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 Well, it was hot. I had two summer babies. So it was very hot. Both times.

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I really never thought of my
pregnancy. I gained £80 because I wanted to

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eat what I wanted to. And, um, I
didn't think of myself while I was

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working and taking care of my parents.
So I just ate and took it day by

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day. And by the end of my pregnancy, I
was so overweight. It was

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uncomfortable in the heat. My first
baby, I woke up in the morning and I

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felt strange. It wasn't a physical,
strange. It was a mental, strange and

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I couldn't figure out what was wrong
because she wasn't due for a couple

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of weeks. But she was born on a blue
moon which made her come early. A

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blue moon is two moons and two full
moons in one month. And so, um, that

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day I started to feel very strange
mentally and I couldn't shake it. And

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then a short time later I went into
labor and like I said, I wasn't due

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for another two weeks and I couldn't
get a hold of him. You know, we

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didn't have cell phones, like we did.
Now, it wasn't, it wasn't easy to

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get a hold of you. And so I called the
doctor and they told me to get in

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right away that I in fact was in
labor. So I said that I would wait for my

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husband and three hours later they
called me, they said we really want you

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to get in here. But I was afraid to go
to the hospital without him. So he

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finally came home. He was so excited.
We went to the doctor's office and

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they told him to get the car to drive
me across the street to the hospital

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and he got the car and he went to the
other end of the parking lot and

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they said, where is he? And I looked
out at the parking lot and there he

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was way on the south end of the lot
just sitting in the car. He didn't

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know what to do because he had gone
into shock. I felt bad and I went out

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to the parking lot and I started to
wave him over to me and he drove over

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and he was like a deer in the
headlights. It was really kind of scary

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looking. I got in the car and I helped
him get me to the hospital and, um

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, he stayed with me through the whole
thing and I, I delivered, I think it

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was at 10 o'clock that night. And when
she was born, it was really not

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only the fact that she was first born,
but she came like she had been here

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before she reached up and touched the
doctor's face. And when they put her

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in Leon's arms,

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she reached up and touched his face
like she knew him. And I turned my, my

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head and went to sleep because I had
been awake for 24 hours and I just, I

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, it was hard for me to enjoy the
moment because I had had minor

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complications. I had a fever and, and
they were minor complications. It

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was a, it was a wonderful birth
because I had a wonderful doctor. So he

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spent a lot of time with us time that
he didn't have to spend with us. And

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of course, it being my first baby, it
was also foreign to me, but he made

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it easy on me. He was out of town on
my second birth. And the doctor that

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delivered me was a doctor that used to
stare at me all the time when I was

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younger and it was very uncomfortable
for me. I never told my husband, but

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I, I made it through and I was lucky
because I had epidurals with both

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babies. It was a lot easier than I, I
would imagine going through hard

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labor. And I was an older mother.
Everybody would be screaming around me.

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And even, and when my epidural wore
off, I just the screaming, just

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unnerved me. Labor and delivery I, I
guess for her first child went pretty

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,

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pretty normal. I think childbirth
brings out your true self. It's a part

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of who you are, who you really are.