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 And I'm just going to say this is Boris Solis, and I'm interviewing for

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Creative Push on December 15, 2016 at
Uh, 420.

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Can you say your name and your age for
me? Katrina Cheana? I'm 50 years

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old. Will you like bring me back to
your childhood and this idea of, you

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know, the family home and what birth
was like um you know, in your

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household. Well, um, as I was growing
up. I had like um. Not really good

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life. When I was a baby, because, um,
I had some kind of um. Uh, how would

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I say?

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Little bit of a like a disease,
something. And

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My parents told me that they took me
to one of the hot springs, and they

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gave me a bath. And

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I guess that water is like. I don't
know, but it healed good on my skin.

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And then that's when I started making
progress.

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So as I was growing up, I usually used
used to have um.

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Tonsils all the time. And then
finally, they had to take him out. I was

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always sick. Bringing me home. Um, But
after that, I had a good life. Did

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your um mom ever talk to you about the
way your birth, you being born?

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That was it. But I mean, um, like the
process and that it was in the home

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or, oh no, she never told me so at
that part I don't even know. So the

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only thing that they told me was when
they brought me home. That was it,

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but I don't even know where from. Oh,
so you don't know if you were born

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in your house or not? Oh, that's
interesting. Do you know if any of your

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other sisters or brothers were? Um, I
have no idea. Probably they do, but

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they just never say anything. Why do
you think that is that people don't

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talk to their family about that stuff?
I don't know. That's weird, huh?

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Yeah, because it's very interesting to
know your birth story. Oh yeah. So

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, um, were you prepared for when you
got pregnant and were giving birth?

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Um, Yeah, I was. Did anyone talk to
you about the process and what to

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expect, um.

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Some people ask me like in the
mornings, do I get morning sickness? And

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then I asked them what's that? cause I
never did. And then with all three

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of them. But um. The first one, I had
a hard time giving birth because she

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had tubes on her on her neck. And then
I almost had um.

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We almost died, me and her. So they
they rushed us to uh ER. And then the

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doctor tried to. Turn her, but They
couldn't And then they were gonna do

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the C-section. And then I thought to
myself, no, I don't want that cause I

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don't wanna have a uh uh what's that
bug's name? Can Like a centipede

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Centipede, yeah. So I started pushing.
Until the baby came out, but then I

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had a blackout. So it was scary. Did
you lose a lot of blood? Yes, I did.

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But they didn't give me any anything,
so I was OK. Did you have family

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with you? Yes, my sister. That that
was the time I um. My mom passed away

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already, but I had my dad still.

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So he was there, my sister was there,
my sister-in-law, and then my other

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sister, and my niece, so they were all
there. And then the dad was there

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too, and then the grandma. So they
were all there. Supporting us?

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Were they, were they, were they all in
the hospital room with you, or were

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they in the waiting room, uh, the
waiting room because they had to rush me

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to the ER to get my, uh, either the
The C-section or either way. So I did

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it myself to give birth. So where were
you rushed from? Uh, to a room, to

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a room where I was about to give
birth. So the baby started, I mean, the

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baby stopped uh her heartbeat. And
then they had to rush me, then they

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turned me over. Then they had to rush
me to uh ER. And you still gave

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birth vaginally, yeah, I did. And the
baby was OK, yes. But she, when she

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came out, she was like kind of blue.
But they gave her that oxygen, so

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everything went well. Was she quiet at
first, yeah, she was. I thought it

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was scary. Scary.

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Did you know the sex? The boy or girl,
um, after I woke up, they tell me

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that it was a girl. I was like, cool.
So you, you pushed her out and then

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passed out immediately. Yeah. Cuz I
was too tired. Well you lost a lot of

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blood, yeah.

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So then did you stay at the hospital
for a few days, um, just 2 days, yeah.

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That was it, so we were doing good and
then had to like um. Every other

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day we had to go down. To see us for
like 2 weeks just for follow up,

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follow up. Did um, did you have a name
picked out? Did you know, I mean,

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were you expecting, you didn't weren't
expecting for a girl, so. See,

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that's what um they usually do like
our tradition way. They don't give out

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names, but now they have to because of
the um. Issues in hospitals.

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So that's why they have to choose
name.

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Not unless if the baby is baptized in
the hospital. So, so what is the

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traditional way? How did you do it,
uh? I didn't give any. It was like uno

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baby girl chenona, so I had to bring
her home. And then after that we had

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to uh ask for Uh, the godparents,
who's gonna be the godparents. So I

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chose my, my uncle and my
sister-in-law.

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So, but they're both um gone too, so
they passed away. And did they name

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her? Yes. How many names, just the 12,

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the first name and the middle name. So
it's Brian and Dane.

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Yes, that's lovely. And so were you
named the same way? Were you had your

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godparents that named you? Yeah. Do
the parents ever not like the name

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they give him? Some do. And some, it's
OK. Yeah.

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So was it uh different for your 2nd
birth, Your 2nd baby, my 2nd birth was

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easy.

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As um I was sitting over here and then
I was like, just like cramping or

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something. So I went into the to the
restroom. And then my back broke. So

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I had to call in. Then they rushed me
down. As we were going down, there

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was an accident right by uh Zia. Is
it, is it going down going into

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Bertolio, so we asked one of the uh
cops if they could let us go. So they

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talked and then they escort us down.
So they told us to turn the uh

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emergency, I mean the The lights on,
so we did. Then we kept on going as

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we went down to Purse. We got stopped
by again by a cop, and then he asked

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why our emergency lights were on. So
we told him. So he was the one that

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escorted down to Presbyterian. That's
why I gave my kids to birth,

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Presbyterian.

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So when I went in there, as they were
looking at me, the baby's head was

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out already. So just like about 2
seconds, he was out. It was fast. And

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then the doctor was getting ready. As
he was getting ready, the nurse came

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over and just, cause I almost dropped
the baby I was giving birth.

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Yeah, so that's how I, when, so when
you were in the bathroom, what was

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the water breaking like? It was hot,
burning hot. Like boiling water.

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Cuz they kind of like burned me on the
sides on my thighs.

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Well, if you think about your internal
body temperature, right, it's like

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98 degrees. Interesting. Yeah, um, so
then, had you, so did you have the

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godparent pick godparents again and do
the same naming tradition with your

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second birth? Yes. It was, it was my
uh sister and my brother. Yeah. So

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they had to name her. My sister had to
name him Joseph. Joseph Marquez is

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his name. Did you nurse your children?
A little. But they keep on beating

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my nipples, so I stop I said no more.
So So then you just went to formula

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, yeah. Yeah. It's it nursing is
challenging. It is very.

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Yeah.

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But he had a good life. It's just one
thing that he has asthma. When he

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was growing up. I used to hate
Christmas.

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Why? Because, um, he would get asthma
attacks and then we'll be there

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after the holidays till the holidays
are over. I wonder why. I don't know.

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 Cause, uh,

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Like if he gets sick this week, then
we'll be there for like 2.5 weeks.

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I used to hate Christmas. Yeah,
interesting, yeah. So, um, have you

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witnessed any other births? Did you go
for any of um, no. Have you ever

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been a godparent? Just one. Uh,
Marlena. Yes. I had to choose a name for

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her. So I named her um Marlena. And
the, I think it's the grandma or the

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parent needs her Guadalupe. So it's
Marlena Guadalupe.

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Is that child a blood relative of
yours? Yes, my niece's daughter, so.

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Um, Is there anything you would say
about, you know, birth to a, a young

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mother now today? Well, I would just
say to be careful, um.

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Eat as much as you can like healthy
foods, yeah. Did um

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What's that

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Do you wanna go look? You can go look,
yeah, yeah,

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yeah, so I just wanted to ask you
another question if there were any, um,

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like, um. Like superstitions or
anything about certain foods you could eat

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or because I know in my family we have
a lot of those kinds of things they

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won't let us eat uh bubble gums, yeah,
like um gums, peons. And Because,

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um.

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I know about the peon, like if they
eat the peons, they were, their hair

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will be like all greasy.

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And I I don't know about the bubble
gus, but they don't let us eat bubble

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gus. The, that's what my grandma did
to me and my mom. Yeah, the last one

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we talked to said that she was not
just so, yeah. And then There's other

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stuff that we're not allowed to do
too, so.

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Yeah. That's interesting. Do you think
that those traditions aren't, you

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know, um, as you know that young women
today don't follow those traditions

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as much? Um Like if you explain to
them, probably they'll understand, like

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to my girls, I always tell them, like
all those things what my mom told me

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to do. So, like if they ever get
pregnant, I'll be strict to them.

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Mhm.

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Um, actually, do you have any
questions?

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I don't think so. Oh, we didn't talk
because you had a 3rd birth too. Did

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you want to mention anything that was
similar to the 2nd? No? No.

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That was the hardest one. Because when
I was giving birth, she kept on

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like going down, then sucking it back,
then going down. Yeah. I had to.

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They almost did a C-section on her
too. I don't know why with the girls, I

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had a hard time. So uh that's about
it. Was that a long, a long labor? It

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was like 150. Yeah. Hi.

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We're almost done. We're wrapping up.
Oh, I did think of one question. OK.

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So you were saying that um before you
had your first baby, your mother

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had already passed, right? Do you
think that she would have been more

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forthcoming, sharing information about
your birth or her experience, um,

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you know, if you had been pregnant
while she was still alive? Or is that

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something that just isn't? Talked
about Well, um,

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Just like I um.

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But there. Just like I tell my
daughters about the way. I'm supposed to

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take care of. As I was pregnant,
probably she was. Tell me those stuff too.

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OK. Well, thank you so much. It was
wonderful.