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The Longest Shortest Time

Don’t Make Me Be Your Miracle

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

After having her first child, a woman experiences heart failure and is told she has less than a 50 percent chance of surviving another pregnancy. Through a surrogate, she finally gets her "miracle" baby and is surprised to discover he's just a regular kid. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0

I like to think of myself as a strong person, you know, like physically strong.

0:33.9

I can beat most women I know in arm wrestling and way back when I was in middle school, when

0:40.2

I wasn't good at pretty much anything having to do with Jim.

0:44.1

I knew that when we did the president's physical fitness challenge tests that I could bench press

0:51.0

more than my own weight, and that when we did the hang, like because the girls didn't

0:56.4

have to do pull-ups, we just had to hang from the pull-up bar.

1:00.1

When we did the hang, I knew that I would be the last girl hanging, like all the popular

1:06.5

girls would drop off long before me.

1:09.9

And so whenever I felt terrified of childbirth, which was like pretty much the entire time

1:16.8

I was pregnant, I would just remind myself of how strong I was.

1:23.8

And I'm one of those people who really kind of didn't want to have an epidural if I could

1:30.0

at all avoid it.

1:31.7

Not really to prove my strength, but because I had taken this natural childbirth class.

1:36.3

And in that class I learned that basically like an epidural or any kind of drugs that

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