BlogHer Baby Week Bloggers

When Discovery Health asked us if we had any bloggers who would be interested in sharing their birth stories for Baby Week, we sat down with some pink and blue (chocolate) cigars and asked them how much time they had.

Do we have bloggers who would like to tell their birth stories? From our publishing network of more than 1400 mommy (and daddy) bloggers, we have an awful lot of birth stories to tell.

Below, you'll find more than 20 moms with birth stories to tell. They'll make you laugh and cry and thank your lucky stars that THAT did not happen to YOU.

After you've been inspired by their birth stories, you're invited to log into BlogHer.com and post your own. If you have already blogged your birth story, we'd love it if you'd leave a link in the comments so we can come read and celebrate right along with you.

Minutes later, four tiny, yet perfect little bodies entered the world. It was over...or was it?

It wasn't until I looked down to see my arm covered with blood and bandaids...

My midwife told me to reach down and grab my baby. I reached down with one arm and...

I wasn't nervous, because they seemed pretty calm. And just as I was wondering if...

My ankles were so swollen I could barely wear socks. I had eggplant caponata...

In a slow, relaxed voice, I reported the pain to others to keep them apprised...

It's as though every week is baby week in Hollywood, with pregnancies and births...

I think somehow I knew when I found out I was pregnant that I would barely make it out alive.

I was pregnant but my hormone levels were low. The week that followed was like...

Let me tell you: there is nothing funny about racing toward a hospital that seems...

But the stork is a myth and every mother knows that pregnancy and childbirth are...

My biggest fear about labour was having a panic or anxiety attack, more than...

They took turns asking questions. "How long will it take?" "How bad will it hurt?"

Heck, I've been through 20 hours of labor and you want me to recover from that and...

Being pregnant for 42 weeks, laboring for four days and then pushing my son out...

I had a big contraction and threw up in the little plastic bowl I was holding...

The anaesthesiologist said, "we usually don't use this one, because it causes hallucinations..."

I would be one of those women who died in childbirth way back when...

My husband realized that when a normally well-mannered Southern woman grabs your...

I continued to lay there...weeping, while Joe got up and watched the doctors...

From unplanned pregnancy to life-threatening complications...

This is my wife," my husband said, introducing me. "This half-naked hot air balloon..."

Our baby emerged with wide open eyes and a startled look. No doubt she was feeling...

Don't miss Kristy Sammis from She Just Walks Around With It live Chattering two episodes from Discovery Health: Baby Week!

Kristy will Chatter Births Beyond Belief on Tuesday night at 8pm PT and Obese & Pregnant on Wednesday night at 8pm PT. Did we forget to mention that Kristy is pregnant with her first child... and due, oh, any time now...? Join the Chatter!