2000
Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona: An 18-year-old's baby's heart rate has started dropping; A woman goes into labor while visiting her two-year-old daughter in the PICU; A couple expecting their fourth child are informed that it will have spina bifida; A 16-year-old is having her first child; A woman is preventing her 16-year-old daughter in labor from having pain medication to discourage her from future pregnancies; A 19-year-old has been in labor for 14 hours.
2000
Good Samaritan Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona: A woman gives birth to quadruplets as the result of fertility drug treatments; A woman delivers two months prematurely; A 14-year-old goes into labor; A woman 33 weeks pregnant with triplets goes into labor.
Mon, Feb 19, 2001
UCSF Medical Center: A 29-year-old first time mother with placenta previa will need a C-section; A 23-year-old recovering addict is in labor; First time parents have requested to use one of their own swords to cut the umbilical cord; A cocaine addict is about to deliver; A 36-year-old with pre-eclampsia woman is about to give birth to her 15th child.
Sat, Apr 21, 2001
A woman has an emergency C-section to save her premature baby; A 23-year-old woman is expecting her first baby; A woman is ready to deliver at 34 weeks; The baby of a woman running a fever has a fetal heart rate of 200; A mother is set to deliver her fourth child with her three older children in attendance; A couple is expecting their seventh child.
Wed, Jun 27, 2001
Yale/New Haven: A woman delivers a 420-gram baby at 25 weeks; A 41-year-old woman is expecting her sixth child; A woman 31 weeks pregnant with triplets has pre-eclampsia; A woman sixth child is in a breech position; A midwife's daughter is pregnant with her first child.
Mon, Jul 23, 2001
Hutzel Women's Hospital, Detroit: A patient in labor has a cord prolapse; A patient has been in labor for three days; Doctors tend to a patient having excessive bleeding after a C-section; A 17-year-old is overdue at 41 weeks; A woman goes in for a checkup after a cow bumps into her; Doctors deal with an emergency when a baby is found to be in distress;
Fri, Jul 27, 2001
Yale/New Haven, Connecticut: A 21-year-old's baby's heart is decelerating; A 24-year-old woman who isn't due for seven weeks is delivering because of preeclampsia; A 21-year-old pregnant with her first baby is past her due date; A woman pregnant with her sixth baby is having contractions two months early; A woman is is fully dilated and having contractions two weeks short of her due date.
Wed, Aug 1, 2001
Fresno: A deaf mute is about to deliver her first baby; A baby's shoulder gets stuck in the birth canal during delivery; Meconium has been detected in a woman who has been in labor for 15 hours; A 15-year-old is in labor; A woman goes into labor at 34 weeks.
Fri, Aug 3, 2001
Fresno Community Medical Center: A 25-year-old expectant mother with preeclampsia might be suffering from a placental abruption at 28 weeks; A 44-year-old woman is pregnant with her fifth child; A 19-year-old is in labor with a breech baby; A woman at 38 weeks is carrying twins, one of which died in utero;
Mon, Aug 13, 2001
Nashville, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: A baby is diagnosed having its intestines outside its body; A woman's twins are head to feet; A woman is 10 days overdue with a large (over 10 pounds) baby has been in labor for many hours; A woman is induced after having had contractions for three days; a 21-year-old woman has gone into labor nine weeks before her due date.
Sun, Aug 19, 2001
Hutzel Hospital, Detroit, Michigan: 18-year-old Tiffany has gone into labor at 25 weeks, and her baby is trapped in the birth canal;16-year-old Alicia has pre-eclampsia; Raylene is about to give birth to her first child.
Tue, Sep 11, 2001
Yale-New Haven: A woman carrying twins at 31 weeks is in danger of going into labor; A 20-year-old woman's baby might have Down Syndrome; an 18-year-old wants to have a natural childbirth;
Sun, Oct 7, 2001
Las Vegas University Medical center: 17-year-old Cynthia is six weeks premature and is having painful contractions; A woman serving a six-month jail sentence; A 38-year-old woman is pregnant with her first.
Wed, Oct 10, 2001
Detroit: A 28-year-old woman with a history of crack cocaine has gone into premature labor; The baby of a 38-year-old homeless woman has a cloverleaf skull defect; A 21-year-old woman prepares to give up her baby for adoption; A 19-year-old woman pregnant with twins is diagnosed with having a shortened cervix;
2001
Las Vegas University Medical Center: A woman collapses at 36 weeks due to high blood pressure; A 17-year-old prepares to give birth to her second child; A woman seven months pregnant is HIV+; Doctors are having trouble pushing a baby boy's shoulders through the pelvis; A woman is induced at 38 weeks due to gestational diabetes; A woman's water breaks during her exam.
2001
Legacy Emmanuel, Portland, Oregon: A 14-yeard-old is about to deliver her first child; A woman's baby is diagnosed with having intestines outside its body; A couple's child has been diagnosed with spina bifida; A 44-year-old woman is about to give birth to her first daughter in 21 years; An ultrasound indicates that a woman's baby has broken bones in utero; An 18-year-old is pregnant with her second child.
Sun, Jan 6, 2002
The baby of a 38-weeks pregnant woman newly arrived from Mexico with no previous prenatal care is diagnosed with having a tumor; A woman who has been in labor for hours still wants a natural childbirth; A woman at 29 weeks finds that one of her twins is not viable; A woman in her 36th week has a rare blood disorder that caused her last baby to die in utero.
Sun, Jan 20, 2002
Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio: A woman experiencing a rough deliver requires an episiotomy; Doctors decide to induce a woman because they are concerned about the baby's size; The baby of a woman in extended labor has meconium; A woman is pregnant despite having had her tubes tied.
Sun, Feb 3, 2002
Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio: Anya has gone into labor six weeks early; Stephanie, 8½ months pregnant, is having contractions; Doctors decide to induce a woman at 38 weeks due to the baby's large size; Holly, who has had no previous prenatal care plans to give her baby up for adoption.
Sun, Sep 15, 2002
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, Florida: A woman delivers a breech baby at 25 weeks; A woman at 38 weeks is unconscious and suffering from pre-eclampsia; A 42-year-old woman is in for a checkup; A woman with sickle cell anemia is 34 weeks pregnant; A 17-year-old girl is in labor nine weeks early; Doctors prank one of their colleagues; A Hatian immigrant is having a breech delivery.
Sun, Oct 13, 2002
Orlando, Florida, Arnold Palmer Maternity Hospital: A baby is diagnosed with hydrocephalus; A 19-year-old patient is unsure of her baby's paternity; A baby starts having an irregular heartbeat; A first time expectant mother wants to deliver without an epidural.
Sun, Oct 20, 2002
Providence St. Vincent, Portland, Oregon: A woman with four previous C-sections goes into labor early; One patient has pre-eclampsia; A woman with heard and kidney disease arrives for her 32nd week visit; A woman with a history of kidney stones and diabetes is ready to deliver.
Sun, Jan 12, 2003
Providence St. Vincent, Portland, Oregon: The labor of a woman with a history of miscarriages has stalled after 24 hours; A woman is scheduled for a C-section seven weeks before her due date because of high blood pressure; One woman's water has broken eight weeks early placing her twins at risk; A 33-year-old woman is in labor with her second child; A woman is in labor with her second child.
Sun, Jan 26, 2003
Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, Florida: A 24-year-old woman's placenta is abrupting; A 28-year-old former anorexic is about to give birth to her first; A 22-year-old cocaine addict arrives semi-conscious and in active labor; A young woman has been in labor for seven hours; A woman does not want an epidural on the advice of her chiropractor.
Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Oklahoma University Medical Center, Oklahoma City: Two women each carrying twins must be delivered due to her preeclampsia; A 17-year-old is in active labor.
Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona: A patient is bleeding to placenta previa at 26 weeks; Fluid is accumulating in the chest of a baby soon to be born; The amniotic sac of a baby already diagnosed with campomelic dysplasia has ruptured two weeks before her scheduled C-section; A woman has been in labor for almost two days with little progress; A woman pregnant for the fifth time with three previous miscarriages, and one baby having died shortly after birth.
Sun, Sep 14, 2003
Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona: A young woman needs an emergency C-section to stop her hemorrhaging; A woman's baby seems to have stopped growing at 21 weeks; A woman 34 weeks pregnant with triplets has preeclampisa; At 32 weeks, a boy is diagnosed with fetal hydrops;
Sun, Sep 21, 2003
A woman's baby is diagnosed this its intestines are outside its body; Doctors have a hard time finding good veins on a young woman who had contracted hepatitis-C from years of drug use; A 21-year-old woman's water has broken five weeks before her due date and her baby has a diaphragmatic hernia; The religious beliefs of a woman's pregnancy complicated by HELLP and fibroid tumors near her uterus will not allow her to accept blood transfusions.
Sun, Oct 5, 2003
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital, San Diego: A baby is at risk due to lack of amniotic fluid; A 32-year-old woman is in active labor at 32 weeks; Nurse Danielle is the first of three co-workers to deliver; A woman due to deliver in two weeks has come to see if doctors can try to turn her breech baby in the proper position; A woman who had previously delivered by a C-section wants to try to deliver naturally.
Sun, Oct 12, 2003
Shands Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida: a 14-year-old girl is in labor at 25 weeks; a 45-year-old woman is being induced; a 17-year-old is in labor at 37 weeks, and her baby has been diagnosed with exposed intestines; a nurse's friend is ready to deliver; a woman is hoping to have her baby without an epidural, but must have a C-section due to a cord wrap; A 19-year-old is expecting her first child.
Sun, Oct 19, 2003
Shands Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida: A young couple is expecting twins; A young woman is about to give birth to her second set of twins; A young woman must have a C-section delivery after having been in labor for 23 hours.
Sun, Nov 9, 2003
Brooklyn: A young woman wants a natural childbirth, but the baby's cord is wrapped around her neck; A 19-year-old delivers her first baby after a long labor; A patient's family is insistent that she not receive pan medication; Doctors tend to a high risk pregnancy with a woman who has previously miscarried; A 38-year-old woman is in labor with her seventh child;
Sun, Nov 16, 2003
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, San Diego: A couple is expecting their fifth baby, complicated by two previous miscarriages and diabetes; A 19-year-old woman in the early stages of labor wants to have a natural childbirth; A woman is starting to have contractions at 32 weeks; A young woman has been in labor for 16 hours; A woman delivers while her husband is stationed in Kuwait.
Sun, Nov 30, 2003
Jacksonville, Florida: A young woman's pregnancy with twins is complicated by HELLP and pre-eclampsia; A woman's baby is diagnosed with having fluid in its belly; A baby is suspected of having cystic fibrosis; A woman is ready to deliver after having been told at 11 weeks that her baby had died in the womb.
Sun, Dec 14, 2003
Sharp Mary Birth Hospital, San Diego, California: An 18-year-old has gone into premature labor eight weeks early with twins that have been diagnosed with life-threatening defects; A marathon runner expecting triplets finds that one of her babies is smaller than the other two, and is no longer growing; A woman 34 weeks pregnant with twins has come into the hospital with contractions; A couple is about to have their first baby.