Well, it was hot. I had two summer babies. So it was very hot. Both times.
I really never thought of my pregnancy. I gained £80 because I wanted to
eat what I wanted to. And, um, I didn't think of myself while I was
working and taking care of my parents. So I just ate and took it day by
day. And by the end of my pregnancy, I was so overweight. It was
uncomfortable in the heat. My first baby, I woke up in the morning and I
felt strange. It wasn't a physical, strange. It was a mental, strange and
I couldn't figure out what was wrong because she wasn't due for a couple
of weeks. But she was born on a blue moon which made her come early. A
blue moon is two moons and two full moons in one month. And so, um, that
day I started to feel very strange mentally and I couldn't shake it. And
then a short time later I went into labor and like I said, I wasn't due
for another two weeks and I couldn't get a hold of him. You know, we
didn't have cell phones, like we did. Now, it wasn't, it wasn't easy to
get a hold of you. And so I called the doctor and they told me to get in
right away that I in fact was in labor. So I said that I would wait for my
husband and three hours later they called me, they said we really want you
to get in here. But I was afraid to go to the hospital without him. So he
finally came home. He was so excited. We went to the doctor's office and
they told him to get the car to drive me across the street to the hospital
and he got the car and he went to the other end of the parking lot and
they said, where is he? And I looked out at the parking lot and there he
was way on the south end of the lot just sitting in the car. He didn't
know what to do because he had gone into shock. I felt bad and I went out
to the parking lot and I started to wave him over to me and he drove over
and he was like a deer in the headlights. It was really kind of scary
looking. I got in the car and I helped him get me to the hospital and, um
, he stayed with me through the whole thing and I, I delivered, I think it
was at 10 o'clock that night. And when she was born, it was really not
only the fact that she was first born, but she came like she had been here
before she reached up and touched the doctor's face. And when they put her
in Leon's arms,
she reached up and touched his face like she knew him. And I turned my, my
head and went to sleep because I had been awake for 24 hours and I just, I
, it was hard for me to enjoy the moment because I had had minor
complications. I had a fever and, and they were minor complications. It
was a, it was a wonderful birth because I had a wonderful doctor. So he
spent a lot of time with us time that he didn't have to spend with us. And
of course, it being my first baby, it was also foreign to me, but he made
it easy on me. He was out of town on my second birth. And the doctor that
delivered me was a doctor that used to stare at me all the time when I was
younger and it was very uncomfortable for me. I never told my husband, but
I, I made it through and I was lucky because I had epidurals with both
babies. It was a lot easier than I, I would imagine going through hard
labor. And I was an older mother. Everybody would be screaming around me.
And even, and when my epidural wore off, I just the screaming, just
unnerved me. Labor and delivery I, I guess for her first child went pretty
,
pretty normal. I think childbirth brings out your true self. It's a part
of who you are, who you really are.