WEBVTT 00:00:00.449 --> 00:00:03.907 Yeah. All your cousins and aunts and uncles say, oh, when are you gonna 00:00:03.940 --> 00:00:09.967 have a baby? When are you gonna have a baby? And I was 18, 18. Mhm. And I 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.997 was married five years before we had any Children. And that was in 47. It 00:00:17.030 --> 00:00:23.727 seems like I, I'll swear I carried my son 10 months cause I kept going 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:31.596 back to the doctor and saying, why, why? Well, that uh October Day, we 00:00:31.629 --> 00:00:36.926 walked, everybody walked, nobody had a car, you know, and uh I was 00:00:36.959 --> 00:00:42.186 downtown to the doctor and he told me to go buy it a two ounce bottle of 00:00:42.219 --> 00:00:50.219 castor oil and gobble it down and it worked, work to induced labor. I 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:59.996 didn't have any problems with my son. But two years later, my daughter, I 00:01:00.029 --> 00:01:05.706 had more problems with her. And my, my daughter was born in July so it was 00:01:05.739 --> 00:01:12.456 hot. And I do remember many days putting a tub of water on the floor and 00:01:12.489 --> 00:01:16.635 putting your feet in the water because of the fact that you swell, your 00:01:16.668 --> 00:01:22.555 feet swelled. So. Mhm. And those days nobody had air conditioning in your 00:01:22.588 --> 00:01:28.436 houses, you know. So you try to get cool by putting your feet in the, in 00:01:28.469 --> 00:01:34.605 the tub. It seemed like my belly didn't go back, you know, it was drooping 00:01:34.638 --> 00:01:40.467 over and so forth and my back was killing me. And I have some Polish aunts 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:44.406 and they gave me this corset. 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:49.826 It was, yeah, big, you know about this big strings, like the, like you see 00:01:49.859 --> 00:01:53.837 in the movies, you know, string, you pull the strings and, and you tighten 00:01:53.870 --> 00:02:00.186 the belt and so forth and it was a to wear this corset during pregnancy. 00:02:00.219 --> 00:02:05.337 And if, if it, if you got too much here, you know, you could loosen it 00:02:05.370 --> 00:02:11.525 there and just by adjusting the strings or the straps. But it was a 00:02:11.558 --> 00:02:17.797 blessing because it kills your back. And especially if you are, are weak 00:02:17.830 --> 00:02:22.797 in your back anyways, you know, and, and your muscles are weak from 00:02:22.830 --> 00:02:25.305 childbirth. 00:02:25.338 --> 00:02:31.606 My uh husband got a call from uh Oklahoma that his father had just passed 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:38.626 away and didn't wanna go because I was late already for delivery. But I 00:02:38.659 --> 00:02:44.457 said no, go because of the fact that you will see your child. We, we 00:02:44.490 --> 00:02:49.316 didn't know if it was boy or girl. Nobody knew nothing about that but you 00:02:49.349 --> 00:02:54.427 won't see your father again. So he went there and sure enough that night, 00:02:54.460 --> 00:03:01.207 my mother came, I had known I didn't realize it at the time until later I 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:06.297 told my mother, I said something wrong with my corset. The child had 00:03:06.330 --> 00:03:13.085 dropped and it was loose where, wherever it was, I don't know, it was 00:03:13.118 --> 00:03:18.525 loose and I said, tighten these straps up, you know. And then I realized, 00:03:18.558 --> 00:03:25.207 oh, it's because of the droppage of the child. But we were maybe 15 miles 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:31.116 or something like that to the hospital. And of course, uh, the labor was 00:03:31.149 --> 00:03:38.286 not so pleasant, you know. But, um, it just seemed like a long ways. Mhm. 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:45.717 This town only had one hospital and I don't remember going in or anything. 00:03:45.750 --> 00:03:53.047 But I do know that it's, uh, maybe four or five stories and that you were 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:59.656 put in with other women, not, not by yourself and laying in bed and the 00:03:59.689 --> 00:04:04.217 nurses come in and of course they'd shave you first check your vitals. But 00:04:04.250 --> 00:04:09.596 remember being in the bed and hurting like heck, they knock us out, you 00:04:09.629 --> 00:04:14.055 know, those days they knock you out. That's how they did it. It's, uh, I 00:04:14.088 --> 00:04:19.627 mean, so that's all blank. And I, and you really didn't come out of it 00:04:19.660 --> 00:04:26.976 until you were in the, your own bed at the hospital. And, uh, the baby was 00:04:27.009 --> 00:04:30.836 somewhere else. You didn't see the baby right away. You know, I don't know 00:04:30.869 --> 00:04:36.336 how long it was but in the movies they put it on your chest right away, 00:04:36.369 --> 00:04:43.555 you know. No, none of that. So, my, my husband was an only child and 00:04:43.588 --> 00:04:51.036 definitely did not want to raise an only child. So, we were very fortunate 00:04:51.069 --> 00:04:58.838 that. We got the second one but, uh, I could never get pregnant after that.