Pregnancy and Birth Stories

How you found out

• Paree - I had almost given up, but then ...
• Marika - Pregnancy after miscarriage
• Nicole - All of a sudden I hated lasagna
• Kasandra - They told me I wasn't pregnant
• Jay - Strange taste
• Teresa - I had a gut instinct
• Amanda - I think I knew
• Teresa - We've been through alot
• Sarah - The fortune cookie
• Meg - I thought I couldn't get pregnant
• Abby - I didn't need a test; I knew
• Donna - I had a Tarot reading
• Jodie - My sister yelled it across the parking lot
• Jennifer - An eerie dream
• Katie - Some women just kinda know
• Melissa - My friend bought the test
• Rita - I fainted
• Amy - Extremely tired
• Christen - Negative 3 times then positive
• Kelly - My godmother had a dream
• Beverly - We were "practicing"
• Hayley W. - I was in Spain
• Sylwia - Lubricants
• Steffy - Just relax
• Helen - I had a dream about the baby
• Alexis - I researched the symptoms on Ask Dr. Amy
• Susie - The smell of Indian food
• Mel - My friend predicted it
• Lou GB - Suspected in Spain
• Heather - I knew even before I took a test
• Nineka - I went in for a UTI
• Viki X - I could see there was a baby in my stomach
• Sharon - I always got my period on the 8th
• Ebonee - I even called the manufacturer
• Shanae - It will happen
• Nicole - It might have been triplets
• Katrina - I knew something was off

How you told him

• Brooke - A Valentine's Surprise
• Amber - A picture message from my phone
• Kamela - I put the test in a gift box
• Emily - He knows before I do
• Julie P. - Flowers from the baby
• Laura - Father's Day
• Davaisha - It ended our relationship
• Rabe - We went to the doctor
• Kirsty - He burst into tears
• Heather - I couldn't wait

Birth Stories

• Shoshana - But I thought you said it was a ...
• Stephanie - My baby knew he needed to be born early
• Kayleigh - Pre-eclampsia, didn't see baby for 2 days
• CB - Nothing went according to my plan
• Anna - From 2 to 7 1/2 centimeters in one hour
• Oddicea - Difficult emotional time at only 18
• Kerry - Unconscious for 3 weeks during my pregnancy
• Erin - It started with an ambulance ride
• Lasha - Born at 31 1/2 weeks
• Shine - Sarah's here!
• Samantha - A baby at 15
• Sherry - The pain is all worth it
• Sandra - It was the most magical night of our lives
• Steffy - Eleven minutes of pushing
• Christen - "Hi Baby"
• Sky - It was a long labour
• Alexis - Exactly how I expected it would be
• Victoria - Pregnant at 15
• Lacey - Those shows on TLC are very misleading
• Kimberlee - Nothing like I expected
• Odette - Not pushed out, vomited out
• Des McCoy - I was in for a long haul
• Dee Alston - I wanted to labor without an epidural
• Fiona Flowers - It didn't quite happen as expected
• Amanda Williams - Into the toilet
• Kristen - She was perfect and mine
• Cassie - A 4.5 hour labor with only gas

Losing a Baby

• Misty - A story of love and loss
• Nina - They couldn't find a heartbeat
• Jennifer - We lost our "little lima bean"
• Kirsty - Six weeks pregnant and there was nothing
• Steffy - There is always light at the end of the tunnel
• Jodie - I cried, got mad, then accepted
• Nikki - We lost our son in the 4th month
• Jennii - From bad to worse
• Shauna - Miscarried the day before Halloween
• Carli - Not enough amniotic fluid
• Sky - Still fearful though pregnant again
• Stephy - God bless baby Callum
• Samantha - I felt like something was detaching
• Aubrey - We will remember
• Sez - Forever in my heart
• Amy - "We have a problem."
• Kera - Her heart rate was very low

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