Post by Adriana Velez
How many pushes did it take to bring your babies out into the world? I was pushing for an hour in a state of delirium, so it never even occurred to me to count the number of pushes. I would wager it was somewhere in the range of Oh My God and Too Many. Which is why I can hardly believe those super-short labor stories, like this one about the teen who delivered a baby with just two pushes. On an airplane. Seventeen-year-old Fatawmatt Kaba was about 38,000 feet in the air on a flight between South Africa and New York when she went into labor. Lucky for her, there were two doctors on board at the time. That baby was not waiting for anything.![]()
How many pushes did it take to bring your babies out into the world? I was pushing for an hour in a state of delirium, so it never even occurred to me to count the number of pushes. I would wager it was somewhere in the range of Oh My God and Too Many. Which is why I can hardly believe those super-short labor stories, like this one about the teen who delivered a baby with just two pushes. On an airplane. Seventeen-year-old Fatawmatt Kaba was about 38,000 feet in the air on a flight between South Africa and New York when she went into labor. Lucky for her, there were two doctors on board at the time. That baby was not waiting for anything.