Would you believe us if we told you there were women who had easy deliveries? Yep, it’s true. Although we're sure that’s almost like saying mermaids or unicorns are real. One such lucky mom is 21-year-old TikToker Elimarie (@_elimariee) who had such an easy-breezy labor that she didn’t even realize she’d given birth.
The mom first stunned the internet with a video from March 29.
In the video’s text overlay, Elimarie explained that it started when her nurse came into her hospital room to adjust the fetal monitor “after losing my baby’s heartbeat.”
“Me: maybe he’s out already,” she wrote. You know what happens next: “Nurse lifts my cover and there he is.”
BOOM. Baby.
People in the comments section were stunned.
"The baby: 'fine, I’ll do it myself,'" joked one commenter.
"That’s on epidural life," another person commented.
"Baby was tired of waiting," someone else teased.
Other people shared the same thing had happened to them.
"Just happened to me last week, I was napping they came and tried adjusting the monitor and there he was, everyone was shook," one person shared.
"This happened to my mom! She was throwing up then my grandpa said he seen something moving under the blankets and it was my sister," another person commented.
"LOL my nurse came in saying 'is there a baby in the bed' I was like WHET!????" another commenter recalled.
Of course, people wanted details about what happened, which is why the mom decided to explain all in a follow-up video.
As Elimarie shared, she went into the hospital about 4 in the morning and chose to be induced because it went “so smoothly” with her first child.
“Once I got there they automatically started me on pitocin and everything was going so smoothly,” she said. She got her epidural when she was about 4 cm dilated, so thinking she had time, she started joking around with her nurse.
They asked the nurse how much longer she thought it would take for Elimarie to give birth.
Elimarie and her fiancé guessed it would take another two or three hours, although her nurse thought “He’ll be born in the next 30 to 45 minutes,” the mom recalled.
“And we were just like, ‘What? That’s crazy.’”
In the video’s text overlay, Elimarie wrote that things started to progress so quickly that she went from 4 cm to 10 cm in less than an hour — which coincidentally was exactly what happened during her first pregnancy.
By that point, it had only been about 30 minutes since she’d gotten the epidural.
The mom, who was using a peanut ball, said she was lying on one side of her body but it felt numb.
“I then flipped to the other side after 15 minutes,” she said, which is when she “felt something in between my legs.”
She believed it was the catheter wire and thought nothing of it. Then her nurse lost her son’s heartbeat on the monitor and came over to adjust the machine.
“I made a little joke like, ‘Oh he’s probably already out,’’ the mom recalled.
When her nurse lifted up her cover, it was clear that Elimarie's comment wasn’t a joke after all.
“Sure enough he was right there,” the mom said.
It was such a surprise that Elimarie’s fiancé had his headphones in and was watching a movie on his iPad and completely missed the whole thing.
“He didn’t even know what was going on. And I was like, ‘He’s here! He’s here!’” she recalled.
All in all, Elimarie said despite how fast it happened, she regrets nothing about how she gave birth.
“It was probably the easiest, best, labor story ever,” the mom remembered. “Everyone was freaking out, laughing. It was a really, really great experience. It was awesome. I loved it.”
