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Thanks to Cafe Mom for this one.
Some moms are lucky to have an easy delivery in the labor room, and then there’s TikToker Amy Dunbar. Her experience is enough to make some mamas jealous and she shared it in response to a prompt looking for ridiculous birth stories. “This one was made for me,” she says in the video, adding that she had been in labor for about 12 hours when doctors finally gave her an epidural.
“They figured out very quickly that it wasn’t working,” she recalls. “So they did whatever it is that they do to make it work.” And that meant that after 13 hours, Dunbar finally got some sleep. She explains that a nurse came in to check on her while she was snoozing and told her mom she just saw a big contraction on the monitor and that if she was sleeping through it, that means the epidural was working because she didn’t feel it.
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Doulas and midwives often tell their clients to record their birth stories so they don t forget the moments leading up to how they became mothers. But this past year has changed many of these narratives as the global pandemic has impacted birthing people in ways big and small. Some welcomed children alone, as hospitals struggled to contain the virus. Others have been isolated from friends and family, trading in-person celebrations for face-time and Zoom calls. As we prepare to celebrate Mother s Day, Birth Storiesâa limited audio series hosted by