Sugar, spice and everything nice. CHEMICAL X WHAT NO NO NO

[Miss Mae]

Alive-Man: I'm glad you made it through your birth alive, man.

My birth was relatively easy, apparently. My mum woke up early in the morning, read a book for a few hours and only bothered waking Dad once the contractions were closer together. Drove to the hospital and had me a couple of hours later. And that is the one and only time I haven't been a massive inconvenience!

[Quindiana Jones]

I came out screaming "DYNAMIC ENTRY!" and crescent kicked the doctor in the jaw.

[Loony BoB]

Apparently I took something like 11 hours. There was a slight debate over my time of birth because it was right in the middle of daylight savings changing.

[Alive-Cat]

Apparently I took something like 11 hours. There was a slight debate over my time of birth because it was right in the middle of daylight savings changing.

So in a way, you may not even exist? Please don't go anywhere. We need you.

Alive-Man: I'm glad you made it through your birth alive, man.

So am I. I am so glad we are all here to enjoy each other on EoFF. Hearing all of your stories makes me realise how precious we all are and lucky to have one and other.

Did your parents not give you "the talk" alive man?

No

[Jess]

I was born blue in the face, being choked by the umbilical cord. Other than that, I imagine that I caused my mum hell for however long her labour lasted. I've never really asked for any of the gruesome details. xD

[theundeadhero]

I didn't want to go. It was so nice and warm in there and everything was cozy with safeness. Then they cut a hole in my mom and made me come out anyway. I'll never forgive them. Tt was even two weeks early.

[black orb]

>>> All I know is that I was not born into a rich family ..

[Jiro]

>>> All I know is that I was not born into a rich family ..

This is about all I know also! There is also fact that I was unreasonably and dangerously small.

[Shiny]

Also incidentally I looked very Asian, so there was some suspicion that I was even her child even though I did in fact just come out of mother's womb.

[maybee]

Nope. Not good at all.


I had the umbilical cord around my neck and almost chocked me to death.


I was born purple- from the choking and lack of air.

I was born blue in the face, being choked by the umbilical cord.

woot

almost died from the umbilical cord buddies ????

[noxious.sunshine]

I was 7 lbs I think. And quite possibly my mom didn't get an epidural. I can't remember if she told me that or not. It was a big deal though. My dad had been gone in the truck and when he finally got to where he was unloading, a dispatcher told him he needed to call home immediately.. He dead headed (meaning driving without a trailer) back to home, missing 2 sets of scales that were open, Then jumped in their car to get to the hospital and the engine caught fire on the way there. Yep.

My little girl's birth was rough. They'd given me ambient the night before, then induced me early the next morning... Then they gimme Demerol like twice cuz I was in so much pain.. They gave me a lol bit more right before giving me the epidural.. And then wound up refilling the epidural bag. I still felt everything. It was Hell. And the doctor didn't bother snipping my va-jay-jay, she just let it rip on its own. Annnnnnd I didn't find out until a few days after that the umbilical cord was wrapped around my daughter's neck twice. Lol I was begging the Dr to use the vacuum and get it over with by the end though. .... Oh. And I was on oxygen most of the time. And my sister asked for a tent. Like they do with c-sections haha.

But! Out of 17 total women, I was the only mother to have given birth normally. Without needing a c-section. The nurses were all so proud of me.

[Alive-Cat]

The nurses were all so proud of me.

Not as proud as I am! You birthed great and damn good by the sounds of it

[Pike]

I was born with a heart that was backwards and had a hole in it. It also promptly grew to the size of a full grown man's heart because it was working overtime to overcome the leak and feed blood to my body. I was saved by poison (literally - foxglove stops your heart, so they gave me just enough to slow it down) and some other potent chemicals and then a blood clot stopped up the hole.

To this day all the tubing and wiring in my heart is backwards, though.

edit: also my mom is SUPER blonde and I was born with a headful of super dark hair so everywhere we went people thought that I was adopted from Korea or something

[Alive-Cat]

I was born with a heart that was backwards and had a hole in it. It also promptly grew to the size of a full grown man's heart because it was working overtime to overcome the leak and feed blood to my body. I was saved by poison (literally - foxglove stops your heart, so they gave me just enough to slow it down) and some other potent chemicals and then a blood clot stopped up the hole.

To this day all the tubing and wiring in my heart is backwards, though.

edit: also my mom is SUPER blonde and I was born with a headful of super dark hair so everywhere we went people thought that I was adopted from Korea or something

That is crazy, I'm very glad they were able to sort that stuff out! Doctors do smart things.

[BustaMo]

Obviously I don't remember a thing about it. I'm not even sure I had a memory before age 2. I've heard from my parents that I was born very early in the morning and it was a 2-day labor formy mother. Not anything bad I don't think, but I was her first kid so it was all new to her. I was a smaller baby out of all 3 of my siblings. That's really all I know. 1986 was a long time ago lol