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The Longest Shortest Time

Due Date Desert

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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A mom breastfeeds her preemie against all odds. Then she wakes up on her due date. Dry. … 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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0:00.0

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0:30.4

There's something about hearing this music that gives me flashbacks.

0:37.3

Whenever that Olympics theme comes on the TV, I go straight back to the last winter Olympics,

0:42.9

four years ago. I was pregnant, I was huge, my due date was today actually February 19th,

0:51.4

and it fell smack in the middle of the Olympics.

0:54.4

I was living in Philly back then, and just like this winter, there was blizzard after

0:58.7

blizzard after blizzard, just mountains of snow everywhere, and now I'm seeing all this white

1:05.4

all over the place, and just getting a whiff of the frost plus hearing this.

1:14.7

Just puts me right back on my bed, on my hands and knees, leaning my chest on one of those big

1:20.4

yoga balls watching the Olympics and waiting. Just waiting for the baby to come.

1:27.5

So let me explain that yoga ball thing. So my daughter Sasha was facing the wrong way inside

1:32.5

of me. Her touch was against my back instead of my belly. Sunny side up, they call it,

1:39.2

which I had heard could make labor even more hard and painful than usual.

1:44.1

So my midwives told me to hang out on my hands and knees as much as possible to sort of like make

1:49.3

my belly hang down and create room for the baby to turn. So I took the train home from an appointment

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