"The Mommies" Talk Childbirth

America's favorite "Mommies," Caryl Kristensen and Marilyn Kentz, have a lot to say about motherhood as stand-up comics, TV personalities and authors of The Mother Load: When Your Life's on Spin Cycle and You Just Can't Get the Lid Up! (Diane Pub. Co., 1998). Though their children are now teenagers and beyond, the Mommies remember their birth experiences as though they happened yesterday. Like many women, childbirth left them with powerful memories – many of which were not funny at the time, but are now a part of their collective humor.

"Childbirth is something worth remembering because once you forget, you get pregnant again," says Caryl, the mother of two teenage sons.

Caryl got pregnant at age 21 after only two months of marriage, and spent her first pregnancy on her knees.

"I vomited for seven months – it was horrible," she says. "It was so horrible that my husband gave me knee pads for Christmas that year."

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