I have to say that with both my kids I would not have wanted a cast of family members waiting around in the hospital for me to give birth. No need for it and not their place. It was very nice after each birth they came to visit. Of course with both kids' birth once they got the call I was on the way to the hospital it would have been too late for them to make the birth. DS 10 minutes, DD 20 minutes.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
She must be at the hospital now ... no updates anymore!
(Also, to note, even though I have no children I can imagine that having my family kicking around the entire time would drive me nuts. Even worse if it was inlaws!)
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” ― Maya Angelou
I remember being in the room around visiting hours the evening of the day Caitlyn was born.
We were all talking, I watched my dad count fingers and toes, took a picture of my mawmaw holding the baby, and eating dirty rice from Bojangles, and then everyone started to sound like every adult on the Peanuts cartoons.
I couldn't understand a word anyone was saying, myself included.
The nurse came to get the baby, I crashed.
Slept all night.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I remember being in the room around visiting hours the evening of the day Caitlyn was born.
We were all talking, I watched my dad count fingers and toes, took a picture of my mawmaw holding the baby, and eating dirty rice from Bojangles, and then everyone started to sound like every adult on the Peanuts cartoons.
I couldn't understand a word anyone was saying, myself included.
The nurse came to get the baby, I crashed.
Slept all night.
Well with both kids, I had no drugs or epidural. Probably that is the difference.
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I didn't have anything with Caitlyn, well, they gave me a shot of stadol around 5 centimeters.
Of course, I think it might had more to do with how long I had been up at that time.
I got up Saturday around 10 am, Caitlyn was born at 6:32 Sunday morning, by 8 Sunday night, I was done.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
They got half of the test bag of epidural in me before Aaron was born.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
Did I mention I was in labor with DS for 2 hours, none heavy until I arrived at the hospital where he was born 8 minutes later? Or with DD didn't know I was in labor and she was born 20 minutes after arrival at the hospital? Go ahead, hate me.
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