A Birth Story | Birmingham Maternity Hospitals

You’re searching for one of the best Birmingham Maternity Hospitals? Consider this a happy little break in all your research to sit back with a cup of coffee (or decaf coffee or tea if you’re trying to cut back on the caffeine!) and enjoy a beautiful birth story. This has become my favorite part of my webpage. The weekly birth story feature. This one was so riveting I had to split it up into two parts! Make sure you read part one HERE if you haven’t yet. Does it take place is one of the many Birmingham Maternity hospitals? No. But it comes from a local Alabama mom who had a wild experience giving birth in South Korea!

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A Birth Story | Birmingham Maternity Hospitals

Read PART ONE here

PART 2 – Kimberlyn’s Birth Story – January 21, 2019 at Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital (S. Korea)

Even though they were speaking Korean it was obvious to me that everyone started to panic. In that moment I began to cry and panic myself because I didn’t know what was going on, I didn’t know where my baby was on the ultrasound, and I was in excruciating pain. One of the nurses looked at me and said “up” I had no idea what that meant, and did not have time to ask because they started to wheel me in the hall and into the elevators. 

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A Birth Story | Birmingham Maternity Hospitals

My husband rushed to my side, seeing that I was clearly panicking, and grabbed my hand.  In that moment I felt safe and calm…but only for a moment. My husband asked about the ultrasound and I told him what had happened while we were in the room. I could tell there was something wrong by the look on his face. He grabbed my hand and said “Babe, don’t be mad, ok?”…. now…. Needless to say, this was not the best thing to say to a panicking woman in labor. I looked at him and said “Well, hell, if I wasn’t mad before, I damn sure am now! What?!” And he tells me, “You’re 9 going on 10 cm dilated. They can see her head. We have to go. We’re going to have a baby!”

I was not excited in this moment because: I felt horrible physically! I had a fever and had not been able to eat all day. I had had zero pain medicine whatsoever, no epidural and I had stressed myself into a panic attack. We made it into the prep (or pre) delivery room and everyone was running around like chickens with their heads cut off! We were in that room for maybe 10 mins and all of a sudden a feeling I can’t describe came over me. 

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A Birth Story | Birmingham Maternity Hospitals

I felt my body pushing on its own. I was not doing anything and my body’s natural response to childbirth kicked in. The doctors came running in and screaming “No!”. But I told them “I can’t stop it!”. We had no other choice but to have her at that point.  Delaying would have put our daughter in danger. My body temp had reached 104 and I was becoming short of breath. She was in distress from me being sick. I began to scream because the pain was unlike anything I had ever endured in my entire life.

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A Birth Story | Birmingham Maternity Hospitals

To my absolute shock, the nurse to my right kept telling me to hush/stop screaming. I later found out that in asian cultures it is not customary to scream and show pain while in child birth. But, unfortunately for her, I did not know this. At one point during my labor she reached over to put her hand over my mouth to keep me quiet. I saw her hand coming towards my mouth and out of instinct I grabbed it and slammed it into the bed rail next to me. Her wrist snapped so loud everyone stopped what they were doing for a split second. She picked her hand up and you could see her left wrist dangling. I had broken her wrist. I screamed for her to get out and proceeded to push. Our daughter was finally born and was a healthy 8 pounds, 13 ounces and 20 inches long! 

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A Birth Story | Birmingham Maternity Hospitals

I am very thankful for this body of mine for bringing both my beautiful babies into this world. If I can say it so bluntly my body “did the damn thing” when it came down to it. But I am also going through a hard time accepting it. Since our oldest we’ve had a few miscarriages. In August of 2019 when our oldest was 8 months old we lost our first baby to miscarriage. May 2020 we had our second miscarriage. Finally, in July 2021 we welcomed our second baby girl into this world but, unfortunately, in February of 2022 we had our third miscarriage. While I am thankful that my body has brought these two miracles earth side I feel that God humbles us sometimes and lets us see just how much of a miracle our kids really are. Even on the hardest of days I look at our two babies and give a small thanks to God for letting me be able to bring them into this life. And I know I will get to see those 3 babies that had to leave us too soon in eternity someday.” 

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images of Kerrie’s husband and daughter, Kimberlyn

I bet you didn’t expect to come across a birth story from South Korea while you were researching Birmingham maternity hospitals, but I’m glad you’re here. Would you like to submit your birth story? Contact me HERE if you’d like to be considered for an upcoming feature.

While you’re here you might enjoy reading these:
A Birth Story | Alabama Maternity Photographer
A Birth Story | UAB Women & Infant’s Center
Birmingham Women’s Hospital | What to Pack for Your Birth

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