https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 20 May 2026 14:07:44 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-410445 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:04:17 +0000 autumnlove 410445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I asked my mom about this tonight and it sounds like it her recovery was awful. She had a triple whammy...scheduled C-section, had her tubes tied and her appendix removed at the same time. Yikes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-399064 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:11:29 +0000 mrs. wagon 399064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Some of these stories are making me cry!</p> <p>My mom is really tiny and she had back labor with my older brother all night long. She never progressed enough so they ended up with a c-section. Therefore I was a scheduled c-section. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-399044 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:07:15 +0000 ladyfingers 399044@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not 100% sure, I was adopted, but I have met my birth mother. She was 16 when she had me, and she said I came very quickly. In fact, all her children have been very fast births, so hopefully I got that gene! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398869 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:27:07 +0000 LazyLightning 398869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my mom had severe HG her entire pregnancy. Was unable to work or even move. She says she just sat on the couch and tried not to vomit while my dad fed her pudding. Toward the end she had other issues (doesn't know the medical names) and her eyes got yellow (jaundice). As soon as she was full term they put her entirely under and did a c-section. She vomited for 2 more days (from the med they used to put her under) and then was in the hospital recovering a few more before being sent home. No fun. I am "one" and she was "done"! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398286 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:35:12 +0000 Dapple Grey 398286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was baby number two and I came before my scheduled c-section date in a snowstorm ;) long story short, my mom was hit by a school bus while riding her bike as a little girl..and had her pelvic area destroyed making her unable to ever deliver vaginally. They let her try with her first but it was a no go, so they just had me cesarian. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398244 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:44:01 +0000 mango.sprays 398244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom was a week overdue with me, and scheduled to be induced on a Monday morning. Her water broke (while she was at the beach!) on Saturday afternoon, and I was born Sunday morning. She had an epidural (and is still very happy about that decision!), and claims my Dad was napping in the waiting room within a few minutes of my birth (and is still bitter!). They still argue over whether he cut the cord or not, too...which I find hilarious (the relationship ended less than 2 years later, but they are more than civil). I'm an only child, so that's her only birth story! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398228 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:32:39 +0000 yoursilverlining 398228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents went to Lamaze class and the teacher jokingly told them not to eat pizza in early labor because in her opinion, barfing is common during labor and barfed up pizza smells the worst. I wasn't due to arrive for about 3 more weeks, so my mom had pizza for lunch and liver and onions for dinner. Right after dinner, she went into labor. When they got to the hospital, my mom was throwing up and she swears that all the nurses left the room while she was barfing. My dad went to run too, but she gave him "the eye". She labored hard for over 30 hours before I was born. I was just under 5lbs but she said my birth was much harder and more painful than my brother; who was a big old bruiser of a baby. My mom hemroged after I was born and needed an emergency blood transfusion. Even though I was little I didn't have to go to the NICU. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398194 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:05:00 +0000 prettylizy 398194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know much, I just know that both times she had epidurals. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398121 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:09:58 +0000 Pepper 398121@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With me, my mom got out of bed in the morning and her water broke. She and my dad went to the hospital, and she was admitted. She labored for a long time, and for whatever reason she just wasn't able to push me out. They had to do a c-section (which she wasn't expecting). </p> <p>With my brother, they scheduled her for a c-section, so she actually picked his birthday. She told me a long time ago that having a c-section was great, because she hated laboring! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398087 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:41:00 +0000 Mrs. Pen 398087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually know all my siblings birth stories better than my own hahaha! I arrived on my due date and she was only in labor for 6-8 hours I think. It think it was pretty uneventful?? She was team green, if I'd been a boy my name would have been Levi and if I was a girl it would be Noelle. I was born in Sept. though and my grandma threw a stink that Noelle is a Dec. baby name haha so she changed it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-398078 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:34:01 +0000 lovehoneybee 398078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cokiezombie: that's basically my mom's story for me! Had to drive clear on the other side of town during evening rush hour and was 10 cm when she got to the hospital! </p> <p>She said my oldest brothers' births (twins) were traumatic because one was breech and posterior. The other twin came out first and the doctor reached in, grabbed the foot of the other one and pulled him out! And she had no drugs with any of us. </p> <p>She said my other brother's birth is hazy, just remembers that it was really fast.</p> <p>ETA: Oh, and I was 18 days late! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397970 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:13:25 +0000 JessicaMcB 397970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was my mom's first and was two days late. She went to the hospital with "a slight stomach ache" because my Nan forced her to thinking she was in early labor. When my mom got there she was 8cms dialated and had no idea. I was born naturally with no epi about a half hour later. She contends to this day that having a baby is no worse than having a large bm and is not painful...</p> <p>As someone who had to cave and get the epidural 16 hours into my induction I have to disagree with her lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397965 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:09:32 +0000 cokiezombie 397965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love all these stories!! Thanks for sharing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397873 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:17:46 +0000 MsInformation 397873@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom's water broke on the evening of Dec. 24 and everyone was sure I was going to be a Christmas baby. Instead, I was born (vaginally) at 11:43 pm that night - breech, with the cord wrapped around my neck. It all happened really fast and my dad never made it into the room - they were keeping him out in case things got really hairy with an emergency c-section.</p> <p>I was a wee 5 lbs 5 oz and the nurses put me in a Christmas stocking! And while I wasn't a Christmas baby, my dad and I do share a birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397837 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:52:57 +0000 JerricaBenton 397837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom was in labor with me for something insane like 2 days. She tried all the fancy (at the time) things like a birthing chair and a birthing ball but nothing worked. She remembers all the TV shows she watched at the hospital. She ended up having to have a C-section but by that time she was relieved to have me out! She had a scheduled C with my brother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397825 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:45:35 +0000 Pink Champagne 397825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When my mom went into labor with me, my dad got up, showered, shaved, and asked my mom, "Do you think I have time to feed the animals?" (We lived on a farm) She screamed "NO!!", they dropped my 2 year old brother off at my grandmas, and I was born 45 minutes after they got to the hospital.<br /> For those ladies who are wondering if labor time is genetic, my labor start to finish was 6 hours from water breaking to baby being born, which is apparently faster than my mom when she had me or my brother (her labor with him was super fast too).<br /> Oh, and my whole life my mom told me how she "breathed you and your brother out, and you can do the same thing when you have kids" so it never crossed my mind to have anything other than a 100% all natural birth (which I did). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397741 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:55:11 +0000 Cherrybee 397741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBear: Her name was Nurse Dan (back then you called them by their last names). My mum said she was really strict - but she's never forgotten her. I suppose we're both grateful, really. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397739 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:53:26 +0000 BabyBear 397739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cherrybee: Wow, that's intense. I'm so glad your mom was able to find that connection with you because of the RN! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397734 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:50:55 +0000 Cherrybee 397734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mum's birth story is just plan weird!! I'm not really sure what to make of it all!</p> <p>She smoked 80 cigarettes a day (I know, right, how?!!) and ate only cornflakes while she was pregnant with me (she says it was the happiest she's ever been and I resist the urge to say "how could you do this?"). She developed GD and a few other problems so they hospitalised her at 7 months pregnant.</p> <p>A couple of weeks later, she was watching Roots (you know, that very serious series about slavery) and says she was laughing so hard (I know right? Plain weird) and that made her go into labour. </p> <p>I was born 6 weeks premature, at 5lb something, bright yellow with jaundice and had to be whipped away for a blood transfusion for some reason or other. My mum still doesn't know why, she never thought to ask. I was put in an incubator in the neonatal unit....</p> <p>Anyway, she then decided I wasn't her baby and refused to hold me or feed me. Days went by and the nurses looked after me while my mum cried and cried (I guess it was PPD but they didn't talk about that kind of thing back then). Then, one night, in the middle of the night, a really strict nurse went to my mum's bed and woke her up, saying "Your baby is crying. She needs you". My mum protested that I wasn't actually her baby because she felt no bond etc and the nurse wouldn't take no for an answer - she wheeled my mum down to the Neonatal unit in a wheelchair, put me in my mum's arms and left us. I stopped crying and my mum said "Hello. I'm your mum". I cry every time she tells me that bit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397705 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:36:35 +0000 MrsRcCar 397705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>While my mom was pregnant with me, she waited tables at a little diner. Her water broke at home and she called the doctors office. The nurses at the office told her that she likely just peed herself. She continued to lose fliud over the next couple hours and then she started to have "minor" cramps. When she finally arrived at the hospital her doctor was really upset that she was going to have a "dry" birth, and yelled at her about not coming in when her water broke. She yelled back at him about his nurses telling her otherwise. As labor progressed she received at Epidural and pitocin. Her contractions wouldn't relax and she was miserable. When they checked her she was all the way thinned out but was not dilating past 8. With the contractions unable to relax my heart rate dropped into the 40's 4 times. My mom demanded they just go in to get me before I died. My mom was wheeled down to surgery for an Emergancy C-Section. When they got me out I had the cord wrapped around my neck twice and around my elbow. I was rushed to the NICU for a day or so, just until they were sure I would breath on my own. 15 months later my brother arrived rather quickly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397618 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:07:56 +0000 boiledpnut 397618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hergreenapples: Right? I hope I have an easy labor like my mom or some of these other moms! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397589 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:59:00 +0000 heartonastring 397589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I swear that my mum has forgotten anything negative relating to her pregnancy and labour and delivery. I was her only child/pregnancy so maybe it's easier to forget if you've only had one?!</p> <p>She was one week overdue and it was a Monday. She likes to tell me that I let her have the weekend to relax and prepare. On Monday morning she awoke around 7 a.m. to a mild contraction (or as she says, "Yeah, I think I remember having a small cramp"). She went to the hospital around 1 p.m. They broke her water for her and she got an epidural. I was born at 5:15 p.m. All in all, a pretty easy L&amp;D! The nurses told her it was a textbook delivery. I'm hoping it's genetic! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397585 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:57:29 +0000 boiledpnut 397585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When my mom was pregnant, they didn't do ultrasounds until late in the pregnancy. Well, she went into labor the night before her ultrasound. She was only 30 weeks pregnant. She started having contractions around 11, water broke and 12 and had my sister shortly after 2. Of course, she was still in horrible pain and asked what was going on. Little did she know she was pregnant with twins! I came out 5 minutes later. She didn't have any pain meds or anything like that, but we were really small anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397548 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:41:35 +0000 Minnie_Girl 397548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mom had very normal, unmedicated births for the first three. Babies #1 and 2 were textbook. Baby #3 was so easy she hardly knew she was in labor!</p> <p>Baby #4 wasn't as good of an experience...she had some premature labor, and the doc put her on pitocin instead of trying to stop it. According to mom, the pitocin contractions were WAY worse than any natural labor she'd experienced. </p> <p>Baby #5 was a c-section because of a nuchal hand. That was the worst for her and much harder to recover from (esp. with four other kids to take care of). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397509 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:25:51 +0000 Alivoo01 397509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When my mom was pregnant with me, all I allowed her to eat was steak and seafood. She also went bowling every week up until birth week! She had a really long labor with me before they decided to have a c-section. I apparently showed preference on which side of her belly I stayed in because her belly was super lopsided. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397508 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:25:15 +0000 KT326 397508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 7 months pg my mom started spotting and having back pain. She went to the doctor and the placenta was starting to separate from the uterine wall. She was rushed to the hospital for an emergency c-section. I was 8 weeks early. The hospital in our hometown could not accommodate a preemie so I was rushed by ambulance to one of the bigger hospitals, my dad went with me. Luckily I was breathing on my own that night and only spent one week in the NICU. I was sent back to my hometown hospital where I spent another 3 weeks. My mom didn't get to hold me until I was a week old, I only weighed 3 lbs. Its a scary story but luckily everything turned out okay. Oh and my 6 year old sister was also in the hospital at that time, she had just been diagnosed with Type I diabetes. My poor dad was all over the place for awhile. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397499 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:22:50 +0000 BabyBear 397499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only really know my birth story with an exception of a few stories told about my four younger brothers.</p> <p>My mom was in labor for 17 hours. She told me she laying on the couch in pain with contractions while everyone else was having dinner. They laugh about it now, but she was pretty upset at the time. My grandmom told me "there was no need to rush. They would have just sent her home anyways." During delivery - I decided that I wanted to come out shoulder first. They had a hard time repositioning me and I came out sunny side up (face upwards). My aunt always says "and the first thing I saw was a piece of your carrot red hair sticking up! It's was the first thing I pointed out."</p> <p>I'm not sure if she had any medication or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397496 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:21:52 +0000 78h2o 397496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom's water broke at 34 weeks when she was in an elevator. She went to the hospital and was induced - I think with pitocin, but I'm not sure. She labored for 17 hours and had me without pain meds. Doesn't surprise me though as she has a high pain tolerance. </p> <p>Interesting how many of us were born sans epidurals! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397482 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:15:40 +0000 sarac 397482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Natural birth, in hospital. She was also a huge La Leche League-r. When my sister and I became interested in natural birth (pregnant at the same time) we learned that ton of the women in our family had been interested in natural birth and breastfeeding and all that in the 70s and 80, when it was so much rarer. It was so cool to be able to bond with them about something that was really subversive and underground in their era. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-your-moms-birth-story#post-397328 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:32:51 +0000 rachiecakes 397328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>me: my mom said she felt like she had a stomach bug and could not sleep before going into labor. she had an epidural and I was born with the help of forceps.<br /> my brother: she said she felt "off" during the day and when my dad got home from work they took me (2 years old) to my grandmother's, they checked into the hospital at 6pm and my (10lb!) brother was born 20 minutes later, no chance of an epidural.<br /> both times she said contractions weren't intense or regular until she was just minutes from delivery, which is funny because although I had contractions, I didn't really feel like they were contractions until my water broke in the hospital and I had back labor, I felt that! haha </p>