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What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?
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I delivered my own child. Wife went for a snooze and somehow woke up deep in labour. No way we were going to make the hospital. Young and very nervous sounding lad talked me through it on the phone. I was glad it wasn't my first time experiencing the birthing process because that took a lot of stress out of it.
There were no complications and it all went smoothly. She's 16 now.
At the time I was mod of a parenting community that nearly lost it's shit hahaha.
The fire brigade arrived about two minutes after the baby.
On the very same day my son's best friend's parents had to deliver their baby on the side of the road because they didn't make the hospital!
This is awesome.
It very nearly happened to me as well with our first. My wife went into labor around 1am and she felt things were going quickly. Triage just told her to take a bath and take it easy as it could be hours. She woke me up around 4am and said we need to go. We get in the car and make it to the hospital. The triage nurse was really dismissive of my wife... That is until she examined her... My wife was fully dilated and effaced. Our little boy was born 45 minutes later. He is 18 and in college now.
That's crazy! I have heard similar stories on first where staff are dismissive though. First ones are usually slower so they build this silly assumption. My poor niece was over 24 hours. Nightmare!
We had two more after that and both times they brought her in early to induce so she wouldn't have a repeat "unscheduled home delivery" haha.
Similar here. Our second was scheduled for induction and he decided to come 2 weeks earlier than that!
Side story on the birth of our first. My wife's OB/Gyn actually made it to the delivery. When she entered my wife asked her if she could have an epidural... The OB/Gyn replied; "You're going to have a baby, not an epidural." My wife was too far along and getting an epidural might have set things back. So yeah, she delivered our first old school.
Our second there was enough time for an epidural, but the anesthesiologist had a heck of time getting the needle in. He shook his head and said if it doesn't go in this time I need to stop... Fortunately he was able to hit the right spot, so her second delivery was a lot easier.