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Hear from our hosts their experiences during labor and delivery and about the importance of trying to stay calm and relaxed during this time.

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Nina: Okay, We're back talking about anxiety. Now Kendall says when she delivers a baby, she delivers it one, two, three. Now I have 30 hour labor. For her it's no big work. She goes in, she is a little anxious, little nervous and out pops the baby. Kendall: I have no time to get out of this. Nina: Well what happens with me is I get back labor and front labor. So I don't know where -- you're almost like into a vice grip. The pain is so intense that even the breathing is hard, you know at that point. So you're scared of the pain and the pain is exasperbated by your fear because as you all know when you're frightened, everything contracts more. So you got to do the breathing, you got to inhale and then exhale. Kendall: We never do it! Nina: I never do it! We're big talkers but we never do it. We basically, I pant. I go, and then I get out of breath and I get dizzy and I need oxygen. So you really should be breathing. Kendall: So just have to try to stay calm. Okay? People are walking around, people are going, oh it looks good! Nina: Do you walk around when you're in labor? Kendall: They keep putting me on the table, I keep getting up. Nina: But you're attached though, aren't you attached? Kendall: No, here is what I like... Nina: Like all the beep, the monitor, the fetal monitor. Kendall: When you're in labor, you can grab a nurse - Nina: Oh, don't do that! don't listen to her. That's a law suit waiting to happen. Don't do that. Kendall: I did! I did it! Nina: I was so nice to my nurses! Kendall: I yelled at my nurses, I yelled at my doctor. Nina: Yell at your husband, he is the one who got you in there. It's their fault! Kendall: I wanted an epidural, I wanted them. I had no epidurals but I wanted one with one. My husband wouldn't let me. Nina: He won't let you get an epidural? Kendall: They haven't checked it for where are the baby is and because he knew I gave birth very-very fast. 20 minutes in the hospital. He said, so they're saying we'll give you -- the women whose pregnant gets whatever she wants. Nina: You never had an epidural? Kendall: Just the first time, not the others! Nina: With 3 kids? Kendall: No! Nina: Holy cow! Okay! Kendall: It's fab because you feel better, you feel like a million dollars. Nina: Who cares! You need epidural! Kendall: However, you had it for 30 hours I get 20 minutes. Okay, so hold on, my husband won't let them give me the epidural. Nina: I am going to want to talk with your husband honey! Kendall: I am like, I need it! And he is like you can't have it! So we're having a fight over the bed right! And they're all on my side. Nina: Get me the epidural baby! Here we go! Kendall: One of the nurses said, I am sorry, sir! But you're going to have to leave. I am going, don't let go, I can't! Nina: He is telling you can't have epidural! Get him out of here! Out! Kendall: Let me tell you what happened at the end. So, my gynecologist, my OBGYN comes in, he says to me, lie down and I am between pains; he goes, you're right, she can't have an epidural! There is the head! I pushed four times, baby! Nina: Oh I feel so sorry for you honey. Kendall: But my husband was walking around like Nina: I push two and a half hours, two and a half hours. Kendall: I don't have that much of energy. Nina: My doctor says, if you don't push this baby out, I am going to give you caesarian because the baby was the long-way Kendall: Breach! Nina: Posterior! No, not breach. Breach is when the feet come out first or when it's sideways instead of head first, that's breach, when the body is lying either this way or upside down with feet first. I had a posterior birth where the head is facing down instead of up. And therefore much hard... Kendall: What does that mean? Nina: You have a very hard time getting this baby out. So, I had two posterior births and my doctor came in and point blank he told me, you're going to have a C-section. I said, no I won't. He said, well then in that case it'll take you way longer to push that baby out. Stop pushing! So I pushed for two and a half hours, needless to say I had a lot of hemorrhoids afterwards, can't say that on the air, but anyway it was quite a dilemma. But I pushed that baby out. Kendall: So there you go, she is the queen of everything that can happen. I am the queen of zip out. Nina: Okay! So anyway, good! Kendall: Who knows? Good luck! Nina: Two different people, good luck! We'll be right back!