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Appendix A

1. um..Well..let me see.

2. I had my first daughter, her name is Ca--therine,

3. she was born in October 2002.

4. um.. I got really fat, not like little fat, I gained like 52 pounds,

5. I was huge.. I just can't believe? how big I was, a--nd stop to think about it.

6. so... I was, I was.. you know, clearing around. eating everything. a--nd.. a--nd the baby

7. kicking me all the time,

8. and it came this point, where I couldn't stop walking. Somebody take me for a walk.

9. come on mum? lets go for a walk? come on Todd, Todd was my ex- husband. come on

10. Todd? let's go for a walk?

11. I would walk and I would walk, and I would walk, and there will be nothing? and I

12. wouldn't fell anything.

13. I would not just sit down? I wouldn't hold still, and so.. I said okay,

14. I think something is happening, and i wanna go to the hospital. and I walked to the

15. hospital,

16. and uh.. they checkt me in everything, and they send me home? nothing is happening?

17. so.. I went home, and I walkt. I just kept moving and moving and moving. and I went

18. back to the hospital, and they said.. well.. why don't we call the doctor.

19. And they kind of sat me down, and the doctor come.

20. and said.. well we can give you medication to soften you survix .and it take about a day

21. and a half.

22. So.. he did. and it took like a day and a half.

23. Then they gave me something once my survix is soften enough, with this medicine..

24. they gave me medicine, to add officially stop my contraction, they gave me potassium.

25. I took another 12 hours, until it was time to push.

26. and.. then when it was time to push, it took three hours to finally get the baby out.

27. They were very concern when I was pushing, Catharine. because it was taking so long.

28. and I was getting.. getting tired. and they said.. well.. we can give, give you a.. a mirror.

29. and i said, wha? what do you mean? and they said.. we gonna put it, put a morror up, and

30. if you can.

31. because sometimes if you see the baby, it gonna motivate you. and I said..no, I don't

32. want it. I don't want that. don't do that for me. and they said... they will put it up, and if

33. you like it, we will keep it. and if you don't like it, we will move it away. I said that is

34. fine. and so i pushed,

35. and I saw the baby's head? hair, and skin, and I got really really motivated after that.

36. because you know, that is my goal? that is the end? inside? and there she was?

37. I saw the little hair. her hand, skin, kind of a blue underneath.

38. and so.. once I saw that, they pushed everything out of the way, and they got her out of

39. me,

40. and she cried .. wa ..wa ..wa, hhhh, her sound, um.. I wasn't too terribly interested in it, because i was so dam tired. and ..they brought a rapture, and Todd went over with her, they clean her up, and everything. and they brought her back to me,

41. and they put her on my chest. and she got quite? she looked at me, and I looked at her, and they picked her up,

42. and took her to the nurse aid.

43. I have never been exhausted in my entire life. and I was so forced to bond with her, all at the same time. things are fine today. she is really a good kid.