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Birth scene--not about the song!

posted 16 years ago by islandgirl-6
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I bawl my head off every time I watch this part of the movie. It's almost exactly how my birth took place. My umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck 4 times(don't know what I was up to in there), cutting off my oxygen rate. While I'll probably never know exactly how my parents felt when this was happening, imagining my mother in a total state of panic and my dad being kicked out of the delivery room, left to sit in the waiting room alone, not knowing whether I would live or die, tears my heart out every single time. Anybody else have a connection like that to the movie?

[–] BethH24 16 years ago

I had a similar feeling towards this scene,as i was born three months premature.I know my mum haemorrhaged before she gave birth to me.While there wasn't anything wrong with my delivery,this scene still makes me sad because i think about what my mum must have gone through.She must have been scared before i was born,and after as no one knew if i was going to survive because i was so small.My heart stopped beating twice,I actually did die but obviously got revived again !.

I'm sorry to hear about your experience too.I guess we were both very lucky to survive !.

[–] always_keep_fighting 10 years ago

I think that most women who have had babies, especially difficult births, can identify with this part of the movie.
While not as traumatic as the above two postings, every time I see the scene where she is screaming and crying, "I gotta get it out! I gotta get it out!" I'm vividly reminded of my son's birth, when the epidural wore off way before he was born, and I could hear screaming and crying, them realized it was ME screaming, and the doctor and nurses telling me to stop pushing. It was terrifying. Till I heard him crying and knew he was ok.
I think every birth can be scary, those with complications even more so. Even for Dad, who is helplessly watching his wife go thru something over which he has no control at all.