What's Your Pregnancy Story?

What's Your Pregnancy Story? 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.

What's Your Pregnancy Story? by christine_t.

christine_t.

I was big at the end. Really big. Five days past my due date, I take a walk to the local video store. Only my protruding belly is so large that I can't see the jumbled pavement and I go down. Hard. There is a lot of blood. And strangers too freaked out to do much but hand me a Kleenex. My glasses are smashed so I can't see much, but I am grateful when the ambulance arrives. I eventually went home with 10 stitches in my forehead and my arm in a sling. Owen arrived three days later. Perfect.

What's Your Pregnancy Story? by Bridget_Jackson

Bridget_Jackson

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!

What's Your Pregnancy Story? by Kay_Kay

Kay_Kay

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.

What's Your Pregnancy Story? by Matt_LoGuercio

Matt_LoGuercio

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.

What's Your Pregnancy Story? by MeGo_Melissa_Gould

MeGo_Melissa_Gould

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.

What's Your Pregnancy Story? by Betsy_Decker

Betsy_Decker

Pregnancy dreams are vivid, emotional, occasionally bizarre. My most intense dream involved having a boy whom I named Christopher. I dreamed of the frustrations of trying to swaddle him and put him to my breast. Frustrating, because Christopher was born a push-pin. He was a regular-sized green push-pin. I loved him dearly, but panicked, because if I set Christopher down next to a "regular" push-pin how would I know which one was my baby?!?!? I relaxed upon remembering that my baby had a bent tip. Of course I would recognize him! My darling, bouncing baby push-pin.