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Okay, here's the next question. Please tell us the stories of our births. Okay. Well, let's see. Kelly was born October 26, 1984.

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I was not feeling good for at least a month, maybe longer. I felt like I was having a heart attack.

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I just, we were at the cabin. I had to sleep in the chair. You had terrible reflexes.

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Oh, God, I was just... And so two weeks before Kelly was born, I went for a checkup. And this is still, remember, we were in Dream Lane.

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And the doctor, the hospital was Penrose Community that's right there on Academy. Now it's Peak Vista. And I went to the doctor who was...

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It was like three blocks from the house. Dr. Stringfellow, who was right across the street. And I got in there and he goes, "You're going into the hospital." And I go, "What?" Well, you'd been diagnosed with sort of gestational diabetes and toxemia a couple weeks.

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Another diabetes, just toxemia. Just toxemia, okay.

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And he said, "You're going." I said, "Okay, I'll go walk." No, you're not even walking across the street. You're going right into the hospital.

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So this was a Friday called Jeff. He comes and gets me. We go into the hospital. And then Dr. Stringfellow says, "Well, I'm going elk hunting for the weekend." It was deer hunting.

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Or deer hunting. I'm going hunting for the weekend. And you hadn't eaten.

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I hadn't eaten in over 24 hours because I just didn't feel good at all. And he goes, "So when I get back on Monday, we'll have this baby." We'll reduce the baby.

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And I'm going, "So they bring me mashed potatoes, turkey, something like that." And I start to put a thing of mashed potatoes.

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He leaves. Yeah, he leaves.

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It's about an hour later. It's five, five o'clock, six o'clock, something like that.

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Start to put a bite of mashed potatoes in my mouth and in comes his partner, Phil Schmidt. And Phil goes, "Have you eaten anything?" And I go, "Nope." He goes, "Good. We're going to induce you." I've got too many patients to deal with tonight.

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I've got two other ladies I'm inducing at the same time. This is going to be a long weekend.

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I want to get you guys out of the way. I don't want any problems.

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Right. You're not going to get any... I distinctly remember him saying, "You're not going to get any better waiting until Monday." The best thing is to get this baby out of the way.

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I thought that was a great answer. That was a great answer.

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And he said, "You're going to be able to pick which day she's born." Now, this was the 26th.

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Well, we didn't know it was a she. No, we didn't know.

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But he said, "You'll be able to..." We didn't know the gender.

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No. He said, "But you'll be able to pick which day," which meant the baby was going to be born very close to midnight.

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So, they induce... This is like four o'clock in the afternoon.

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No, it was five o'clock to six. That's what we just already said, too.

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That's what you said. Yeah, because it was late.

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And, you know, waited, waited. They had heart monitors on me.

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Baby's not doing great, you know, but... So, they, you know, keep up and up and...

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Up in the... 11, 57.

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To make you come to class. Kelly and Fowler was born.

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And she was... Skinny.

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She was failure to thrive. She was low sugar.

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And we didn't know all of this. Because I was not in good shape.

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I was kind of bleeding a lot. Things you don't want to know, but I just said it.

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I was not in good shape. And about...

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You know what happened then. I just know that it wasn't until about six o'clock in the morning.

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In comes John Gennrich. And we hadn't called him to say, "I was going to have a baby." You interviewed doctors back then ahead of time.

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And we, I think, had told him that we wanted him to be our doctor. And he just felt like he's had to have had a baby that weekend.

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And he hadn't heard anything. So he shows up.

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And he went right to the nursery. That's what they were called, the nursery, because all the babies were there.

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They didn't have a NICU, per se. And there was little Kelly, four pounds, 15 ounces.

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And the nurses had been trying to get an IV. 15 ounces.

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So they'd been trying to get her an IV. Trying to get an IV.

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We had this Dr. Anderson who was a turd. He was no good.

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And he didn't leave very good orders. And the nurses were kind of mucking about.

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But the girls on low, Dr. Gennrich, because he was their doctor until they were like 18. Best guy ever. Best start of a relationship.

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He's still a long-term friend. Taking care of his dogs for years.

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See him frequently. So anyway, then Gennrich comes in and starts the ball rolling.

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He got the IV in. You have to put it in her scalp.

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And there are some nurses that were not. He's a very nice man, but he doesn't put up with incompetence.

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And so there was a couple nurses that were weepy. Because apparently you chewed them.

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But he came in our room, said this was all that had happened. That she was going to be staying in the NICU.

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But it wasn't the NICU. She was going to be staying there. You know, stay there for four or five days.

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So they did release me probably the next day. And it was really lovely that we lived close because we could just come over and spend a lot of time with her.

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I remember sharing the enix brought over the sheepskin. And they had called it a wooby.

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And we were able. After a movie with Michael Keaton.

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And I forget the name of the movie. Yeah, where he had to.

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And so that was a thing for babies. In the NICU, in the in the back and the kind of the although I don't know what you would call my yet.

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The heat. And so she had her wooby. They brought a little wood stock and Kelly was just so tiny, so tiny.

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I mean, her head was no bigger than the palm of our hand. Just very, very tiny.

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But she started to take off. Yeah.

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Once she got to go. Go nurse her.

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Yeah. She came home on Halloween.

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So that's the story of Kelly. That's the story of Kelly.

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And we started calling. They were having these Kebler ads and they call them the Pocano Kebleros.

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So they dressed them up as the Kebler elves were dressed up as little Mexican cowboys. So that was what we nicknamed her.

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So Aaron Aaron. So sort of a similar story.

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Yeah. This time.

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So I was I said, same thing. But I, how did that happen though?

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Oh, I went into the doctor's office. Close to her due date.

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And he goes, she's breach. And you were the same doctor.

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Dr. Dr.

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The string fellow. Same across the street still.

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And he goes again, you can't. You got to be driven across the street.

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And we're going to do what we call a version where they're going to turn the baby. Which is one of the least pleasant things to ever have done.

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And then they stop now. They do it again.

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So, you know, they, and they have to prep in case something was wrong. You were getting sick again.

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Yeah, I was getting sick again. So, you know, they do that.

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Aaron pops right down again in the bad order. First they gave you some drugs to.

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Oh yeah. They give you pitocin.

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No. First they give you turbulent.

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And then they give you some of the drugs. Well, Erin, of course, came out.

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Was a little blue. Had her cord wrapped around her neck.

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So quick like a rabbit, you know, he's got her untangled. She's pinking up.

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The nurse comes. The entire offer cord.

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Away they go. And all good.

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But she's always been a little different child. Sorry, Erin, but that's a fact.

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So, Lauren. And you know, Lauren and Erin are 16 months apart.

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So it was, close, really close.

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So things were going fine with Lauren. There was no problems.

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But by now I'd had both of my births induced.

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And I said to Dr. Stringfellow, I don't want to wait for this to happen. Plus, your due date is right around Thanksgiving day.

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And then it would bump onto my birthday. And I wanted this baby.

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And this time we did find the gender. And I wanted to have a baby.

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And we did find the gender. And I said, we want this little girl to have her own distinct birthday.

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Not Thanksgiving day. And not on my birthday.

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So he looks at his calendar and says, let's do this day.

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And I said, sounds great. And did he deliver?

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No, Schmidt again. I was going to say, what happened to Stringfellow?

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All of a sudden I'm trying to remember why. And he got Phil Schmidt again.

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Who had done Kelly. Stringfellow was supposed to deliver all of you.

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And he only delivered one of you. Under duress from him.

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But he only delivered Aaron. And Lauren was delivered by Phil Schmidt too.

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So the funny story about that is we had scheduled this delivery going to Penrose Community and at the same time Scott and Barbara Carpenter were living in Carter Springs.

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And Barbara was pregnant. And roughly the same timing as we were.

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So we're in the delivery room and Lauren's being born. And just as soon as she's born, the intercom says something like Dr. Schmidt room, blah, blah, blah.

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You're needed right away. And we said, gosh, wouldn't that be interesting if that were Barbara Carpenter?

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Sure enough, it was in Zach Carpenter.

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Their little boy was born 15 minutes after Lauren at Penrose Community.

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So you guys, you remember Scott Carpenter and my dad were best pals from Boulder.

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So he was significantly older than me.

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But we knew Scott and Barbara and we'd seen them and I took care of the dog for a while.

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But it was funny because they take the babies from you. But the dad in those days kind of went with the baby.

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Partly because we weren't going to let you out of our sight.

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So we go into the nursery area and I looked and there we called him Uncle Scott because when I was like seven, so when he flew Mercury, he was the third second orbiter of the earth. And so I said, hey Scott, blah, blah, blah.

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So Lauren and Scott were kind of tied together at the hip.

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Lauren and Zach. So Lauren, yeah Lauren and Zach were born like right next to each other and they never really knew each other. No.

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Actually, I don't think we've ever met Zach. No, but Kelly did.

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So when Scott died, Kelly went to the funeral, I think with my mom. Yeah.

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And since he was a Mercury astronaut, he had a big, he was a Navy pilot. So they had a big hornet fly over the church and my brother was there and they got to see Zach.

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So kind of close the carpenter loop. So those are the stories. Hope you enjoy those.

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Kind of long, but very interesting. Yeah. Not nothing bore. They were dynamic.

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They were all dynamic. And the nurses the third time it was like, we know how this goes. Please turn up the pitocin.

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Oh, they don't. It's time to get this rocking and rolling.

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They're slow. Oh, yeah. They're slow, but that's okay. That's okay.

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It all worked out. Y'all got your fingers and toes normal.

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Yeah, you were pretty easy deliveries. Yeah. Once you got ready to go. Yeah.

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So that's kind of it. Okay. So we met the wonderful Dr.

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Gennrich. Yeah. Dr. Schmidt. I actually hunted with string fellow in North Dakota one time. Yeah. So they were supposed to do all three of my kids, but you only did one with your kidneys. Don't he says, Oh, yeah.

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Yeah. I remember that. I'm trying to remember why he didn't do Lauren. I think he was out of town again. And Schmidt was there and we said, Hey, we know you too. So that's yeah, it worked fine.

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They were in I think we have a little toy wood truck that Schmidt I think we're two of them. So because he gave to all his new babies new babies. Yeah.

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Okay. I hope you enjoyed those. Yep.

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We know we've been blessed with the three of you.

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Yeah. And we remember a lot.

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