Tag Archives: birth stories

Celebrity Births

I love hearing labor and delivery stories. Whether I’m talking to friends, relatives, or watching TLC’s “A Baby Story,” I can’t get enough of the different experiences women have. Some go all natural, some get an epidural the second they arrive at the hospital, and many fall in between. Some births are scheduled C-sections, some are induced, and some begin all on their own. Many women give birth in the hospital, while others opt to give birth at a birthing center, or even at home. I often find myself wondering, “What type of labors and deliveries do celebrities have?” There … Continue reading →

Does Jamie Lynn Spears’ Birth Story Glamourize Teen Pregnancy?

She’s a 17-year-old unmarried mother with a 3-week-old daughter… and she’s famous. Last week actress Jamie Lynn Spears (younger sister of reforming pop star Britney Spears) shared the first pictures of her newborn daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge on the cover of OK! Magazine. The first time mom also shared Maddie’s birth story and after reading it you have to wonder how many teens it inspired to procreate. According to Jamie Lynn, giving birth was a “surreal” and “amazing” experience. And the labor itself was “perfect.” The teen tells the magazine she was induced on the morning of Thursday, June 19th, … Continue reading →

The Gift of a Bad Birth Experience

Eleven years ago I gave birth to my first son. I was young but passionate and relatively educated for those pre-internet times. I had planned out my conception, pregnancy and birth in many ways but none prepared me for the emotional toll I was about to endure. On Halloween night, while watching trick-or-treaters at a local mall, I went into labor; quietly, painlessly. Early labor, but I knew. I took secret pride walking around the mall, largely pregnant, in the earliest stages of labor with my very first child. Contractions increased and we thought it important to head off to … Continue reading →