http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/six-word+memoirs/default.aspxTags: six-word memoirsenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/04/04/your-birth-story-in-6-words.aspxFri, 04 Apr 2008 17:56:00 GMT42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:83128Madeline Holler67http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=83128http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/04/04/your-birth-story-in-6-words.aspx#comments<p><a href="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/writing.jpg"><img src="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/writing.jpg" alt="" align="right" border="0" height="134" hspace="4" width="199" /></a>You know that book <a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/02/12/six-word-memoirs-totally-like-crack.aspx"><i>Not What I Was Planning</i></a>, the collection of memoirs that are six words long? Well, a blogger/doula is <a href="http://doulicia.blogspot.com/2008/02/your-birth-story-in-abbreviated-form.html">riffing on that idea</a> and asking people to writer their birth stories in just six words. (I believe &quot;ouch&quot; counts as a word.)<br /></p><p>Can you do it?</p><p>Here are a few so far:</p><p><i>Front seat, 60mph, early morning, WOW!</i></p><p><i>Nurse insists it&#39;s worth it. Correct.</i></p><p><i>On all fours, laughing him out.</i></p><p><i>Unplanned cesarean. Stillbirth avoided. Overwhelmed...overjoyed.</i></p><p><i>thank god i&#39;m not pregnant anymore.</i></p><p><i>Don&#39;t push, can&#39;t not, he&#39;s here!</i> <br /></p><p>Come on, Babble readers, give us your birth and adoption stories in six words.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=83128" width="1" height="1">bloggersdoulasbirth storiesnot what I was planningsix-word memoirs