I love my Grandma's birth stories!

ncjulia12 · May 2012

I'm very close to my Grandma and she has been bringing up all these stories about her babies and even when her brothers and sisters were born.

Some of my favorite/most interesting tidbits:

-Even when she was 12, she had no idea when her mom was pregnant. Apparently, they just didn't talk about those things back then. My grandpa said whenever someone came to his (one-room) school to tell him to go home with someone else, that meant his mom was having a baby at his house. Until then- he had no idea.

-At the end of one of her own pregnancies, my grandma said she working outside and "knew I shouldn't pick up the slop bucket, but the hog needed to be fed" and when she picked it up, her water broke. She still had to wait for my grandpa to finish milking the cows before they went to the hospital though and almost had the baby in the car.

-The only actual birth (out of 6 kids) she doesn't remember is the last one because unknowingly to her, they gave her a drug that made her pass out and when she woke up the baby was there. (I remember this happened to Laura Ingalls in one of the books and always prayed that's how my babies would come...until I grew up and ended up obsessed with natural birth!)

These probably aren't that interesting to you ladies (since it's my little Grandma and not yours) but if you have your own little Grandmas or great-aunts or whoevers, you should ask them- it's crazy how the mindsets/practices around pregnancy have changed over the years and I love seeing my Grandma's face light up when she talks about each of her little babies.

richards897 · May 2012

My mom was telling me what she remembers form each of her pregnancies earlier today and my grammy was telling me about having her oldest (my aunt) I thought it was pretty cool...

tuki06 · May 2012

I think your stories are funny. Sadly my gma passed when I was 15 so I can't ask and didn't think to do so then cus come on I was 15 and convinced I didn't want kids at that point lol. My mom barely remembers my birth and I'm an only child and MIL doesn't seem to remember much either which I find odd since she did it 5 times

Davesgrl2011 · May 2012

I don't have a grandma anymore

but my mom is always telling me how she doesn't remember any of the symptoms of pregnancy (discharge, exhaustion, back aches, braxton hicks etc) in a way that it makes me think that she thinks I am making it up. Like I told her that I was exhausted after doing the food shopping, and she acted like I was being a huge baby. Does that count?

AllisonLeigh · May 2012

Mine loves to tell me how my mom came walking out with her thumb in her mouth. She was a breech baby and came really fast. I always think its cute the way she talks about it.

FutureNichols · May 2012

I love these too. Gotta love when they tell these stories that will stay with you forever. My grandma told me about when she had my aunt. She was 12lbs and the 12th child. My grandma said, "Then I didn't find it so hilarious that I pushed out a 12lb baby." I can't imagine.

cat2784 · May 2012

My Gma has never said much, besides that she remembers listening to the radio- my uncle was born the same day Hiroshima was bombed.

DHs Gma, who had like 12 kids, said when she was pregnant with my MIL and her twin she had to go up and down the stairs on her butt. They ended up being over 7lbs each, yikes.

PrimReaper · May 2012

I love these stories. My grandma was telling me about how she wasn't allowed to care for her babies in the hospital because the nurses knew best so they babies would be in the nursery all the time and only with mom to feed.

And how the men were not a part of the birth, they just looked at their babies through the nursery window when all was said and done.

And my favorite, when they left the hospital, baby just rode in the arms of mom for the car ride home....such a different world back then.

JessieCupcake · May 2012

I love these stories! Thanks for sharing. My grandma is 90 and she has really interesting stories about her life. I'll have to ask her about her birth experiences.

courtfsu · May 2012

My step dad is the youngest of 12. He was born in a small farm town and they didn't have indoor plumbing til he was 16 years old. Although most of his brothers and sisters have passed away now, I remember one of his sisters recounting one of her siblings births. They didn't have a hospital near by so all the babies were born at home. She does remember someone coming to the house but couldn't say if that person was a doctor or a neighbor. She said that all the kids would just lounge around the house, but that wehn their mom started yelling, the older kids would head outside and the younger kids would hide around the house. Still makes me giggle. How things have changes. I keep worrying about what I would do if I was home alone with DS and went into labor.

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