Carrie12345 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 My nephew was born about 6am. In a parking lot. ? After waiting over an hour to hear that mom and baby were officially safe and sound, and receiving a picture of her shocked face in the ambulance, I was able to laugh and laugh. She had been sent home from the birthing center just a few hours earlier. 25 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Glad everyone is doing well. Exciting story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthwestMom Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Congratulations! That will be an excellent story for mom and child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Kate Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Oh my...that would be quite a shock! I’d like to be a fly on the wall to witness her conversation with the birthing center- lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 One of my nieces was born in the hospital parking garage. My sil's mother drove the wrong way up the ramps, when my brother jumped out to get help, sil's mother took off to find someone else. My 2 yo neice was strapped in the car seat in the back seat. An oncology nurse going off duty hear my sil screaming, kneeling in the front seat. Nurse struggled to get the door unlocked. When nurse finally got in the car, she said "Let me take a look" and out squirted a baby. 3 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 I hope little Asphalt is doing well! 2 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kassia Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Wow, what a story! Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brehon Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 My number 5 was born in the van on the way to the hospital. Hell of a biology lesson for her siblings. 5 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahm Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 That's why we switched to home birth. Baby 1 was close to being born in the triage area, and I really didn't want a parking lot/side of the road delivery (which baby 3 would have been!) Nothing against doctors or hospitals; I'd just rather have the midwife in my prepared home than only my husband in a not-prepared location. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
school17777 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 @Carrie12345 was the baby born in her car or the ambulance? What an exciting story for that child to tell in the future! I had a friend who had two home births due to lack of insurance. For her third child, she had insurance and was excited to have a hospital birth. Baby was born at the house before she could get to the hospital. She’s a strong woman- the kind who has a baby on a Friday and is at church on Sunday serving as usual. Anyway, the kicker was the hospital still charged her for the birth because they didn’t know how to charge just for her showing up after the baby was born. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 Just now, school17777 said: @Carrie12345 was the baby born in her car or the ambulance? What an exciting story for that child to tell in the future! I had a friend who had two home births due to lack of insurance. For her third child, she had insurance and was excited to have a hospital birth. Baby was born at the house before she could get to the hospital. She’s a strong woman- the kind who has a baby on a Friday and is at church on Sunday serving as usual. Anyway, the kicker was the hospital still charged her for the birth because they didn’t know how to charge just for her showing up after the baby was born. He was born in the car. I'm not sure when in the process our mom called the ambulance. They had gone to the birthing center in the middle of the night, but the midwife insisted there was no reason for her to be there yet. Baby Boy disagreed!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachyDoodle Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 I was so afraid this would happen to me with ds! I was already 6cm dilated before I went into labor and had a 45 minute drive to the hospital. My doc said, "If your water breaks, don't come here. Go straight to the nearest ED." That was 8 years ago today! ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Wow. What a story!! Congratulations. My last was born at home because my 2nd labor ws 4 hours from me eating a PBJ sandwich at 4 am thinking something feels different today, to holding my baby in my arms. We planned a home birth for our 3rd because we felt it safer to have the baby here (with a trained midwife who had me calling her any time I felt "different') than on the side of the road somewhere. Good thing because it was less than 2 hours between calling my midwife at 4 am because I just felt "different" to me having the baby in my arms. When she said she was on her way I thought it was overkill. No sooner than I hung up the phone did the roller coaster go past the point of no return and sped along at 90 miles per hour. There is no way dh could have even gotten me into a car. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 I had a friend who delivered at home (accidentally) assisted by her 14yo ds who was on the phone with 9-1-1. She said she had a bit of an upset stomach, sat down on her (white) couch and 10 minutes later asked her ds to bring her the phone because she was going to call her dh. Her water broke while she was talking so she hung up on her dh, she called 9-1-1 and handed the phone to her ds. The baby arrived before the ambulance. I almost didn't make it with #3. I woke up at 3am at 36 weeks (after being on bed-rest with pre-term labor since week 20) feeling uncomfortable. Called the on-call doctor who "guaranteed" I wasn't in labor. He said I would only embarrass myself by going in & having to go home. It was about a 35 minute drive, so Dh hustled me out the door and my the time we got in through the emergency entrance I was in transition & everyone was yelling "Don't Push!" Dd arrived in the hall between the emergency room and the elevator, with me half- sitting on a gurney, a nurse kneeling on the gurney with me & the doctor, who said I wasn't in labor, running down the hall toward us. He apologized profusely. He said I was too calm and because I could talk, I clearly wasn't in enough pain to be in labor. Babies have their own time table. Congratulations, Auntie! Amber in SJ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 That’s a fun story! So pushing with my last three vaginal deliveries, thankfully all planned homebirths, was super fast. My waters broke with the babies still high, and I was holding them each about twenty minutes later. My last labor was only an hour and a quarter and three pushes, and that was with less than ideal positioning. A homebirth is ill-advised this time. Induction is planned for around 39 weeks. Thankfully, four out of my five spontaneous births have been after 40 weeks, so the likelihood of going into labor before induction is slim. But I live 45 minutes from the hospital and over an hour during rush hour. Every one of my labors has started in the wee morning hours. A car birth is very, very possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 I have a friend with five kids and fast labors. She's had ONE inside the hospital delivery room. She had one in an IKEA, one in the hospital parking lot, one in the car after they pulled over in route to the hospital, and one in the elevator of the hospital 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 I'm pretty jealous of all these fast labor stories! I would have willingly given birth in a public bathroom if it meant shaving a few hours off labor. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 8 minutes ago, katilac said: I'm pretty jealous of all these fast labor stories! I would have willingly given birth in a public bathroom if it meant shaving a few hours off labor. I was just sitting here thinking how jealous I am if these quick labor stories. I have long, long, long labors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halftime Hope Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 I had all homebirths, about 9hours labor with the first, and then last came in a very overdue rush, beating the midwife by a few minutes, but 21 days past his very well known due date. I'm pretty upset at how dd's first birth went, but I'm keeping my mouth shut because she doesn't seem upset about it, and she's got to think, process, and ultimately own what happened and do differently next time, if that's what she wants. (She had unnecessary medical interventions due to the medical professionals she chose.) In any case, she went from 2cm to birth in 90 minutes, as a primip. But interestingly, baby girl had been very, very well engaged from early in the pregnancy, never floated, flipped or turned, so when dd's water broke, that's was it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, xahm said: That's why we switched to home birth. Baby 1 was close to being born in the triage area, and I really didn't want a parking lot/side of the road delivery (which baby 3 would have been!) Nothing against doctors or hospitals; I'd just rather have the midwife in my prepared home than only my husband in a not-prepared location. Yep. That was our thought process for #4. We made it to the hospital for #3 within single digit minutes of his birth... It's not that unusual. I had a friend deliver in the hospital foyer & one almost in the hospital lift. Congrats to your family op, glad that mum and bub are both well! Edited October 27, 2018 by LMD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 12 hours ago, katilac said: I hope little Asphalt is doing well! That’s gonna be an unfortunate nickname when they shortened it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acresoft Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lulalu Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 What a story! That will be one shared for years and years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 On 10/26/2018 at 11:21 PM, maize said: I was just sitting here thinking how jealous I am if these quick labor stories. I have long, long, long labors. I've done both. DS 19 was over 40 hours of labor. DD 1 was 2 hours, maybe a bit less. Honestly, the 40 hour one was easier in a lot of ways, you have time to stay ahead of the pain...it ramps up gradually. The 2 hour one I was basically dropped directly into transition. It was so so intense. My midwife said that the short ones have all the pain of the long ones, just all at once. BUT...I will say that recovery was easier with that short one just because I wasn't exhausted. (other labors were 9 hours and 10 hours). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 With my second they insisted I wasn't in labour but said they would give me pethidine and I could sleep as I was alone there and a bit irrational. He was born 4 hours later although after they gave me an epidural I slept an hour or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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