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Mom Gives Birth in Her Pants

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jun 10th 2009 2:00PM

One surprised mom found a baby in her pants leg. Image: Corbis.
We've all heard stories of incredibly quick births that happen in the most unexpected places. Sometimes these impatient babies make their grand entrances while mom is at home, in a ...
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Share your birth story in six words or less

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Apr 12th 2008 11:00AM

"Touch me again and I'll bite." If you had asked me -- in the middle of active labor -- to share my birth story, the above sentence would have summed it up nicely. But immediately afterward, with the product of that long, hard, messy, but ...
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Woman who performed her own c-section does not recommend it

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Jan 2nd 2008 2:31PM

This is kind of old news -- Ines Ramirez performed a c-section on herself back in 2000 -- but this is the first I'd heard of it, and I feel compelled to share. Eight years ago, 40-year-old Ines Ramirez was alone in her cabin in a remote area of ...
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Mamaloo's amazing birth story

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Jul 12th 2007 11:34AM

If you don't read Momcast, you might recall Susan Wagner writing about ParentDish reader and frequent commenter Mamaloo live-blogging her birth. On a slow day at the office, I decided to check back in and find out what happened. Lo and behold, a ...
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Pregnant woman crashes car and gives birth

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 14th 2006 8:00PM

Some of us have some delivery room war stories to share, but it is likely that Kenyetta Biggs can top nearly all of them. While trying to drive herself to the emergency room in the early hours of Sunday morning, she experienced an especially hard ...
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Birth stories: read them, share them

by Melissa Summers, Posted Apr 24th 2006 3:03PM

Pam C. has sent me this site where people can read birth stories and share their own. As she puts it, "Because remembering when you pooped on the delivery table isn't as entertaining as reading about someone else doing it." I couldn't ...
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