My labor contractions were erratic, so the doctor let me walk around. I went to the bank, hit Chicago's Mag Mile to do some last minute shopping! Imagine little ole me waddling down Michigan Avenue squatting on contractions...the Disney Store was the nicest about it.
I went to Nike Town to get Jordans. As I shopped, the contractions got worse, so I was squatting in Nike town A LOT! Needless to say, I was helped with all my purchases and even granted a pass to the front of the line!
Good thing, too. My water broke within the hour!

My husband picked the wrong time to leave the room to go get something to eat. I wasn't in labor yet even though the pitocin was cranked to the max. 10 minutes later my Dr checked me and our daughter was right there. The nurses told me to wait on my husband and I told them to forget it, I am pushing her out now. My husband walked in right when I pushed her out, she was out in 1/2 a push. he nearly missed his daughters birth. Labor lasted just 10 mins and she basically slid right out.

Wife is about 8 1/2 months pregnant and her feet are swollen and hurting her. She goes to nail salon where Korean women who work there refuse to massage her feet in fear it may induce labor. She comes home and begs me to massage her feet, she leaves out the part that she was just told it could induce labor. I give her feet a vigorous massage. At 5 am she wakes me up and says her water broke, then she says, I guess you shouldn't have rubbed my feet. Our son was born 5 hours later.

He was a madman. We met through an Internet personal ad. Redundant? On paper he looked good, having achieved all the succes$ possible in life. What was lacking and craved: a child. He desired a wife, too, but I sensed her role would be essentially that of womb-as-delivery-mechanism. He was amassing, in true cart-before-horse-style, infant-related items, and had found an old-fashioned English perambulator, much like the one I imagine Rosemary used for her Baby. Appropriate, as he lived in the Dakota. I suspect his pram will remain empty for 666 years.