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Drugs? No Drugs? At Home? Cesarian? Hospital? Home? After driving myself to the hospital with contractions that were 10 minutes apart, I had to argue with the nurses about being in labor. The woman kept telling me that since the machine said I wasn't in labor, I had to go home, even though I was falling to the floor every 5 minutes. She was acting as though I was wasting her time by being there! Finally, four hours after I got there, they decided to humor me and let me lay down on a gourney, at which point they scolded me harshly for peeing on the gourney. A short time later, they realized my water had broken. "Am I in labor NOW?!?" I asked them. They conceded that I was indeed in labor at that point. I was wheeled into a room and left there alone. When the clueless nurse Miss Twit finally returned, I was on my side with my back to her and she yelled at me saying, "I thought I told you not to push!!" I held up a finger (the index finger thank you very much) and wiped my mouth before falling back on the gourney. She exclaimed that I was farther along than she realized and left the room again. Some other woman eventually came in, being trailed by the clueless twit and checked me out, then told me to grab my knees and push. The next day I saw the woman at the recovery front desk and she was talking with some other women. She turned to me and said, "There was absolutely no warning with this one!" at which point I told her there was plenty of warning and asked if she could recall the four hours I was there trying to convince them I was in labor. The twit was nowhere to be found, which is a good thing because I probalby would have pulled her hair out. So I had natural childbirth (no drugs) in a completely unnatural setting (a hospital). Next time, I'm getting a midwife. How about you?