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Main Page Site Index Getting Pregnant Pregnancy Parenting Pregnancy and Parenting Journals Fertility Nutrition Pregnant Moms Morning Sickness Women's Health Child Health	Birth Story By Patty Warren       I was due with my first child on December 8, 1995. I Had a doctor's appointment the following week because I still had not had the baby. Well, I woke up Tuesday morning December 13, since about 4 am I was having pains in my lower abdomen but really never thought nothing of it, went to the doctors with my husband and she says that I am in early stages of labour and am dialated 2 centimeters. So we did some last minute Christmas shopping and went home.      That night I kept track of the contractions until they were 5 minutes apart then we headed to town because we live 15 minutes from town. They hooked the heart monitor up the doctor checked me I was 4 centimeters dialated and she asked me if I wanted her to break my water or just wait until it happened, I said if it speeds it up lets break it. This was around 9:30 or 10:00 pm., then I was glad I chose to have that done because it really speeded the labour up, I was having such strong contractions one on top of the other boy did that hurt!       I was glad my husband was there because I really wanted drugs and he kept telling me how great I was doing and just hang on a little longer. In Peace River, they don't do epiderals it is just demorol or laughing gas. I finally said I want something for pain so they checked me and I was 6 cm and they said they can't give anything for pain past that except laughing gas so I said sure!! Well that didn't do anything for me so I stopped using it. I felt my labour was so intense I tuned everything out and had my eyes closed the whole time. Finally, I felt this incredible urge to push so they called my doctor she got there just in time, they wheeled me into delivery I tried to push lying on my side for a while but no luck and I was getting tired. So, I went on my back and in no time the baby came! The most painfull part is definitly the head coming out. She put him on my chest. I opened my eyes and my husband was crying and so was I. We were so happy we had our son. After the delivery I didn't feel any pain I was too excited. I had some bleeding the doctor had to stop and a little tear that needed stiches but it was so worth it and I really can't wait to have another child which we are working on. I gave birth to my son at 1:25 am, December 14, 1995. We also took child birth classes and I did nothing but read books on pregnancy and birth. I think it also helped we both had a positive attitude and outlook on what we wanted for the birth.   Search the Birth Stories Match All Terms Any Term and show results in Standard Form in Compact Form Hint! Enclose phrases in quotes. For example "home birth" [ Return to Section Five Birth Stories Index ]