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pokey1984 t1_j1sj7zg wrote

I'll have you know that I was not born screaming.

I was born with the umbilical wrapped around my neck and I wasn't breathing. Mom had to talk my dad through untangling me and breathing for me to get me started.

So, you know, suck on that or whatever.

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GomerStuckInIowa t1_j1sk22h wrote

So you were born in the state of panic?

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pokey1984 t1_j1skh6j wrote

Well, my dad was panicking, that's for sure. My sisters though Mom and Dad were torturing the cat in their bedroom.

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Specific_Tap7296 t1_j1tmvtq wrote

Do you guys not have midwives and hospitals?

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pokey1984 t1_j1tpzto wrote

This was in 1984 in a very rural area. Hospital is a 30 minute drive, minimum. I was Mom's third kid and she ignored signs of impending birth for too long. So she was home, asleep, at 2 in the morning when her water broke. She woke up in a wet bed and thirty minutes later there was a baby. Happens more often than you'd think.

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