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Those at the dinner turned their

attention to her as she told her story.

“After I had had my fifth child, I

knew pretty well how my pregnancies

would go. They had all been the same. I

would be in miserable labor for two

days, and then I would feel a change in

the intensity. When that happened, I

knew it wasn’t going to be long, and I

needed to get to the hospital. So, when

my sixth child was born, and I had been

in labor for two days, I was careful to

pay attention to that change. When it

came, I had your father rush me to the

hospital.

“In those days, men were not

allowed into the mother’s hospital room