Story of Mrs. Z: My water broke in the late dawn. I kicked out my eldest daughter out of the room so she won't see what's going to happen. I called my sister and shouted chinese on the phone, telling her to come here to help me. Panick started to rise as the thought of the one-child policy ran through my mind. By the time my sister came, she brought along a midwife with her. As they get the preparation ready, and the midwife soothing me, telling me to calm down but how can i?! I lay on my back and screamed with pain as the hours go by, but in my mind, it feels like forever. I told myself to be brave and hurry to push out the child, so the pain would be gone and if anyone founds out about this second child, I would have to go and shut their mouths up. I gripped my sister's hand as the long labor keeps going and in the process of pushing the baby out.
Finally, the child is out. All the long hours of labor has finally ended. The baby's cry sounded the whole room. I closed my eyes and let the midwife do her job of cleaning up the baby. "Here you go, it's a girl! Congratulations," she said. I wasn't able to hold her since I had little energy left [some kind of chinese culture...rule (kind of)] so I fell asleep.
Birth Story 2:
Mrs.X was having her first child and she felt her stomach hurting. So on an August day, she went to the hospital to tell the doctors that she was going to have a baby. The female doctors check up on her and when they use an instrument to listen to the baby's heart, their was a low sound of the baby's heart. The doctors told her to go get sonogram (not sure if its the correct term) and then they told her that she has too much fluid that it is hard for the baby to breathe. Rather than doing the normal procedure, the doctors decided to have a c-section. She was lie on her back and the doctors gave her an epidural. However, during the process of c-section, there wasn't enough amount of epidural so she had to endure the pain, which was really painful! The scar which she had was near the bottom of the stomach. After she was out, the nurse asked if she wants to have a birth medal for her baby and she said yes, which on the medal, it gives the picture of the year of the zodiac, the time and date of her birth and etc.
Birth Story 3:
Mrs. Y was having another child and because she was over 35 years old, she had to get a scan (sonogram) to see if the baby is alright because of the fluid in the the stomach and her age can cause the baby to have some problem delivering. However, her body was fine and her baby was fine after the scan and so it was a normal procedure. The father were allowed to be in the delivering room. She lie on the bed and the doctors started the delivery. It took her from the morning to around 3 p.m. around 4 p.m. for the baby to come out. "It was really painful and hard," she said. She was also very exhausted and the doctor gave her a shot for her to go to sleep. As for the baby, the nurse had blanket it and cleaned it. She didn't really see the baby much after the delivering since she was tired and was sent to a room.
Birth Story 4:
It was 1 o'clock in the morning and Mrs. A started whining to her husband that the baby might be coming. So the father drove her to the hospital. On the bed where Mrs. A lies on, the nurse comes in telling them what to do but since only Mrs. A knows English, she had to translate back to the father. From the nurse's perspective, it looked like Mrs. A was in so much pain that she was just screaming and babbling to Mr. A in their language. That made the nurse started talking directly to Mr. A since the nurse thought Mr. A knew English when it was Mrs. A was the one who knew it (it was because she was talking in her language that made the nurse thought like that). After the nurse left, Mrs. A and Mr. A spotted a orthodox jewish couple in the next room and they overheard that the jewish woman was already in labor for 24 hours. The jewish husband was praying for their baby, which seemed funny. This made Mrs. A started to panick and telling Mr. A that the baby better be coming out soon. Luckily, Mrs. A didn't need to take any drugs and the child was naturally born.
During around 5 o'clock in the morning, the doctor who OB came in and Mrs. A and Mr. A were in shocked because the doctor was black (since Mrs. A and Mr. A were only in American for about 1 year and they had not seen a black person with a doctor's position). Therefore, the first person to touch their baby was a black doctor. After all the pain and suffering, Mrs. A finally had the baby out and slept for two hours. Mr. A was able to see the baby first in the room full of babies, which by the way, the jewish husband was still praying for his wife (around 30 hours or so). When the nurse came in with Mrs. A's baby and since it is her first baby, she didn't know what to do when the baby started crying. The baby was actually hungry so the nurse told Mrs. A to do the breast feeding and after a while, the baby stopped crying.
Note: on the first sonogram, the baby was suppose to be a girl but on the second sonogram, it was a boy.
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