Submitted by a 19-year-old woman.

Here is my version of what happened, and how I felt about it. I didn’t leave anything out, and I didn’t edit anything down. This is my story, in my words.

On Tuesday the 10th, about a week before the birth of my son, I lost my mucous plug. Throughout the next few days I kept having Braxton Hicks contractions. Sometimes they would become regular and I would start to get my hopes up, but nothing. On Feb. 14, my contractions were … More