So here's my birth story (what counts the most anyways). Everytime I would have a contraction Vivien's heart rate would drop. As I was pushing and her head came out they discovered her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck and they thought that was the reason her heart rate had been dropping. I had decided, for whatever reason, to open my eyes and look at her head and she was so purple that she looked black (all i could think to myself was 'I didn't have sex with a black man!'). They found out that the umbilical cord around her neck was not the reason, but that it was what they call a 'true knot' which is uncommon itself but even more uncommon for the baby to be born alive. They have a very small percent chance of living and most of them that live are because they are born via c-section. They told me that if I hadn't gotten her out with the last push that I did, she would of been a still born. They also told me she is the first one to be born alive in muscatine vaginally. My little miracle baby. (: