project

Appendix B

1. I remember when my daughter Catherine was born.

2. I got so big I gained 52 pounds.

3. I was so huge then came a point in my pregnancy when I couldn’t stop walking.

4. I walked with my mom with Todd, everyone eventually I walked to the hospital

5. because I thought I was felling some contractions,

6. but the nurse sent me home.

7. I went back to the hospital.

8. Finally they called a doctor, he gave me medicine to start labor.

9. It took a day and a half to work, then they gave me a different kind of medicine.

10. 12 hours later, I was ready to push. It took three hours to push my baby out.

11. I was getting so tired.

12. The nurse was losing hope threatening to give me a c-section.

13. finally they offered to give me a mirror.

14. the mirror would show me there where the baby was coming out.

15. I told them that I didn’t want it

16. , but they told me that if I don't like it they would take it away.

17. once I saw Catherine head poking out, I was so exited? there she was?

18. They moved everything out of the way then.

19. She came out very fast, and then she started crying.

20. so, Todd went with her while they arranged her.

21. After that they wrapped her up and then laid her on my chest,

22. when she looked at me, she stopped crying.

23. We stared at each other for a long time.

24. then they whispered her away to the nursery.

25. I was never so tired happy, excited, all at the same time.