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 This is Forres Elise. I'm speaking with CP 150616-0029.

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Um, who has agreed verbally to the
consentment form. Yes.

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All right. So my first pregnancy, I
went to the doctor and he told me to

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take a birthing class. And he had um
gave me the phone number and I went

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to my first birthing class with Leon,
and he was just so bored with the

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whole thing. I said, yeah, because
you're not the one carrying this kid.

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And um she asked how many of us were
going to have an epidural. So I

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raised my hand and she said, don't do
it. It is bad for the baby. The baby

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could be born dead, and it scared the
absolute hell out of me. So when I

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went back to the doctor, I told him I
wasn't having an epidural and he

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asked me why and I reiterated what she
had said, and he flew into a rage,

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called his nurse into the office. Back
then, you didn't need nurses in the

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office with you. Um, called his nurse
into the office and demanded he call

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her and have her retract everything
she said. And he said, I promise you,

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Janette, if If I thought anything
would happen to the baby, I would never

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tell you to have an epidural. He said,
trust me, you've trusted me all

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these years, trust me. And I did. And
I didn't have any problems, and it

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was great. And um I could, I could
have played checkers throughout the

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whole uh labor and delivery, and I did
it with my second baby also. I did

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have with Stephanie, I had some uh
false contractions. I went to the

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doctor and he said they were Braxton
Hicks. Because I wasn't quite sure

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whether I was in labor or not because
labor is different for. Uh, from, uh

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, pregnancy to pregnancy sometimes,
and I was afraid that I would have her

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right then and there. They were so
hard, but he said that they were

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Braxton Hicks and that if I needed him
to call him, well, she was due June

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15th and ended up coming June 15th,
so. They were Braxton Hicks. And other

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than that, I didn't have any other
problems. And I did have an epidural

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with her also and I just could not
imagine. My sister-in-law uh did not

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have an epidural and it was horrible.
So I was glad I did what I did. Were

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you, did you feel when they asked you
to push and all of that, were you

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like, did you, was it like when I had
my son August, Eric was holding one

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leg and mom was holding another like
what was the circumstance back then

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because that's completely normal now
to have the whole family in the room

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and everyone involved in that process.
Well, I, yes, they wanted me to

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push. But you see doctors today don't
like epidurals because it takes

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longer to deliver and they want out of
the delivery room. Back then my

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doctors were very patient. They'd go
back across the street to their

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office and when it was time they'd
come back over or they'd come back over

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to check on you and then go back to
their office again. It was a totally

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different scene than it is today.
Today they they take your epidural off

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and they want you to push. The the
rest of the way through. I didn't have

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to do that. And I just couldn't
imagine being taken off my epidural

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towards the end. Probably would have
killed somebody. But um Yeah, I, they

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asked me to push, but that was it. I
didn't feel anything. So was Leon in

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the room then while you were? Yeah, he
was in the room the whole time.

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Yeah, he was in the room for both
babies. The first time the doctor had to

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get him a chair.

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And um the second time he was, he was
good with it. He knew what to expect.

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 But it was thrilling

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What did you think actually? Did you
have any other questions?

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Yes, I don't think so either. OK, I
think we could, yeah. I think

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childbirth brings out your true self.
It Depends on how you handle your

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your delivery is. It's a part of who
you are, who you really are.