# My baby was born! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659 "2004-01-22T19:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/1 "2004-01-22T19:40:41Z")
January 19th, just after midnight, baby Sam came into the world. He’s my 4th baby, and measures in at 8.5 lbs and 21 inches. Like all my children, he was born without doctors, drugs and hospitals. He was born in a hot tub and straight into my arms. The whole family is healthy and doing well. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/2 "2004-01-22T19:57:00Z")
Welcome, young Earthling Sam! Soon you’ll learn many things. This is an interesting planet. Your parental units will give you a wide variety of information. Most of it will be true. Eventually, you’ll know which parts are false, if you are lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/3 "2004-01-22T19:59:53Z")
Congratulations! I admire you for the natural childbirth. I am expecting my first baby in July and I don’t know if I could do it. (But the hot tub sounds very appealing!) Glad you are all doing well. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/4 "2004-01-23T00:26:12Z")
A new born babe brings light to the cottage, warmth to the hearth, and joy to the soul. For wealth is family - family is wealth. Congratulations! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/5 "2004-01-23T00:37:52Z")
Congratulations **Autz** and family. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/6 "2004-01-23T00:49:57Z")
That’s great news! Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/7 "2004-01-23T09:12:58Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/8 "2004-01-23T10:54:56Z")
Yeah **Autz**! Congrats. I love new babies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/9 "2004-01-23T14:52:27Z")
Congratulations, **autz**! New Doper babies are always cause for celebration. And welcome to the world, **Samautz** , it’s big and wide and waiting for you! I expect to see you on the SDMB in about 15 years. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/10 "2004-01-23T15:01:39Z")
Congratulations, but after the birth did you have to change the hot tub water? ---
**Author:** ![mcms\_cricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mcms\_cricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcms_cricket)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/11 "2004-01-23T20:20:45Z")
Congratulations! That’s wonderful! I’m so glad that all went well and it was a positive experience I am so in awe of the no drugs, no doctors, no hospital thing. I, on the other hand, am trying to exactly determine my due date so that I can show up at the hospital and demand an epidural at least 24 hours before I go into labor! Cricket (due 2/23) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/12 "2004-01-23T23:31:13Z")
First off, a hearty congrats. Now… > [@autz](#): > > Like all my children, he was born without doctors, drugs and hospitals. He was born in a hot tub and straight into my arms. :eek: [sub]Btw this eek sucks[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![madline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@madline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madline)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/13 "2004-01-24T19:34:22Z")
I came across these articles in my Bizarre News email. Congratulations Autz!! I am glad you braved through your earlier fears. These articles make me wonder if I should have…Did this happen to you? Has this happened to anyone here? Post it if you have a story similar. ------------When I had my son they gave me an entrathecal (sp?) which is like an epidural but it doesn’t last as long. The nurse came in to check me, all she did was lay her hand on my thigh and I sat straight up in bed gasping. :eek: When she checked to see how far I was dilalated it felt so intense I couldn’t keep still. He was crowning so they wheeled me into the delvery room and I lost it. It felt so good!!! I was sobbing and I couldn’t be still. My son was born a few mintes later. Orgasms only last a few moments, this was like the orgasm’s peak extended. The only way I can describe it is unreal. 😃 –Melissa ---------- I can validate the occurance of orgasmic deliveries. It happened to me with my first delivery when I transcended all the medical/technical environment of the delivery room and ascended into what I now refer to as the Ultimate O. I thought I was totally around the bend, to the point of freakishness, but in the ensuing 22 years, have heard of more than I could have imagined. Good to have it dicussed in such a public forum as yours. --M [This is all very Earth-mother, empowering female creationism. It almost makes me jealous of the whole experience.] ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/14 "2004-01-25T04:09:30Z")
First, Congratualations & Blessings Autz! Hello Baby Sam- to paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut, welcome to Earth, there’s just one main rule- Goddammit, you have to be kind. Now you go, Boy! Who cleaned the hot tub? Finally, RE madline’s post on Orgasmic Deliveries- my God, I can see some Social Services dweeb totally freaking out over a report of that (just like some poor ladies a while back were hassled after asking if feeling aroused during breat-feeding was normal0. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/15 "2004-01-25T23:52:46Z")
Congratualtions! Another January 19th birthday, woohoo! I always like it as it seemed that I got my birthday off for Martin Luther King day:) ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/16 "2004-01-26T00:25:55Z")
Congratulations **autz**! And a big welcome to **babyautz** , the newest baby on (the) Dope! I know this sounds like a horrible pun, but who won the baby pool? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/17 "2004-01-26T02:47:21Z")
Congratz, **Autz** , and welcome aboard, **Sam**! ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/18 "2004-01-26T03:40:42Z")
Whoo, another water birth baby! Welcome to the world, Sam, and congratulations to you, Autz (and Mrs. Autz)! ---
**Author:** ![shannablu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@shannablu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannablu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-was-born/225659/19 "2004-01-30T04:22:35Z")
Congratulations on your newest addition **Autz**.