For two months, a Texas mother lived in an RV with her former partner and two children so she could give birth inside a Virginia hospital. Here's why.
“To ensure the safety, health and mental health … of myself and my baby, it was the kind of sacrifice I had to make," the mother saidWhen Mimi Evans found out she was pregnant for a third time 10 years ago, one of her first thoughts was:"Something has got to change."
"I was very naive and I just kind of went in to the hospital because I thought that's what everyone did," she adds."Thank goodness I did not have to do a C-section, but I do feel like I was given things that I did not necessarily want — like a shot of Pitocin," she says."I didn't get a lot of choice in how I wanted my experience to be, and then immediately after I gave birth I was just cleaned up and sent off to a room to manage the whole postpartum period alone.
To afford the RV, travel and two-month stay, Evans said her family had to"cut certain luxuries," like cable television. "I thought: 'If my baby happens to come while we're in the RV, and I don't make it to the hospital, I'm OK with that," she adds."To ensure the safety, health and mental health, first and foremost of myself and my baby, it was the kind of sacrifice I had to make.""It was just such a much more pleasant experience," she says."And because of that, my baby came when he felt like wanted to — at four o'clock in the morning. I was never rushed.
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