Thanks to Cafe Mom for this one...
Some moms are lucky to have an easy delivery in the labor room, and then there’s TikToker Amy Dunbar. Her experience is enough to make some mamas jealous and she shared it in response to a prompt looking for ridiculous birth stories. “This one was made for me,” she says in the video, adding that she had been in labor for about 12 hours when doctors finally gave her an epidural.
“They figured out very quickly that it wasn’t working,” she recalls. “So they did whatever it is that they do to make it work.” And that meant that after 13 hours, Dunbar finally got some sleep. She explains that a nurse came in to check on her while she was snoozing and told her mom she just saw a big contraction on the monitor and that if she was sleeping through it, that means the epidural was working because she didn’t feel it.
Dunbar says not even a minute later, the nurse woke her to say she’d lost the baby’s heartbeat on the monitor and needed her to flip over so she could find it. She did as instructed and while adjusting her blanket, she made a shocking discovery… her baby was in the bed with her.
”She had delivered herself while I was asleep,” Dunbar explains. “That big contraction the nurse saw was her being born.” In the follow-up video, she explains that they called for help and doctors and nurses flooded the room and after making her quiet entrance to the world, her baby girl was just fine.