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The miracle of birth can quickly become a very complicated and confusing affair when delivery room drama starts flaring up. Fights with doctors, peculiar comments, and even partners accidentally leaving the moms going into labor at home are just the tip of the iceberg.

Reddit users shared the most intense, wildest, and weirdest things they’d witnessed in the delivery room after user u/Roach2791 started up a thread on r/AskReddit asking them exactly that. One thing’s for sure, the thread increased our respect for the doctors and nurses who have to keep the situation under control under these extremely emotional conditions, alongside their actual jobs.

If you think that delivery rooms and hospitals are drama-free zones, then these stories are likely to change your mind. Scroll down and have a read, Pandas. Let us know what you think about these situations in the comments. And if you feel like sharing, why not tell us about the bizarre things that you’ve seen as well?

I reached out to Labor and Delivery (L&D) Nurse Holly D. to learn the secrets to staying calm in the delivery room, how medical professionals can keep the situation in control if there's drama, and how important communication is for professionals and parents.

L&D Nurse Holly stressed how vital it is that medical professionals "remained unbiased and focused on the safety of the patient" no matter the exact details of the situation in the delivery room or the hospital. "Safety in a delivery room for the baby and mother come first above all else. Ensuring your patient is safe mentally, emotionally, and physically during this time is vital. Reminding the parties involved in the drama why we are all here can help diffuse and refocus the energy. We can ask involved parties (not the patient) to leave and return at a later time due to the circumstances of the situation. However, if things become unsafe and nurses are unable to diffuse the situation security will be called," she told Bored Panda.

You'll find my full interview with Holly as you scroll down. Meanwhile, you can visit her TikTok and Instagram for her insights about her job.

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35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room My great grandmother had 13 children. Somewhere around number 5 or 6 she made it as far as the front lawn of the hospital and gave birth. The next pregnancy she only made it as far as the elevator and was totally mortified. The nurse on staff tried to reassure her by saying "it's okay, last year someone gave birth on the front lawn." She had the rest of her babies at home.

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According to nurse Holly, how we stay calm can depend a lot on who we are as people and on how intricate the circumstances are. "The most effective way of remaining in control and calm in these moments as the patient is communicating with your medical team. Open up to the team about your thoughts, fears, and questions from the start," she said.

"The healthcare team can begin to walk you through common scenarios as well as possible emergency situations before they happen. By doing this it permits parents to ask additional questions that would arise in these scenarios, as well as give a 'sense of calmness' during an emergency," she explained to Bored Panda.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Workmate of mine is about to become a dad in the next week. His wife has been getting to know the nurses at their local hospital and listening to some of the stories....

    One day a bloke came running down the ward hallway screaming for help that his wife was in labour and they needed the docs to come quickly! The nurses looked around curiously and asked him "ok... so where is she?"

    The colour from the bloke's face drains for a second as he thinks this over...

    "OH S**T!" and he legs it out of there.

    40 minutes later he returns with wife in tow. In his initial rush, he'd packed change of clothes, the car seat, camera gear, high tailed it to the hospital and left the missus at home!

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room A doctor was delivering the baby via ventouse, a vacuum extraction. He was pulling, and you do honestly have to put some muscle into it, those babies are stuck pretty fast in there sometimes. Anyway, the suction cap came off the baby's head, this happens a lot. The father of the baby thought that the doctor had pulled so hard that he had pulled the baby's head off, so naturally punched the doctor in the jaw, who went straight down to the ground like a felled tree. Much yelling ensued, people holding the father back, him realising that the baby was fine once we pointed out that the head was still inside, unconscious doctor being pulled into a chair, another doctor coming in to do the delivery, the mother crying hysterically.

    We had to have a quick and frantic conversation at the midwives' station about whether to allow the father to remain in the room. We decided that from his vantage point it may have appeared that the baby's head had been, uh, removed and that he had a momentary loss of reason. He was also hugely apologetic and took responsibility for his actions. The doctor who got punched took every opportunity afterwards to tell that story as often as possible and we all laughed.

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    Communication is the bedrock of quality work and care. Nurse Holly believes that it should be maintained at all times, no matter how complex, intense, or dramatic the situation. In fact, it becomes even more valuable in those types of situations.

    "Communication is necessary in Labor and Delivery between the medical team and the patient/parents. Miscommunication or lack of communication can lead to mistakes and chaos between both dynamics. Communication throughout the duration of the patient's stay should be expected," she highlighted.

    "During emergencies in Labor and Delivery communication between parents and medical team should be available. Great practice is designating knowledgeable personnel to walk parents through the emergency situation as it is happening, this could be a nurse. This allows parents to understand the priority of the situation, also this allows questions to be asked and decisions to be made by parents during the emergency. Although the situation is moving fast communication should be kept at priority between all."
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    I gave birth in an emergency room hallway, courtesy of having sudden onset preterm, super short labor. We had JUST moved to a new town and they did not have a full hospital, only a stand alone ER.

    So husband goes casually cruising up the freeway on the way to the hospital 30 minutes away and I had a feeling s**t was about to go down, saw a sign for the ER and just screamed at him to pull off.

    We get into the ER and they immediately call an ambulance to take me to a hospital with a NICU. Paramedics are literally wheeling me down the hall to the ambulance when my daughter started crowning.

    They rounded the corner of the ER to get to an area with some space and the dude in the room right next to us was in cardiac arrest. So this poor ER is completely empty except the screaming pregnant woman birthing a preterm infant in the hallway and the elderly gentleman dying.

    My daughter wound up being solely delivered by the 2 paramedics who were transporting me because the ER doc was busy running the code and the 2 nurses on staff were flying EVERYWHERE. They were running in and out of the other guys room with meds and fluid, sprinting around with the baby isolette, etc.

    The other patients' family is clustered in the hallway staring at my gaping vagina while also crying over their dying relative. When my daughter let out her first cry there was a paltry round of cheers from that family and then they all went back to their crying. Meanwhile my husband is curled up in a waiting room chair heavy breathing from light headedness and everyone is ignoring his feeble cries for water. He was literally acting like he was about to die.

    In the end no one died, baby was fine, husband passed out, and 5 years later I became a paramedic.

    It was 0600 AM, hence the minimal staffing.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room This is actually my grandfather's birth sometime in the 1920s: my great grandma was giving birth at home, on the reservation (Apache), and as the labor kicked in full swing, a crow or raven landed on the windowsill.

    Now, this is a bad omen, it means someone is going to die or has died. Needless to say, my great x2 aunts and great grandma's mother started straight tripping, shooing the bird and whatnot. Bird would not f*ck off, looked at my great grandma and squawked.

    Grandpa was born a few minutes later, while someone is trying to get the crow to go away. Crow flies off the minute the baby cries. A few minutes later, someone rode up on horseback to tell everyone that my great great grandfather had passed away about 15 minutes beforehand. That was right when the crow had landed on the sill.

    Family legend says that grandpa was his reincarnation.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room I was once present at the birth of a very white baby to not white parents. The parents spoke a different language to staff and there was this awkward silence while staff tried desperately not to exchange eye contact or stare at the father for his reaction. After a while, it was obvious that the father either hadn't noticed or didn't care, as he looked delighted and was chatting to the mother happily.

    Subsequently determined albinism ran in the man's family.

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    Some time ago, nurse Holly gave me some in-depth insights about her job and how some parents, especially dads, behave while their partners are in labor.

    “On average I would say that approximately 1 in 10 are unsupportive and/or insensitive dads. There tend to be a lot more dads that don’t know how to support their significant others in labor, but I wouldn’t say those dads are insensitive, they just need guidance," Holly told Bored Panda during an earlier interview.

    “As a nurse in Labor and Delivery we do a lot of coaching and educating the support person to help their significant others through labor,” Holly said that a nurse’s job involves a lot of human contact and communication.

    "Their place and presence in the labor/delivery room is noticeable and can be iconic for your laboring wife or significant other. It’s okay to not know what to do, but being mentally and emotionally present is essential," the nurse explained that anyone who is in the delivery room to support the mom is playing a vital role.
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    Doctor here, I have only ever 'delivered' one baby...(sorry for formatting, on my phone)

    So I'm in medical school on my obstetric rotation. I'm doing a late night shift cuz I just want to see some births (labor lasts forever, yo). 20s something schizophrenic woman comes in, laboring with her 6th child. Her mother apparently has custody of the other kids, kind of a sad situation. Police had to break her door down because she went into labor and continuously screamed "I'm not giving birth to Satan's baby! This is Satan's baby!" The doctor I'm with looks unamused and just says to the nurse "sedate her a bit, we'll do a c section if she refused to push, etc". After about 30 minutes and some sedating drugs the doctor tells me to go in and do a pelvic exam and to report to him how far along things are. He went in with me, and then got called out as I'm putting on gloves, saying he'll be back in a minute. I introduce myself to the patient, explain what I'm doing and start the examination. I feel a contracting sensation and next thing I know a baby's head pushes my hands out and I'm holding a screaming newborn. I am so in shock I am just staring at the baby and I start to feabily scream, "I, uh, need, uh, some help here!"

    Everything was well with the baby and mom. I had to throw away my socks and shoes.

    I forgot the best part, where the mother goes, "what's your name, I'll name it after you!" It was a boy, I'm female, she insisted I give her my name. I didn't want to screw up this kids life so I said Henry.

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    Baby daddy is so exicited about the birth. We ask mom if she wants to do skin to skin bonding with the baby. She says yes. We go to put baby on her chest and baby daddy rips his shirt off and is stoked to do skin to skin. A for effort dude!

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    This was a nice intense, and for the record, I'm a midwife. In Australia and the UK, midwives deliver the vast majority of babies.

    Anyway. there was a woman who was in labour with her fifth child, she and her husband already had four girls. She knew that they were having a boy, but he didn't (he hadn't wanted to know the gender). He really, really wanted a boy, not for sexist reasons or anything like that, and I know that he was a wonderful father to his daughters and wouldn't treat the son any different, but he just wanted a son.

    He sat in the corner, reading the paper for basically the whole birth. He wasn't ignoring his wife or anything, she didn't want him to touch her while she was in labour, that was just how she went about birthing (she also didn't want the midwives to touch her, so we stayed as hands off as possible). When the baby was finally born she broke out in a sweaty grin, looked at me and said, 'Tell him.' I told him that the baby was a boy and he raced around the bed to give his wife a hug and a kiss and to meet his firstborn son. He was crying and laughing and just absolutely overjoyed by the birth of the baby.

    That was a good birth :)

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    "Labor is no easy task, and it comes in all variations. Talk with your partner about their expectations and desires during labor, be adaptable as things progress, and be mentally and emotionally supportive of them. I guarantee your experience in the labor room will be unforgettable and you will develop more appreciation for your significant other during labor,” she said.

    "I fell in love with L&D when I had my first child, and I knew this was where I needed to be. I am inspired daily when I work with my patients as to just how incredibly strong women are. I love being able to support women during this time by encouraging, laughing, praying, and even crying with them and still being able to guide them through a moment in their life they will never forget."
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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Oh. Friends a midwife. Baby comes out looking very very Asian to an apparently white couple. Lots of umms and looks.

    Turns out that the father was mixed race on his mums side and she never mentioned it.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Holy cow, have I got a story for you. I’m not a doctor. This was my husband’s birth in 1944. His mom was in labor in a small town birthing home. It was literally in the local doctor’s home. Mom was in a back room with the doctor and a nurse. My husband’s dad was in the waiting room (living room). The doctor came out and told dad there were complications: he could save mom or save the baby. Dad had to choose. My father-in-law got up, walked out, got a gun out of his truck and came back in. He pointed the gun at the doctor and said both better live or the doctor wouldn’t. Then dad sat down on the couch with the gun in his lap. I’ve tried to imagine that doctor’s state of mind at that moment. He went back into the room with the laboring mother and ended up pulling the baby out with forceps. Mother and baby lived. So did the doctor. My husband’s skull is a testament to this story. It’s like craters on the moon. I’m grateful he’s never gone bald.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a roller coaster ride! Lord!!! Happy everything "came out" OK. And bless your heart regarding your husband's head. :)

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    doctors try their best regardless of threats to their life. they just had the decency of asking the father to choose in case worse come to worst. I HATE THIS STORY what is this a gangster movie???!!!???

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You sure about that? My little brother had an operation done on his genitals when he was a year old (his urethra had to be corrected). While he was in recovery the medical staff went on strike and there was no one taking care of the patients, no one would change his bandages no matter how much my parents begged. In the end when my brother was on the verge of developing gangrene my dad took his gun and threatened the surgeon into cleaning and redressing his wounds. He could have had permanent damage due to negligence. Doctors are human and unfortunately some of them are pos. Btw, we're not in the US. My dad has a gun bcs of his job.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then grandpa, was arrested and sent to prison for death threats? If not This is one of the reasons we have so many school shootings , bad actions with weapons are almost NEVER punished.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a f****d up tell... threatening the doctor?!! However, seems like nothing had changed since 1944. Guns will always provide you what you're asking for.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And also, the stuff that you're not asking. This was the happy end.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s not ok to threaten medical personnel. We take that very seriously these days, thank goodness. I’ve had some patients say they were just joking and I tell them if they say anything else like that they’ll have charges pressed.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What was probably really going on was that the doctor was thinking that he might have to do a C-section, and that the mother was unlikely to survive a c-section in the doctor's home. That was what doctors (not midwives) were telling husbands in centuries past, when they asked which to save, they meant that the only way to save the baby was to perform a c-section without antibiotics or anesthesia, which was a death sentence for the mother. And this, BTW, was why physicians and not midwives attended queens and not midwives, because physicians could save the baby, the heir, when a midwife could not. Amazing to think this was still going on in 1944, when hospitals existed and a woman with access to good medical care could survive one.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably depends on what country they were in whether there were hospitals handy.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty sure this is an urban legend. I've read this story on several different forums with different states and details. For non Americans, just another example of how Americans think guns solve everything.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretty sure this has happened more than once IRL. "Urban legend" based in truths.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am not ok with this story it is not sweet it is horrific and that father was extreme and in the wrong

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And threatening death was going to make the doctor do his job better...? Grandpa is an a-hole.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's awful. You are talking about a doctor being threatened with a lethal weapon while trying to do his job. I'm glad everyone lived, but that's still a horrific story and a completely unacceptable way to treat anyone, let alone a doctor trying to save lives.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing like a little extra incentive bonus to reward a job well done.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nasty story. Especially nasty that the doctor assumed it was the father's decision to make.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How incredibly cruel to ask that question!!! Proper behaviour is to say there are complications, and dr/ whoever will do their very best..but be prepared for severe issues......

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The doctor had my grandfather make that decision with their first child, he said "whats the matter with you? save my wife!". He thought the idea of prioritizing a unborn babies life or his partner and best friend was the stupidest thing he had ever heard. Both lived and they went on to have 5 more considerably easier births.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a d**k doctor for laying that ultimatum instead of bloody trying to save them both! Good on the fil.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As long as all well not brain damage or shootings...poor doctor all the same.. he did what he could and the mum's relief at the birth..

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They both better live or I’m gonna blow your brains out. Sounds like something my grandfather would have said if I or my mother couldn’t have mad it(we were both about to die)

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    What a badass dad……

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Obligatory not a doctor, but when my nephew was born, he was so ugly my sister didn't want to hold him, saying, serious as f**k, "put it back in, it's obviously not ready yet"

    She loves him to bits now, but we never let either of then forget it

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Not a doctor but a fire fighter. Got called for a pregnancy, baby already born. Get on scene and mom and daughter (who just gave birth) are arguing back and forth. Mom summed her argument up best with "I told ya you was pregnant"

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Husband was sitting in the corner playing candy crush on his wife’s phone whilst she was in labour, up popped a text message saying “does he know that it might not be his?”. Shouting ensued and he walked out and left the unit with her crying.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room One from a colleague of mine. One woman during her second stage (where you’re cervix is fully dilated and you can push the baby out) started pushing. As she did she passed what has been described to me as an utterly massive, 7.5 couric-worthy s**t, that just kept coming. The midwives had to receive it on a large pad and place it quickly on the nearest place which was the baby resuscitaire, as it was still coming. They then went back to the woman to catch the rest and clean up. As they moved back over to her she panicked and asked “is it breathing?!”. They had to get the husband to tell her it wasn’t the baby she’d passed.

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    When I was an intern we had a woman who was 8 months pregnant get crushed in a subcompact vs truck collision. Mom was pulseless on scene so EMS brought her in hot (ie, ongoing chest compressions, very unstable). We had about a 60 second warning in the ED to get the OBGYN crash team and the NICU response team down.

    It was clear mom wasn't going to make it. Blunt trauma arrests in the field survive about 1% of the time under the best of conditions. But we had to try to keep her alive so we could do a perimortem C-section to get the kid out. I was on the trauma team, so while I was working on trying to keep mom's circulation going to perfuse the uterus OB started the perimortem section. We opened the chest to start internal compressions and see if there was an aortic injury we could temporize.

    Sections are usually fast; perimortem sections are faster. From skin cut to baby out and over to NICU team was about 45 seconds. They started CPR because baby was severely bradycardic and essentially dead. That's when we found baby #2. Turns out mom was having twins.

    Now, in retrospect in turns out this twin had died in utero earlier and this was a known problem, but we didn't know that immediately. I joined the impromptou NICU team #2 as we tried to save #2. But it became clear this was futile and we abandoned efforts and turned all our resources to baby #1. We worked on that baby for over an hour but never was really able to get to a stable place. We were able to get the baby to the NICU but unfortunately arrested again and could not be resuscitated shortly after getting there. Likely catastrophic hemorrhage.

    The husband and father, who was in the car as well, was physically fine. He had some minor contusions. But when he told him what happened, that he had just lost essentially his whole family, poor man just collapsed. There was no crying, screaming, he just went down like a sack of potatoes. The expression on his face, though, with such immense sorrow and pain and suffering. I will never forget it.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room I worked as a hospital parking attendant manning the booth. A car pulled up and the woman was mid way pushing out her baby in the passenger seat. One relative in the back was giving her a back massage, one was fanning her, her kid was playing on his DS, and her husband in the driver seat nonchalantly smiled at me and asked for one ticket all while the mother just delivered her own baby looking calmed like it was a perfunctory task. I didn't know what to do so I just gave them free parking.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room The way my dad tells it, part way through labor with me my mum said "that's it, I'm done, I'm going home" and tried to get off the table. Mum claims not to remember this.

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    #19

    My first baby was born by emergency c-section and spent 5 weeks in the NICU. I wanted to try for a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) with my second. I was given a foley bulb induction at 39 weeks and 5 days. They put the bulb into my cervix and expanded it with fluid, and then it slowly expanded my cervix as it fell out. That took about 12 hours and was quite painful.

    Then I was given pitocin, but they cranked it up too high and I was having 6 or 7 contractions in a ten minute period and I was only at 5cm. They tried to turn it down. I got an epidural and was trying to get some rest when my shoulders started to hurt. I mentioned that I wished the epidural was in my neck so I wouldn't feel my shoulder pain, which I assumed was from lying on my side.

    My husband says at that point I passed out as my blood pressure dropped and about seven doctors and nurses rushed into the room. They pumped me full of epinephrine and stuff. They thought I was having an amniotic embolism or a heart attack. I got rushed to a c-section.

    I remember thinking, as they were pushing me down the hall, that the movies get it totally right. The lights on the ceiling did that streaming by thing they show in movie scenes.

    They opened me up to discover that my uterus had ruptured and my baby's hand was coming through into my stomach cavity, which was full of blood and amniotic fluid. It was quite gruesome.

    Baby was fine, but my husband was convinced I was going to die. I didn't, obviously.

    I was bitterly disappointed about not doing a VBAC and I've had people ask me why I "chose" to have a c-section many times. It has really done a number on me emotionally.

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    #20

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room The baby’s father was caught cracking open the anesthesia cart and stealing meds. When police officers came to arrest him, he was sobbing and kept saying over and over “y’all aren’t going to let me see my baby be born?” and the officers were both like um nope should’ve thought about that before

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    #21

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Ambulance officer here.

    Got dispatched to "17 year old female, difficult pregnancy. Caller statement: Baby born, didn't know was pregnant. Can't find umbilical cord."

    Whooooa boy...

    Get there, healthy baby girl born. Mother and grandmother sitting on floor, blood everywhere. Both emotionally shocked. Umbilical cord right where it should be. Grandmother holding baby, outstretches arms and hands me the baby without words while my partner checks out mum.

    Grandma comes to me and just says "I thought she was a virgin!"

    Mother had texted grandmother while at work to say "Mum, come home, I've had a baby."

    The tension in that room... Holy cr*p.

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    #22

    When I was having a c section I was jamming out to Journey looped on the epidural. I noticed that people started walking around carefully and my husband turned kind of green, but everyone’s response was “it’s okay, you’re doing great, baby’s great, just finishing up!”

    Only after I was in recovery did they tell me the end of the suction tube came loose and sprayed blood all over the floor and everyone was covered in it and leaving bloody footprints everywhere. Lol, good times.

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    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Father broke down, started yelling at his wife that they can't afford it. She flushes red with anger and embarrassment like "NOW you think is a good moment to bring this up to me? You want me to go back in time for you?" Older child, like 5-6, was in the room too, staring and looking terrified. I tried to calm the father down and he just stormed out. I was delivering a pizza though, not a baby.

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    #24

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Mom doesn't want to push because she doesn't want to poop. I tell her she better get used to poop because that's what babies do. She pushes and a giant turd comes out, then baby. Then baby poos on the floor as I'm handing him off. Supervising doc asks me why the room smells like s**t.

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    #25

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room When I was a nursing student doing my OB rotation, a group of us watched our first delivery. There was no time to do an epidural because the baby was ready and he wasn’t waiting.

    After the baby’s delivered, the first thing the dad says is ‘You can rub it my ex’s face that you did it natural.’

    It wasn’t a huge dramatic thing but everyone in the room just kinda looked at each other. Like buddy, your son was just born and you’re more excited to one up your ex?

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    #26

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Im a doctor but this is not my story. There was this couple who were gonna birth their first. The father though had already a child from a previous marrige. So when it was time for labour, instead of being supportive and calm and leaving it to the proffesionals. The father went bats**t and started screaming ”my previous wife wasnt in this much pain, something is wrong”. That is excactly what a woman in labour would like to hear

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    #27

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Not a doctor but security guard outside delivery room. I just remember cracking up(wtf moment) as one lady was screaming she would not have her baby born on Hitler's birthday.

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    #28

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room My parents took those birth classes and were ready to go natural, but had the anesthesiologist on standby. After some pretty bad contractions my mom gave in and asked for the epidural. My dad went and talked to the anesthesiologist, came back and whispered in my mom's ear "he said it's 500 for it. In cash". Another contraction came through, and along with it a crack opened on the earth's crust and my mom screamed "FIND A F**KING ATM".

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    #29

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Not a doctor but am a midwife. We do home delivery in the US. One labor mom was on the bed just working through the contractions. Dad was sitting next to the bed looking at p*rn. I gave him a look and he knew I caught him. No remorse just angled the screen better. Later on same Dad was just slamming shots and beers. After baby was born he refused to put on the first diaper or hold his daughter. We needed to transfer the baby in due to some blood sugar issues. I go find his drunk ass playing video games in the kitchen. I told him we needed to go in. He was so pissed off he said now?!! Its three in the morning. Yeah dude now. I drove the car because he was so wasted he couldn't even stand. Lots more but thats one of the worst.

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    #30

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Wife just gave birth and we asked that same question to our nurse. She told us about the time a guy brought in his pregnant wife and his pregnant girlfriend. The doctors thought that they were going to try and kill each other so they kept them on separate floors. All the nurses thought the guy was a complete and utter douchebag.

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    #31

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Baby daddy and baby grandma are in delivery room. We're setting up the table to deliver and cheerfully ask "okay dad, want to cut the cord?". Baby daddy loses his s**t "not if this she devil is in the room" and points to baby grandma. They get into a yelling match and meanwhile the patient and I make awkward eye contact and while the nurse and the other resident try to calm them down, we deliver the baby and I cut the cord.

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    #32

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Mom's cousin is with her as she rolls in at 9 cm with her 3rd kid. She's snapchatting pictures of herself posing next to mom who looks very uncomfortable. We deliver baby whom she deems her "sexy lil nephew" MA'AM HE IS FIVE MINUTES OLD.

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    #33

    Not a doctor, but my (now ex) mother in law got mad because I didn't want anyone in the delivery room other than my husband so she ran around the hospital hiding. (Now ex) Husband almost missed the birth because he was too busy trying to find her and calm her down.

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    #34

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Mom asks if the baby is mixed....in front of baby daddy who is the same race.

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    #35

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room I know my mom punched a nurse and my dad when she was giving birth to me, they had to restrain her. No wonder I turned out the way I did.

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    #36

    couple with no prenatal care shows up in labor. End up needing a c section. We get the baby out and I'm closing up when the baby daddy starts yelling at us and accusing us of being not real doctors. We keep on going and ignore him. Demands to talk to the ceo of the hospital. Keeps on standing up and looking over the drape. At one one point he is behind me until the nurse gets him to sit down. Finally we finish up as he's yelling at us. She never shows up for follow up appointments but later ends up with a surgical site infection. They try to sue us. I always wonder if there was some underlying abuse there.

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    #37

    When I did rounds for EMT we had to work a shift in Labor and Delivery. We assisted in multiple deliveries (major hospital so it was full). The one that stuck with me was a young Hispanic girl. Delivery was easy and normal but the vibe was just weird. The father was in the room as well as one set of parents. All three stood in the corner and never spoke a word or supported her in any way. I’m not even sure if they came over and looked at the baby. Hope she got better support later on. Come to think about it she never made a sounds either. No yelling/screaming or crying.

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    #38

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room When I was being born, my dad kept complaining to my mom (while she was giving birth) about how hungry he was and that his stomach hurt. She just kid of gave him one of those "Seriously?" looks which made him more mad so he went outside and ordered a pizza to be delivered to the delivery room.

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    #39

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room My mom brought her special blanket with her to the hospital. It got picked up with all of the dirty delivery linens and tossed in the laundry room. My mom had dislocated her hip and broken her pelvic bone during delivery, so my aunt and grandma had to dig through nasty hospital laundry to find it, only for baby me to shred it to bits months later.

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    #40

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Not a doctor, but was the man in the room. My wife was giving birth to her ex-fiances child, and he burst into the room when she was in labour. Waving a foam "we are number 1" finger. After being absent for 7.5 months. I was sort of pissed at him, but allowed Jim to stay for the birth of his daughter. All in all, we were happy and s**t. I divorced her last year though.

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    #41

    My mom passed out in the middle of delivering me. Grandma wouldn't let mom get epidural so ig it was too painful for her. They had to pull me out with the clamp.

    For the birth of my sister my mom got to the hospital a little earlier and promptly fell asleep. Woke up mid crowning and gave birth.

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    #42

    Because of complications during pregnancy, a specialist needed to be present when I was born. Apparently the doctor/specialist was on vacation when my mom was admitted and he showed up before the birth in full hunting gear from duck hunting and changed out at the hospital.

    I was then born with a cone shaped head. They had to unroll the beanie all the way to fit my head lol

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    #43

    35 People Share The Wildest Things They Witnessed In The Baby Delivery Room Not a Dr, an Emergency Nurse. We had a man bring in his wife in labour, all goes well, but she didn't make it upstairs to L&D, baby born, everyone happy. Dad is on his phone texting furiously, we thought he was spreading the news. 30 mins later he walks out of the area where his wife and brand new baby were, into another area where it turns out his side bint was with THEIR sick Son. He was very lucky it was the middle of the night so no other Family were present to have possibly discovered his secret.

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    #44

    My dad's a doctor who delivers babies and I've heard him retell this one over the years: This woman's final push also pushes out a massive s**t. Her baby pops out and slips face-first, directly into the giant poo. Plenty of women poop while giving birth, but I guess this was a particularly MASSIVE s**t, which still has him laughing to this day.

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    #45

    Not a doctor but just something I thought was funny about my birth. My Dad, avid hunter guts animals like nothing nearly passed out and was kicked out of the room by my pissed off mother while she was giving birth. But they had to wake me up to be born. Took this little thing she said looked like an electric razor that vibrated and put it on one side of her stomach and the other side almost instantly shot out 8" because i rocketed to the other side

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    #46

    Obligatory not a doctor but my husband almost missed the birth of our second child because he has nervous diarrhea. He went to the bathroom and I was comfortably dosed with epidural. Came out to me pushing.

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    #47

    Not a doctor, but apparently this confused the ones present and my living to adulthood wasn't expected at all.

    I was a super early baby, tiny and sick. I came out the colour black, because I was freezing. I had a bunch of problems, but to solve this in particular they tried almost immediately to wrap me in insulating fabric and put me on a radiator in the room. Not a specially made one, not an incubator or anything, a literal radiator. My mother said f**k it and held me instead. Apparently I got colour shortly after.

    I still really want to know why you'd put a baby on a radiator. They had the facilities there to warm me for other reasons later, so the radiator makes no sense.

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    #48

    My birth was a bit crazy.

    My mum started getting contractions during cooking the Christmas dinner and eventually had to give up on that and go to the hospital. Unfortunately on the way in the ambulance (or when they arrived at hospital) they found baby me was in distress with my cord around my neck and we'd have to go to a different hospital. One bumpy ambulance trip later my mum arrived and the nurses about were a bit tipsy having some Christmas celebrations at work. I was born eventually just after midnight and there was a powercut. My mum was put in a room with broken heart monitors. My grandma and great grandma (dad's side) came to visit and brought a gift of an open box of used tissues. My mum has a photo of both looking at her holding baby me, them looking kinda creepy and my mum holding me like they just asked for my feet to make soup.

    So my birth ruined Christmas dinner for my family, I tried to strangle myself with my own umbilical cord, shat myself in my mum and scared her senseless, leading her to have a kid a nightmare to sort birthdays out for.

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    #49

    Not a doctor but this is actually the story of my birth. My mom was at a party that had over 50 people when she went into labor. They rushed her into the car and took her to the hospital but they kept getting lost because they couldn’t figure out the directions. They eventually made it to the hospital and within less than an hour, the whole party moved into the delivery room. I was born a few hours later and when the doctors initially saw me, they thought that I was dead. They started freaking out until they realized that I was sleeping. The doctors literally thought that I was dead because I was sleeping when I was born. They obviously had to wake me up and I cried because that was a damn beautiful nap. If they didn’t, the amniotic fluid in my lungs would basically kill me because I wouldn’t be able to breathe.

    ~a few days later~ My mom had an allergic reaction and they had to give her some medicine that would poison me if I was breastfed. So yeah.. I almost died twice

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