Doctor Jaidan, medicine girl! Valerie Lujan was seven months pregnant and at home with her daughter, Jaidan, when she went into labor. The nine-year-old stayed calm and acted quickly to deliver her little brother.
Every pregnant woman wonders when her water is going to break. Will she be at work or wet the floor? Who will clean up the liquid mess while she rushes to the hospital?
Birthing methods are a hotly debated topic. Some women want to welcome their children into the world at
home in their bathtubs while others can't wait to pick a date for a scheduled c–section. To each their own but
cesareans do come with some limitations.
When my mom delivered my 12-pound, 6-ounce sister, the doctors told her the baby could have been a healthy set of twins — even triplets. But, imagine delivering two babies that size. A North Carolina mother gave birth to a pair of twins that tipped the scales at a combined 23 pounds and one ounce.
Giving birth to a child is a poignant moment in a mom's life — one Texas woman experienced it twice with her daughter. One-month-old Macie Hope, had been medically taken from her mother's womb during the sixth month of pregnancy so doctors could remove a tumor the size of a grapefruit that would have killed her. Then, she made her official debut ten weeks later on May 3rd.
