Pregnancy Stories Contest

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Wendy Tibbetts

Wendy Tibbetts

Reece was born at 39 wks due to several negative factors via emergency C-section. I thought was the end of the world but with all the help of the hospital staff kept me sane through it all and not so bad. When Reece was in my womb I always said I had an acrobat in my tummy. When they pulled him out his legs were straight up in the air and all the staff said I had an acrobat on my hands! Not to mention he snorted the piglet. Which concidentally his room is classic pooh!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Eleanor

Eleanor

Susan is so very happy, but she’s finding it hard to know, whether to tell her secret, or to wait for it to grow. The secret comes with a time limit, and she knows this very well, for no matter when she says it, the secret will show and tell. Soon that sweet little secret will dress in flesh and bone, it will cry and sleep and smile, in its brand new shape and form. You see, bodies hide many secrets throughout the years they give, but only women have the power to make a secret live.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Susan Lutz

Susan Lutz

In an ultrasound at seven months, the baby stuck out his tongue. The doctor and I laughed. Then, there was silence. He'd found a genetic defect. Numb, I left the exam table and peed. I became a statistic: The baby needed surgery; the baby might have Down Syndrome; the baby might be born early; the baby might die. I got in my car and rested my forehead against the steering wheel. Then, I cried. But that little soul had me pegged. He survived and turned into the best news of my life. Heaven just couldn’t wait to tell me.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by JaneM

JaneM

"Pregnant?" In my sleep I feel him lying awake.
"How many weeks?" My mother. "May not come to anything," she said when Sarah announced at four. I'm eleven.
When I hear the heartbeat I could burst with joy.
The books are full of warnings, tests, deadly cheeses. I hardly dare breath.
I come home spotting blood. Pregnancy and work are too much. "Other people manage," he says.
I want cherishing, nourishing, nurturing. Glowing serenely. "Unrealistic expectations," he says.
He starts shouting, perhaps to bridge the growing chasm.
In the end the baby surpasses all expectations.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Johnsienoel

Johnsienoel

Mom was my birth coach since I was sans significant other and conveniently missed Lamaze class by delivering prior to attending. Two children delivered under heavy 1970’s era sedation made her fully qualified. She insisted I go natural, I think to live vicariously. While timing my hold a gallon up the butt so you don’t poop on the doctor marathon she giggled incessantly escalating to a ‘times up’ guffaw. Her coaching breaths through contractions sounded more like a death rattle and really confused the nurses. When Eva arrived my mother beamed, "she looks like E.T."

Pregnancy Stories Contest by C.J. Van Gieson

C.J. Van Gieson

Due date: April 11th, 1988. Complications ensue. Induced March 30th. Me: "Doctor, I cannot have this baby March 31st - that's my stepson's birthday and he'll plotz!" Doctor: "Honey, I have news for you - you're having this baby March 31st. Now push!" I hold out as long as I can then realize the alternative: an April fool! Baby Will is born March 31st. Me: "Happy 14th Birthday, Jonathan - it's a brother!" Eventually, he forgave me. They call each other "Bro."

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Nikki Salisbury

Nikki Salisbury

The first pregnancy test I took showed one bright pink line and one faint pink line. Was I pregnant?! I had never seen a positive pregnancy test before. The picture in the directions showed a bold second line, not one so faint you had to squint to see it. I took a second test: same results, same confusion. There was only one way to determine if this was a positive. My husband peed on the third test. I had my answer. I was pregnant and my husband definitely was not.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Margaret Palmer

Margaret Palmer

I married a man to soon. I didn't know he was a drug addict. I found out I was pregnant while he was in rehab. Due to the stress, I lost the baby. 8 months later I found myself pregnant at 39. I had just told him I was pregnant. He stabbed me fourteen times and cut my throat. I survived as did my son. Birth was a C-section at 40. I had a infection following birth and stayed in the hospital for over a month. The first month of his life I was gone. Not anymore! I LOVE Him!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by jessiep

jessiep

My grandma flew down with my mom to visit us. I decided I couldn't keep the secret any longer even though we had just found out ourselves. So, I told her out on the sunny porch as she sat wearing a straw hat and playing with the cat. I whispered in her ear "I'm pregnant!" She kicked her wheelchair closer to me and broke into a grin. And then she laughed and pointed at my husband and said, "It was you!" Grandma died peacefully that June, a month before our daughter was born. At least she knew.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Renate

Renate

After two own pregnancies and after the time I was thinking that only my two children are the best of the world I saw the truth: all new born babies are important, are equal. They are a wonder and holy. With this thinking no more religion war makes sense...or do you want to tell me that a mother is proud when her child kills people in the name of god?

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Cindy Hutchins

Cindy Hutchins

Ok, I'm dialated 6 centimeters and I have just arrived in the hospital. I am taken into a room and made to strip and put on a gown. They put a heart monitor on me and the nurse sits down with a magazine. The girl beside me is moaning in pain. The nurse keeps screaming at her that she is scaring me. Actually, the nurse is scaring me. Finally - she tells the girl "That's what you get for smoking crack, now lay their quietly or you will make your herpes inflame. Yeesh!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Meredith Palecek

Meredith Palecek

Taking an evening stroll, my husband and I walked hand in hand chatting about cribs and room colors. Then I saw it. The raised sidewalk corner. Except it was too late. I was mid-stride and off-balance with an extra 25-pound belly. I pulled his hand hard to offset my fall. It worked brilliantly as I completed a sideways sommersault, landing on my back. Not seeing my husband, I found him running in the street on all fours, trying not to fall! Walking home with no scratches, I bragged of my graceful fall!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by joelyn

joelyn

Being pregnant has been amazing! But the crazy part of it is your dreams i have had teh wierdest most unusaul dreams dreams of riding elephants in the water dreaming of what this lil child is gonna look like. Dreams are real and i wake up and am in shock i can make this stuff up. Its all fun though im enjoying every bit of it.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by katie kuchinsky

katie kuchinsky

As a teacher of a 4th grade class, I was excited to share my first pregnancy with my students. The day finally came for me to have my ultrasound which would tell me the gender of the baby. Excited for the day I wore a shirt with a giant question mark on the belly. When I asked my students why they thought I had the question mark on my shirt, one student knew the answer right away. He happily shared "Beacuse many people are wondering 'are you pregnant, or just fat?'" !!!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Kate Myers

Kate Myers

My husband and I were talking a walk during my first trimester, and I was telling him how I felt like my due date would never arrive. Rather than chide me for being impatient, he turned to me and said, “I know exactly what you mean.” “Really?” I said, delighted that he could relate. “Yep,” he explained, “Every summer, I feel the same way about football season. The days just crawl by…it’s agonizing.” When I realized he was comparing the birth of his first child with yet another football season, I told him that he should just stop talking—NOW.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Peachee

Peachee

‘Mum I’m pregnant.’ I say over the phone.
There was a very long and deadly silence.
‘Geezus, what the hell am I going to tell your father?’
‘I don’t know’ I replied.
‘Have you told Tom?’ she asked concerned
‘Well that’s the thing’ I confessed ‘I’m not sure it’s his.’
Beep, beep, beep, beep.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Acerebel

Acerebel

Over the years, two lost, none kept. All alone with no babies. Sad.

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Relaxnsmile

Relaxnsmile

42 weeks and 1 day pregnant, I had tried everything ever rumored to get labor started. It was Sunday morning and I was sitting on the front stoop enjoying the sunshine. Ahead of me, a man approaches a woman from behind and grabs her purse. Much slapping ensues, I scream, and the man runs away without the purse. My husband comes pounding down the stairs, and the entire block comes outside, expecting a baby I suppose! As the buzz settles down, I feel my first contraction -- finally, my baby on its way!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Donna Calhoun

Donna Calhoun

“Your due date is mid-November.”
Some quick calculations made my inner turmoil heat to boiling. I had gotten pregnant on my birthday. I wouldn't be speaking to my husband anytime soon. My last baby was just a year and a half old and I couldn’t believe I was pregnant again. I gave the doctor the evil eye.
“This is your fault, you know.”
“I beg your pardon?” he said.
“My last baby was three weeks late when you induced. If you hadn’t done that, I’d still be pregnant with her!

Pregnancy Stories Contest by Eleanor

Eleanor

Kate and I were both heavily pregnant that summer. We liked to sit side by side on a bench by the lake. I would read, balancing the book on my huge belly, while Kate would sip iced tea, balancing her cup on her own round stomach. One day, a slim young woman in a tiny red bikini smiled as she walked past us. “I think my past body just walked past me,” I said. “No,” said Kate, “I think that was mine.” An elderly woman, walking by, turned and said, “That is my grand-daughter, isn’t she beautiful?”