# A whole new meaning to "shake a leg"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-shake-a-leg/499276>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-shake-a-leg/499276 "2009-06-10T00:02:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-shake-a-leg/499276/1 "2009-06-10T00:02:30Z")

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[Mother give birth to baby in trouser leg.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191646/Mother-gives-birth-trouser-leg-baby-makes-unexpected-pain-free-arrival.html)

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-shake-a-leg/499276/2 "2009-06-10T00:04:25Z")

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Pain free and fast? We should all be so lucky!

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-shake-a-leg/499276/3 "2009-06-10T00:28:30Z")

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> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Pain free and fast? We should all be so lucky!

Amen!

My mom had six kids, and she always told us we were all born in the bedpan because she couldn’t convince the nurses that she was ready to deliver NOW.

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**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-shake-a-leg/499276/4 "2009-06-10T18:17:44Z")

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When I thought I was in labor with my first, I called my mother and asked her what labor pains felt like. She said, “I don’t know.” Did I mention she had four kids? She kept making other mothers in the hospital mad by coming in later and delivering sooner than they did.