The (Nine Years Late) John Paul Birth Story







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  1. Oh my gosh, I loved this story. Especially the part about how wild you felt when someone would hold John Paul. I was the same way with my John-Paul! I was like a nazi...wash your hands, are you sick, sit down first...ok now you can hold him for 10 seconds, and oh I think I need to feed him. After that first baby, I was like, "Can someone please give my arms a break?" Funny how things change :)

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  2. How cute are you??? How cute is your hair?? This is totally how I remember you from back in the day. JP is adorable. It's so funny how even as a baby, he is recognizable as his 9 yr old self! And btw: I get the rhogam shot too. SO fun. And breastfeeding is always, alwaaaaays a killer for me in the beginning. Great birth story!!:)

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  3. Thanks for sharing your story. It brought back many memories and I loved seeing the new born picture of John Paul again. It amazes me how much of the nine year old look of JP there is in this new born picture.

    Grandma & Grumpy

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  4. Beautiful...thanks for sharing!

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  5. What an awesome birth story. I love that you were able to be home and have a doctor there. I was just wondering why you wish your legs weren't held back to push, that's what my doctor always wants me to do too. Just curious. You sound like you handle the pain very well. I don't receive the epidural either for the same reasons you mentioned you don't, but the back pain is always so intense for me, I'm always screaming, "It's time!" to everyone.

    He is so adorable and still looks so similar to his baby picture!

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    1. I think perhaps it made the tear more likely to happen. It does help with leverage if you're on your back and gives your pushes extra power but since I was already pushing hard and fast anyway, I don't think my perineum had time to stretch. Maybe if he had come out a bit more slowly I wouldn't have torn? I like the idea of just letting a woman be in whatever position is most "comfortable" at the time. That said, for my two births where I did have more freedom I ended up on my back both times anyway!

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  6. Sweet. I am always amazed when I think about how the doctor that delivered John Paul was the same doctor that delivered my Andy at home 18 years earlier. It was by chance that my regular birth doctor was on vacation and he filled in, so only 1 of my five boys shares the same doctor. It also brings a smile to my face when I think of the centuries filled with women having their babies at home and how now people sometimes give us a sideways glance (as "how could you") when we tell them our stories. Love to you and all your home grown boys, Aunt Kathy

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  7. Great birth story and I think you did a good job remembering. I remember that same feeling of not wanting anyone else, besides my husband, to hold my baby (I still feel that way and he's 23 -- not so much the holding but the whole mama bear instinct) . The same goes for not being able to stand hearing a baby cry.

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  8. Beautiful! And he is looks like himself 9 years later!!

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  9. Oh Mary, what a sweet story. Thank you so much for sharing with us! Writing the story nine years later allows you to write it with a deeper level of reflection, which I think is very cool. :) Birth is so very powerful and holy! What a beautiful beginning for your family.

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