“It took my mind off the pain as I danced and giggled with my family. Laughing is the best for contractions.”
There are several ways to deal with the pain of labor — massaging, stretching, walking. But Amber Renee Murphy, pregnant with her sixth child, preferred to dance her way through a complicated labor.
Video of her labor boogie, captured by her sister, gained international attention last week. It has now been viewed over 1.1 million times.
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"I love that the video has made so many people happy," she told BuzzFeed News in a Facebook message. "I was very happy that day, being 41 weeks and feeling like I had been pregnant for two years!"
But at the time, Murphy tells BuzzFeed News that she was just trying to manage the pain of a complicated labor while at the Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand.
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