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As we celebrate Mother's Day ESSENCE moms share their birth stories and why becoming a mom transformed their lives.
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00:00being a mother has made me a badass being a mother just puts a new definition on bounce
00:09back having brought a life into this world like I made you inside me and I pushed you out like no
00:16one can tell me anything oh my god giving birth is crazy giving birth is such a big event I'm glad
00:28I made it through it and I have this beautiful baby at the end but my birth was definitely
00:33traumatizing I am terrified okay terrified of birthing younger moms it's like okay they're
00:42gonna be able to do it and it's gonna be fine moms who are older they tend to act as if it's going to
00:48be terrible it's going to be difficult you have a plan and mine didn't exactly go the way that I
00:54expected it to I was two weeks past my due date they decided to keep me overnight I've heard all
00:59these crazy stories it's like the worst pain of your entire life I didn't have that experience
01:05fortunately got the epidural but then the epidural slipped out while I was sleeping which was not fun
01:11because I woke up in excruciating pain and then I had to push out the baby without any pain medication
01:17the whole experience I was natural birth all the way I didn't get a Tylenol I got nothing my mother
01:24was very much like and that's not what I needed I needed my child's father he was like come on you
01:33can do this Cory you got this you got this you can push this child out and I did I just remember after
01:39my son was born just seeing him lying on the little table next to me and you know you wait all of these
01:49months to see what this person is going to look like and just see what their personality is going
01:53to be like and I just remember that moment so vividly and I just was like crying hysterically my
02:01son was out third push the nurses were all amazed the midwife was a mean the doctor was amazed it just
02:08goes back to show you how magical we are if we can get through all of that pushing out a child or going
02:13through major surgery we can do anything we're badass
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