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Adulthood - Giving birth (3 stories selected)
Stories Listed by Date (page 1 of 1)Resist the Urge to Push! (story 1 of 3)Barbara and I thought giving birth the second time would be easier but nothing seemed to go according to plan. When Barbara’s water broke around midnight we called my brother to ask him to come over and watch our first kid, Daniel. No answer at home, just an answering machine. So we called his cell phone. No answer there. I called his home number again and left a message on the machine. Then, assuming he and my sister-in-law were sleeping, I called over and over again. No luck. Giving Birth - When One Equals Two (story 2 of 3)Our first child turned out to be two - allow me to explain. It was in the late spring of 1961 and I was in the U.S. Navy stationed at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. We lived in an apartment in nearby Wickford and Lil was pregnant and due for her eight month checkup this very day. We had driven together to the naval air station and Lil dropped me off at the squadron hangar. She then went on the naval hospital for her checkup. The plan was that she would pick me up at the hangar later on tha... A High Tolerance for Pain (story 3 of 3)That's most people say when I tell my "giving birth" story -- "Well, you must certainly have a high tolerance for pain." Story of my life, really.
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