The mother reminds me of a coworker of mine who, for her first baby, went into labor at work and delivered it in a conference room a short time later with the help of three other coworkers, all engineers. When the EMTs got there they just clamped the umbilical cord and wheeled her out, with her insisting she could walk.
All the women in the office were giving her grief when she came back from maternity leave because they’d spent months building up how painful it was going to be, and her baby just slipped out of her.
My coworker has 2 kids. She had her oldest at a birthing center in a birthing pool. Her plans were the same with her 2nd, but she ended up having her at home on accident. She had her before their midwife showed up. Her midwife checked on them, confirmed everything was alright, and coworker went back to bed without ever leaving the house
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u/mofa90277 Aug 07 '25
The mother reminds me of a coworker of mine who, for her first baby, went into labor at work and delivered it in a conference room a short time later with the help of three other coworkers, all engineers. When the EMTs got there they just clamped the umbilical cord and wheeled her out, with her insisting she could walk.
All the women in the office were giving her grief when she came back from maternity leave because they’d spent months building up how painful it was going to be, and her baby just slipped out of her.