Jordyn Kapustka
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When I Was Eighteen, My Mother Had Her Uterus Removed
My father always wanted the traditionally big Catholic family, but originally my mother never wanted any children. They compromised and agreed to have one child. After about ten months, my parents learned they were pregnant. They lived in Missouri at the time, and my mother planned to have an all-natural water birth, but those plans changed very quickly. My father was in the U.S. Army and received orders to report to a base in California. My mother was almost eight and half weeks pregnant and had to find a new doctor within weeks of giving birth. The doctor on base was already booked and my mother spent the last weeks of her pregnancy looking for any doctor who would be willing to take a patient as far into her pregnancy as she was. Eventually, she found a doctor and my brother was born safely in a hospital after five hours of labor. Upon holding my brother in her arms, my mother knew she wanted another child. She loved being a mother.
By Jordyn Kapustka6 years ago in Families
