and drove into. I was, I was freaking her out so
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  much because I am not the kind of girl that does like
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  contraction. No, it's like I was a cow.
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  So I was freaking her out every time I had a contraction.
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  I was freaking her out so much that she drove into a one way
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  St. in the wrong direction. There were other cars coming.
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  She was honking and she was like get out of the way.
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  This lady's having a baby. It's like the movie.
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  It's like the movies and it was sunny.
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  The hospital where I was going to give birth to was the
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  hospital that I was having my clinical rotation.
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  It was a huge lobby. You go in and it goes like all
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  the way up to the 6th floor, but it's open, The lobby's open, so
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  you can see all the sixth floors up.
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  So when I went in, there had a contraction and it was echoing
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  to the entire hospital. And I had friends that have
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  their clinical rotations on the 6th floor and they heard me.
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  They're like, that's slim because everybody knew that.
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  I found that time end of July, I'm June and everybody knew
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  where they're going to be. And one of my mail college
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  maids, there was a nursing school with me.
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  She's like I'm having my clinical rotations during your
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  due date if you have it while I'm there, am I allowed to
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  watch? And I told him absolutely no,
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  you cannot watch me when I'm having a baby and see all my
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  areas. It's like we're not that close.
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  Was he cute too? No.
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  He was nice. He was, he was nice, but he was
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  like, no, I don't want you to see those parts, right.
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  I want our husbands to see. And they seen everything.
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  So I go in there and my contractions were intensifying.
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  And I knew that when you have a water birth, everybody, we knew
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  that I was going to have a water birth.
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  When I have a water birth, I can't have an epidural.
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  And my contractions were really bad.
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  So I was screaming while they were running the water into the
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  top. I'm like, it's OK, I want an
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  epidural. Just give me an epidural.
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  I don't want a water birth. Anymore you can't.
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  Change your mind. Yeah.
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  And then the midwife looks at me, honey 10cm dilated.
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  You're ready. You know, epidural, it's like.
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  We're lucky if we can't get the bath all the way up for you to
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  have the baby, right? You've already through the
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  worst. Part yes.
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  Put makeup on it, got ready, she's fine.
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  So I was sitting there and they're like, OK, we have to do,
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  you know, your water hasn't broken and we have to pop it.
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  So they have to pop it. And then one of the midwives
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  came and was whispering something into the other
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  midwives ear. And I was like, OK.
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  And I see the door was like half open.
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  And then the midwives like, well, we have a nursing student
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  here, and she was wondering if it would be OK that he could
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  come and assist. And his name is Secret.
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  So I was like, secret. It's OK.
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  Just come in now. I was like, at that point, like,
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  I don't care. I don't want to argue anymore.
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  If you want to be in here, just be in here.
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  But, you know, just be prepared. You're going to see some ugly
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  things happening, and it's not going to be pretty.
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  And I'm not sick of saying yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  He needs to learn. Right, he might as well be me.
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  Yes, he needs to learn. I know.
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  So we made it. The water was on.
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  They were dimming the light. They put like dimming the
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  lights, putting some candles on with aromatherapy.
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  It was really nice ambiance. They put ACD and ACD player.
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  The CD started skipping. Oh no.
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  And I was so agitated. I was like, just switch it up.
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  I don't want it anymore. This is not relaxing.
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  And then I was just like trying to bargain with the with the
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  midwife. I'm like, can we continue
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  tomorrow? It's OK, I can hold out.
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  I don't want to do this right now.
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  Can we take a break? Warm water was just
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  intensifying, amplifying the the pain and the contractions and
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  they were just keep coming every like every 30 wanted.
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  To pause instead of it. Was too much.
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  Just imagine getting your your contractions every 30 seconds to
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  a minute. Like constantly get to.
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  I I don't have time to breathe. It was like it's coming in, it's
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  coming again and then they can't.
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  It had to make me wait too because it was happening so
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  fast. You are ready.
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  I was happening so fast. She's like, stop.
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  I'm like, no, it's there. I could feel she dropped.
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  I could feel her head. She's like, you're too fast.
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  I'm like, no, she's not gonna. And you know that feeling like
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  when you have to go to the bathroom and you're almost there
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  and and then you stop and then goes back in, that feeling with
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  the baby in there. So the head was all the way down
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  there and you could tell if you just push one more time, it's
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  going to be out. And she's like, no, wait.
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  And it's like bloop, hey, what back in?
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  I squeezed it and it's fine. Just tomorrow.
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  I'm curious. Why you had to stop though?
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  She said it was too fast and she didn't want me to RIP.
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  Oh, OK, that. Makes sense?
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  Yeah, she didn't want me to RIP. And she's like, we got to slow
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  down because we need to stretch it a little bit, stretch it a
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  little bit and not like, OK, it will rain.
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  It just stays like that. Did you it?
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  I did, but not, not not a lot, not a lot.
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  So I was there and my my my classmate was there and then one
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  of my friends was there. It was went pretty fast.
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  I had the baby. And I look over and they put
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  Lana on my chest and I was like, oh, thank goodness you did this.
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  I died. She's out.
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  But the first thing I said when I saw her is like, her face is
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  squished. She's got a squishy face.
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  She's like, well, honey, if it goes to a tiny hole like that,
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  it will be a little squish. Stop it.
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  And I look over and my male classmate is like tearing up and
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  having tears running down his face.
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  And I'm like, why are you crying?
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  You didn't do this and you just looked like this is so.
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  This is so special. And thank you for letting me be
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  part of it. I was like, well, I didn't want
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  you to, but OK. But I was like, why are you
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  crying? And then I look over and then my
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  other friend is crying too. And I'm like, why is everybody
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  crying? And I'm just relieved because
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  you don't have the word. And I'm like, retrospect, I, I,
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  I was kind of touched that it would meant so much to them to
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  be a part of it. When the midwives gave me the
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  scissors, she's like, OK, we were gonna you.
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  Have to cut a. Tie cut it.
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  Well then she asked me first and I was looking around and she
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  could see in my head she's like this moment and she gave me the
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  scissors so I would disconnect. I called my best friend earlier
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  when I was on the way and she wasn't able to make it but she
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  heard Lana when she was born because she was still in the
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  lobby so she heard it and I called my sister and she was
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  coming from a different city which is only like 2 1/2 hours
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  away. I told her when I was getting
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  into the contractions she was like okay, how long do you
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  think? And I'm like first time they say
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  about 12 to 18 hours. So if you come to night
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  sometime, take your time, your time 4 hours from first
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  contraction. Fast, yeah.
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  Because, you know, the water was just like so, but it was not
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  messy at all. And until the afterbirth, like a
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  lot of people think, you know, I didn't have any messes coming
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  out. I didn't defecate into the
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  water. I think a lot of women are
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  nervous about that. And they were really smart.
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  I ripped a little bit. They were smart.
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  They put the baby on my chest so that I wasn't even really paying
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  attention. Everything was kind of stretched
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  and feeling weird anyway. So it was, yeah, it was not so
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  bad. The stitches were like, I felt
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  maybe the first one, but then it was like, all a blur and they
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  were soaking the moment. I know.
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  She was. So good.
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  She was quiet, she cried and of course when when she she came
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  out, but after that she was just like very calm.
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  And my best friend arrived and she was the one Iris, the dental
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  surgeon, she was the one who gave Lana her first bath and
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  check up. So there's a very special sugar
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  to do. All that at the.
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  Hospital Owl at the hospital and it was so nice, the hospital
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  where I gave birth, because they knew me and they knew my story.
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  They gave me a private room and they called it the family room
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  because it was a king size bed in there.
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  Just thing yes, I slept. I slept, yes.
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  So there was a king size bed and then the baby how they call it
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  the bassinet. There was a couch in there and
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  my sister arrived at night time so she slept in the bed with me
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  and she was so irritated because she woke up every time they came
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  in to check. With the baby.
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  I laughed. I was like, I was, yeah, I was.
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  I was fine, yeah, but every. 2 minutes when I'm checking I'm
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  like just let me sleep I would be great.
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  It didn't bother me. My goodness, it irritated my
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  sister because she was trying to get her nap in.
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  And I do know, I remember. You're from nursing school.
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  They tell you when the baby is born in the 1st 24 hours, there
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  could be still some amniotic fluid in their lungs.
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  And then if they start getting bluish, you just tip them over a
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  little bit and let them tap on their back and let them cough up
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  the amniotic fluid. Right.
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  So I didn't know this. I knew, I knew that all from
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  nursing school. Like the next morning I was, I
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  was feeding Lana with a bottle. We tried breastfeeding but she
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  didn't really want to latch on. And because I was a single mom
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  and they knew that I need a lot of help from other people,
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  they're like, you know, it's OK, we will try to nurse that we'll
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  bottle P too. So you are in the assumption you
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  have options to give the baby to somebody else help you with
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  everything. So and I was fine with the plan
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  to try to pump and nurse and give the bottle the same time
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  and see whatever works best. So after nurse turn everything,
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  her face started turning blue and all that medical knowledge
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  was my brain. It's like there were just
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  instincts. There was number.
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  There was number common sense anymore.
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  No knowledge anymore. It's just the Mama that's seeing
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  her baby turning blue. And I was hitting that panic
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  button on my button like somebody come any of my baby is
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  turning blue. And the nurses started to come
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  running because, you know, the emergency was on.
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  And then it's like she's blue, she's blue.
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  They just they tapped her over a little bit on her back and let
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  her cough it up. And they're like, Lynn, we
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  talked about this, you know that I'm like.
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  I don't know anything. I'm just I'm just the one thing
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  is that I loved about it with the giving formula instead of
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  the nursing is that she was able to sleep and I know a lot of new
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  moms have problems with sleeping nursing every two hours.
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  I came home the first night while I was sleeping for 10.
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  She was good. She slept bother me and the
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  German doctors, they don't give you Oz or anything like that.
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  I noticed when I came to the United States they're like a
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  specifics like this is how they're supposed to drink.
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  They're like, if they're hungry, give them as much as then we
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  don't want. And she would get herself a good
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  bottle and pass out for 10 hours.
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  Be like, is she OK? Is she OK?
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  No, she, she was asleep. Yeah.
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  She slaps herself into a coma after.
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  Feeding herself. So how long were you at the
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  hospital for? Two nights, two nights I had.
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  Just worked like normal. Time, normal time, everything
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  was great. I had a whole bunch of friends
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  visiting. It was, I was not very
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  germaphobic with the first one for some reason, like with the
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  second one, it was more, but the first one like, yeah, come on,
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  come on. I was very laid back.
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  I was happy that people came to visit.
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  People wanted to meet Lana. There was I did not have any
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  problems with postpartum depression.
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  I know that there's a lot of women struggling with that and I
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  thought because of my situation, being a single mom, that I would
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  be prone to it. But I was blessed that I didn't
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  have that. So with Chloe, was it the same
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  like that's your first? Absolutely not.
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  The first experience, you know, you went through it, single mom,
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  you did it, you conquered it, and then you got pregnant with
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  Chloe, right? Well, you expected the same.
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  Things or I knew I wanted a water birth.
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  The experience of the water birth was so great that I knew
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  that's what I wanted again. So that was the.
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  One thing I had. 2 auto births, yes I wanted it and I got it.
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  So when we so I had Chloe in Texas and I had Lana in Germany.
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  I didn't know if I said Germany earlier, but I had Chloe in the
• 19:54
  United States and Texas. And when we were going through
• 19:58
  the classes and the poor they had a section with water births
• 20:03
  that they were working on but it wasn't open yet.
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  And I was like when are you guys opening that section?
• 20:09
  And there said end of May, possibly June, and Chloe's due
• 20:13
  date was June. 24 they. Have.
• 20:17
  Plenty of. So as long as like the baby's
• 20:21
  supposed to be there around that time, so it should be open,
• 20:24
  right? And like, yeah, I should be.
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  I'm like, OK, as long as that signs up.
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  So. And as a military family, you
• 20:30
  don't really have options to switch around.
• 20:32
  You're going to have the baby in that hospital whether they offer
• 20:34
  it or not. So with Chloe, my in laws came
• 20:40
  from Alabama to Texas and they kind of pinned it out because I
• 20:44
  had Lana 4 four days before due date.
• 20:47
  They're like OK, so she's probably going to be before the
• 20:50
  due date too. So they only had a week time
• 20:52
  because they were working and they took the week off the week
• 20:58
  before my due date off to come visit us.
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  So every night once they came I would get contractions around
• 21:06
  11:00 PM it would start but then they would stop.
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  But every night until due date I'd met in laws we're leaving
• 21:13
  the day after my due date we're. Going to have the baby, going to
• 21:17
  have time. Yes.
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  No, no. Few days after the due date, I
• 21:20
  was having contractions every every day after my due date, I'm
• 21:27
  getting my time. Four days.
• 21:29
  I thought I got Chloe four days after after my due date.
• 21:33
  He's at home. Yes, he's at home.
• 21:35
  He was at home. I was like, wait a minute.
• 21:37
  So he went back. Going back, he was supposed to
• 21:40
  deploy to Afghanistan before the due date, but they were sending
• 21:46
  them out in in different groups. So they were able to push him
• 21:51
  into the later group that is after the due date.
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  OK, OK. He was going to be there for the
• 21:58
  birth for sure. So I had Chloe four days after
• 22:02
  the due date, the day when he when my in laws were leaving and
• 22:07
  their flight was delayed. So they were able to see her for
• 22:10
  two hours. But yeah, my, my contraction
• 22:13
  started at what time did they start?
• 22:17
  At three. OK, 330I think 330.
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  Yeah, 3:30 or 3:30 in the morning.
• 22:22
  And they felt different than the contractions I had before every
• 22:26
  night. So once I started feeling them,
• 22:28
  I'm like, oh, this is it, this is the real deal.
• 22:30
  And Kevin, we had the bag ready. I mean, she was after the due
• 22:34
  date, so we had everything happening.
• 22:36
  And The funny thing is too, they made asked us when we come to
• 22:41
  bring a fishnet, right, Because we're having a water birth.
• 22:45
  So we can fish the baby out. Well, it is because we were
• 22:48
  asking the same. No, it's asking the same things,
• 22:51
  like what do we need the fishnet?
• 22:53
  My mind. I know it's like, well, when you
• 22:55
  you have the water birth, so you need to bring a fishnet and
• 22:58
  Cameron's like, why? And we asked her something why?
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  So I guess if you defecate into the water, you use the fishnet
• 23:07
  to scoop it up. Who does that?
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  Husband. Yeah.
• 23:12
  Hey, that's interesting. You have one job.
• 23:16
  Sir, you have one job not to deprecate.
• 23:19
  Exactly. So yeah, we get into the
• 23:22
  hospital and they were giving me just some IV fluids and my I
• 23:26
  look over to my husband as they were trying to put the needle
• 23:29
  into my arm and he was like, he's turning pale.
• 23:32
  And he is like everybody, I could see it in his face, like
• 23:35
  he's about to pass out. And I tell him you don't.
• 23:39
  I look at no, you're not going to do this.
• 23:41
  This is about me. You're not allowed to pass out.
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  You're going to be there and you're going to.
• 23:45
  You aren't going to endure. Just don't look into the needle.
• 23:47
  Right. Just.
• 23:48
  Looking at the needle from the Ivy going and no, not even going
• 23:51
  inside just. Pressing my getting everything.
• 23:54
  Fracked up getting into. The work yet?
• 23:56
  I know. Yeah.
• 23:59
  So no, he did not pass out. Like he did not pass out.
• 24:05
  So we were able to get into the water.
• 24:08
  Nobody thought just going to, you know, it's fast enough
• 24:11
  because it's just so happening. So they got the water and I got
• 24:14
  in there and they made me move all kinds of positions that when
• 24:17
  I I was on my knees and leaning against the bathtub wall and he
• 24:22
  was like, babe, you just look like a dog that is about to
• 24:25
  poop. I had Chloe in two hours.
• 24:28
  They had contractions at 3:30 and she was born at 5:30.
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  I'm going to have a water birth next time.
• 24:34
  I'm glad that the hospital was closed and I was always joking.
• 24:38
  If I had a third one. I am not going to make it to the
• 24:41
  hospital at like a half long and four hours, Chloe, in two hours.
• 24:45
  The next one I got an hour I was going to be home because I
• 24:48
  better have that bathtub. Ready.
• 24:49
  We'll bring water. It's fine, we'll fill it out.
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  I was like, it was just, it was a really great experience.
• 24:55
  Both of them were really good experiences.
• 24:58
  Whenever people are like very terrified about giving birth,
• 25:02
  I'm like, hey, I am a story because everybody has bad
• 25:05
  stories. How horrible it was, how long it
• 25:08
  took, how much pain there were. I'm like, no, mine was not so
• 25:11
  bad. It wasn't so bad.
• 25:14
  You did it twice. I did.
• 25:15
  It wasn't so bad. It wasn't so bad.
• 25:17
  I mean, yeah, in the moment probably was pretty bad, but now
• 25:21
  because it was so fast, you didn't have to endure the pain
• 25:25
  as long. So.
• 25:26
  And then I was really weird about people touching my baby
• 25:30
  with the second one. With the first one, it was not
• 25:32
  so much. I don't know.
• 25:34
  I kept telling Kevin, somebody comes in, make sure they wash
• 25:36
  their hands and, you know, if they want to, that's cool, Come
• 25:40
  into the room, they're not gonna touch.
• 25:42
  Oh, they're just coming just to come into the room to wash their
• 25:44
  hands. My bad.
• 25:45
  My in laws were allowed to touch the baby.
• 25:48
  Yeah, they were holding the baby and I was like his coworkers and
• 25:52
  everybody. I was like, just make sure they
• 25:54
  wash their hands before they come in.
• 25:56
  I think before that wasn't such a big thing, though, because I
• 25:59
  remember when someone would have a baby, everybody's grabbing the
• 26:02
  baby. Yeah.
• 26:03
  But then with time, I mean, I just had the only four years
• 26:06
  ago, so I already had that awareness was like, no, you want
• 26:09
  people to wash their hands. You want them to wear masks if
• 26:12
  they're feeling sick. And I'm like, OK.
• 26:14
  I'm like, this is stressful, sick.
• 26:15
  I'm not coming in. My in laws flight was delayed
• 26:19
  because they were leaving the day that she was born.
• 26:22
  Oh, they were able to see Chloe for two hours before they had to
• 26:27
  go fly out to Alabama, but they saw them.
• 26:30
  It was funny because it's like 4 days before due date with Lana
• 26:34
  and four days after due date and everybody was born on a
• 26:38
  Saturday. But me like Kevin was born on a
• 26:40
  Saturday, Lana was born on a Saturday, Chloe was born on a
• 26:42
  Saturday. I was born on a Friday.
• 26:44
  Wow, that's close to that's the weekend, so close to yeah, but
• 26:48
  yeah, I think you one one of the fun things that I love to do is
• 26:53
  tell the birth worst stories because they were both great
• 26:55
  experiences came with their own little challenges.
• 26:58
  Thank you so much for sharing your story.
• 27:00
  I know like I said, everybody's different.
• 27:02
  I can't wait for you guys to hear port 3 because mine will be
• 27:06
  very different. And no, it was not a water
• 27:08
  birth. When you hear so many stories,
• 27:10
  right? Yeah.
• 27:10
  And there are options, thankfully, in this day and age.
• 27:14
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