"Woman delivers own baby" or "she sure is a couch potato"

[depechemodefan]

I was looking up and obituary in the Houston Chronicle and came across this story:

March 17, 1959 sec. 4, p 13

Woman delivers own baby

Long beach, Cal- (AP)-Mrs. Virginia Smith delivered her own baby without hlep while watching televison from a couch in her living room.
"it was a good movie and I didn't want to turn it off," Mrs Smith explained Monday. She never did call a doctor, nor did she go to a hospital.
"They gave me too much anesthesia in the hospital for one of my deliverys," she said, "so I decided to have this baby at home."

She was watching "an old George Raft movie titled 'Lucky-Nick Cain'". It was her fifth child.

note: any misspelling is my fault


Um, wow.

[SengaKitty]

Are you serious? I wouldn't have been able to do it!

[depechemodefan]

Yep, seriously. There's more to the article, i'm just lazy to type, but other pertinent info:

Mrs. Smith, 38, felt the first labor pains about midnight. She yelled but failed to wake her husband, who had gone to bed.
Finally, by pounding on the wall she roused him in time to help.

She gave birth at 1:30 am Saturday.

[tropicsgoddess]

No way would I be able to do that at all...drug me up PLEASE !

[Kiwi]

*snerk*

I wonder if she called it Chester?

cookies for the reference!

[AnaKhouri]

I guess by the 5th kid, you probably know what you're doing!

And in 1959 there were no VCRs or Tivo, after all.

[dalesys]

My ex had our 5th ('80) and 6th ('85) at home with a midwife. I could go to the hospital if I wanted (with somethings broken) but she wasn't!

And if I wasn't there to help/support I'd get a lot more broken when I came home.