How, when and where were you born?

[nickle730]

I'm really enjoying these, keep 'em coming!

[~*Niadalla*~]

Public Hospital, 1983, Bendigo.
34 hour labour with forceps, epi etc.
I was 15 days overdue and when my Mum birthed my placenta it was falling to pieces. Sounds like I'm kinda lucky to be here!
Oh and the OB fainted at the sight of my placenta apparently :S

My sister - 1985 same hospital 4 hours labour. I 'think ' drug free
Youngest sister -1989 brith centre same hospital 1.5 hours labour. Drug free.
Both VB's.

I had both of my children at the hospital I was born in.

[~TT40~]

Then the god of all children, my brother was born in 1983 in america.....

PMSL!!!


I am the oldest of 3. Born normal VB on my due date in the middle of a massive hail storm in 1983. normal/average length labour for a first time mum. mum BF me for a few weeks then got masstis and stoped on her drs advice (silly dr) so I was AF from then on. (I think mum had morphine during my labour - which is what she blames my being allergic to it on..even though I tell her that wouldn't be it.)

My 1st brother was also a VB, few days over due in 1985. nothing eventful. she also got masstitis after a few weeks but told the dr all she wants is the Anitbiotics and to keep his mouth shut cause she didnt want any advice. and she kept bf him. Oh and the dr was there, in a 3 piece suit cause he had been out for dinner.

My 2nd brother was a VB at 34 weeks in 1989 after mum SROM at 18weeks. she had to be in hosptial on bedrest for 3 months. have IV antibiotics and 4 hourly washouts! she was on so many drugs to stop labour the only sign she was going to give birth to him was when she was at the nurses desk *****ing to the midwives that the shower was giving her the ****s. they looked at eachother threw her in a chair and ran her upstairs. my brother was very nearly born in the lift thats how close it was and mum didn't even realise until she picked up on how paniced the midwives were. My brother also spent longer in hospital than needed to cause he developed golden staph in the nursery.

they always planned to have more kids, but after my youngest brother they didn't want to risk it and thought about going through all that they would count their blessings and be done.

oh and we were all born that Royal Canberra that got blown up.

[briggsy's girl]

my brother was born in 1977 at 44 weeks - no induction, no drugs

me - i wasn't so easy lol
1980, due may 4 by Ob dates, may 7 by mum's. may 4, the Ob put mum in hospital and broke her waters - nothing happened. at all. for several days. Mum reckons he broke her waters so i'd be born on his date and he could do the "ner ner" thing. i dunno - possibly! On the night of May 7, the Ob turned up at the hospital, intoxicated, and got my dad to sign an authority to c/s mum the next morning under GA. i don't think they can recall if there was a specific reason - possibly the fact that the waters had been broken so much earlier. no idea why they went to dad instead of mum - possibly cos mum would have told him to bugger off!

[Lulliloo]

i was born at 5:17am on 1st april 1981. my mum got to the hospital only 15min before i was born.
i am the youngest of 3. my first sis mum was there 1hour before birth late at night
2nd sis only 1/2 hour before in the middle of the day.

we lived in the country and maybe mum thought she had more time to get to the hospital im not sure. no pain relief for any of us and all natural vag births.

[onthefly]

My goodness BG, that's actually quite horrifying!
Lol at your mum Astro

My mum read some books about pregnancy and parenting - she still has them, very 70s - but didn't do any antenatal classes and didn't have any real idea about birth or breastfeeding.
All three of us were straightforward births - no drugs or other interventions. Not sure whether she had doctors there or not. We were all post-dates - 17, 7 & 12 days past the EDDs.

[SunnyRain]

When my oldest sister was born in 197something mum got the full pain relief works and an enema. She hallucinated badly and hated every moment, so for 3 subsequent kids she refused any pain relief or an enema.

I was born in the royal hospital for women, paddington (now luxury townhouses) in January 1977, one of the hottest days on record, a true heat wave. After checking the chart following my birth, mum saw I was a "wrigley's removal". After investigating (and being told off for reading her own chart), mum learned I was posterior and removed via clamps. She hadn't known that, with no pain relief, so it obviously wasn't that bad.

I have a photo of myself 6 hours old, head full of hair. I looked exactly like my 2 babies at birth (but more hair).

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[LaDolceVita]

I was born in January 1986 at Dubbo Base Hospital NSW (Dad was a miner and we lived in a mining town 3.5 hours west.) Born via Cesarean, no idea why and won't ever know.. That's as much as I know about my birth, don't know if I was breastfed, what my first words were, when I walked, nothing as my Dad died when I was 11, Mum died when I was 16 and as my Grandparents lived in Sydney and weren't too involved with my younger days, plus have shot memories, I have no one to ask these things.. Which really sucks now I've had my own baby and realise how much knowing all those things would mean to me!

My brother was born via c-sec too in September 88 but once again I don't remember why. I only know about the c-secs as I remember Mum always bashing on and blaming us for her scars lol!

[MrsFabuloso]

my brother was born in 1977 at 44 weeks - no induction, no drugs

Wow, so many mums going over 40 weeks back then!

I was born in January 1986 at Dubbo Base Hospital NSW (Dad was a miner and we lived in a mining town 3.5 hours west.)

Not Cobar by any chance? LOL (it's where we are living at the mo!)



My mum had 3 classical c/s's. We were all born in Auburn Hospital in Sydney. I'm not sure of all of the exact details though.

Brother #1 was born after 40wks I think. Mum had apparently been in labour for a few days, but was getting nowhere with birthing bro, so she ended up going in for a c/s on christmas night, after her OB had had his chrissy dinner! He was fairly big, about 9pounds or so. That was in 1969.

Brother #2 was born very early, at about 31/32 weeks. Mum went into preterm labour and the docs couldn't stop it. Brother was born via emergency c/s. Apparently he was tiny and very very sick. They didn't expect him to live. He was baptised that night with the expectation he would die. Obviously he didn't! That was in 1970.

I was born in 1978. About 6 or 7 weeks early. Again my mum had been in labour for a few days and the docs tried to stop it all, but couldn't. I was fairly big for my gestation, about 4-5pounds I think.

[Blixie]

1987 - #1 (girl) Nambour General 41+3 3.5 hours 7lbs 6oz epi
1988 - #2 (girl, Me) Nambour General on EDD 2.5 hours 9lbs gas and air
1991 - #3 (girl) Nambour General 37 weeks 2 hours 6lbs 5oz gas and air
1992 - #4 (boy) Maleny Hospital 39 weeks ARM due to constant false labor 5.5 hours 8lbs 8oz gas and air
1994 - #5 (girl) Nambour General 38+2 induced using drip due to chicken pox 4 hours 25 minutes 7lbs 1oz gas and air
1996 - #6 (boy) Caboolture Hospital 38+1 his twin didn't make it due to TTTS so they made the decision early on to induce. Using drip 3hours 45 minutes 7lbs 9oz gas and air, pethidine.
2005 - #7 (girl) Caboolture Hospital 40+4 2 hours 9lbs 11oz gas and air
2007 - #8 (girl) Caboolture Hospital 38 weeks induced due to high blood pressure 6 hours 6lbs 12oz gas and air
2009 - #9 (boy) Caboolture Hospital 36 weeks "crash c-section" due to Placental abruption 6lbs 7oz

[Marley&Me]

I was born in 1982 at South Eastern District private hospital, Noble Park.
I was born 2 days early, due on 15th, but came on 13th. I was also born BUM FIRST in breech position. Doctors tried to flip me, but I didn't want to budge! It was natural not ceasar, I don't think mum even had gas (not sure)

My brother was born 9 weeks premature in Dandenong hospital. He was sooo tiny! He was at the hospital for a little while before mum took him home, but theres nothing wrong with him now, he's huge!! But he does need glasses when he reads. But that't it, mum was pretty lucky.

[indie24]

I am number 4 out of 5 children. Elder of fraternal twins. My mum had VB for all of us.

My brother and were born a week past our EDD. I don't recall mum saying anything about pain relief. In fact I can recall mum saying she laughed with the nurses about popping us out like rabbits.
Mum didn't know she was expecting twins. I was born bum first and was then told that she had another one coming.

[Floweryfields]

I am number 4 out of 5 children. Elder of fraternal twins. My mum had VB for all of us.

My brother and were born a week past our EDD. I don't recall mum saying anything about pain relief. In fact I can recall mum saying she laughed with the nurses about popping us out like rabbits.
Mum didn't know she was expecting twins. I was born bum first and was then told that she had another one coming.

Pretty amazing hey how things were able to happen the natural way without US and intervention for twins back then. I also know a lady who had VB twins in the 80's that were unexpected.

[Rach75]

me 1974 rockhampton QLD mums waters broke at 4am, she went to hospital around 7am, she could feel contractions but no pain lasting a min every 5min, she was 2cm dilated at 3pm mum was still contraction every 5min for a min no further dilation so a caeser was performed, at 3pm saturday, mum saw me at 5am sunday morning her words she was a barren cow no milk no engorgment no collustrum so I was formula fed and brought down from nursery every 3-4 hrs, on the wed morning mum devoloped a severe infection which left he bed ridden for 14 days with visits from me where the nurses waved me to her from the doorway then took me on their rounds, (mum was nurse at the hospital) I spent a lot of time in a trolley being wheeled around the hospital

my sister (aussienic) 1976 townsville elective caeser at 36 weeks, mum had nic around 10am and had her with her by 12pm she spent the days sleeping beside mums bed but in nursery at night again no milk came thru they started mum on anti bi day 1 but she still devoloped a infection around day 4 nic was able to be with mum but also spent a lot of time in SC as she was failing to thrive and losing weight...mum was realeased on day 12 from hospital

[Floweryfields]

Oh yeah, the length of hospital stay when I was born was 5-7 days for a VB nearly 2 weeks for a CS.

[Freya]

I was the first of three kids after 6 years of infertility.

I was born in July 1985 at the Mater Private Hospital in Brisbane. I was a 8 hour vaginal birth with no drugs. 5lb 4oz.
My sister was born in Seymour, Victoria (public hosp I think?) in Sept 1987. She was a 4hr vaginal birth no drugs. 6lb something.
My brother was born in Campbelltown Public in Jan 1993. He was a 90min induction no drugs. 6lb something.

[LaDolceVita]

Not Cobar by any chance? LOL (it's where we are living at the mo!.

OMG yes! My home town.. Dad was killed at CSA in a shaft collapse. Lived there for my first 12 years

[Mildez]

My siblings and I were all born at Dubbo Base although we were not from Dubbo. My parents local hospital didn't do c/s so mum felt safer at a hospital that could manage with all types of emergencies (and another reason why my mother insisted I had to birth my 1st there also)

My brother was born on his due date. Mum had an episiotomy (it was routine back then in the 70's almost everyone had one) Mum went to hospital in labour and was 1cm when she arrived. 12hrs later she was very distressed and still 1cm so they started a synto drip and my brother arrived a little over 1hr later. I know mum had gas (not sure if peth also) and was wanting more "mice" (ice) Dad fainted when the placenta came out and mum was in stirups for the birth.

2yrs later my sister arrived at 37weeks. Apparently mum was 3cm when she arrived and shortly after insisted she wanted to push but her midwife told her she wasn't ready and left her. Mum started pushing anyway and got abused by the midwife as she wasn't ready to push and my sister was born onto the bed lol

2yrs after this I was born at 38weeks. Mum had an APH at 35weeks and was in hosital for 2weeks then went home for 1week before going into spontaneous labour. Mum had a graze with me but I dont know about pain relief. I was the biggest bub at 8lb5oz. Mum stayed 10days after I was born.

8yrs after me my youngest brother was born. Mum had an epidural as she felt to old to go through it again but it wasn't effective and the pain crippled half her body and the other half was numb. My brother was born shortly after midnight and although he could have been born the day before mum thought it would be nice to hold of for a few minutes so we could share a birthday (he was born on my 8th birthday) The hospital wanted to send her home that day and mum was very disappointed she couldnt stay for a few days to rest. She did not want to come home to the older 3 children.