Is it normal to be born asleep?

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I'm not talking about stillbirth.

So, I was born asleep. As in, my mother pushed me out, and even though I went through all that, I was peacefully sleeping when born. Everyone thought I was dead until the doctor gave me a good smack and woke me up.

Extra info: I wasn't premature. Mother carried me to full term, and I was a normal weight, and healthy all around.

How common is being born asleep?

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Based on 9 votes (4 yes)
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  • Gland
    5 years ago

    Hey buddy, same for me. Nurse had to spank me

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  • Issacelerx
    5 years ago

    That means you were a peaceful baby when born.

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  • RoseIsabella
    5 years ago

    You know what? I dunno, but I think that Charli's suggestions are probably the most accurate explanation of the phenomenon.

    I guess my question to you would be how are you now. What kinda health have you had throughout the course of your life?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I do enjoy sleeping and sleep as often as I can, sometimes for more than 8hrs, even when I was young. It's how I discovered I was born asleep because I thought I was weird for sleeping so much, and asked my mother if I'm okay.

      That's the only thing I can think of, besides that I've always been healthy according to my doctors.

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  • charli.m
    5 years ago

    Was the cord around your neck? It happens quite frequently, apparently, and could account for a restriction in oxygen.

    Only explanation I can think of is a restriction in oxygen, or possibly a strong combination of birthing assistance drugs?

    I find it very hard to believe, tbh.

    What did the doctors say at the time? One would think there would be a comment or two made...

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      Perfectly healthy as said. No complications and the doctor who held me wasn't all too worried.

      I found a few threads around the web with people being born asleep. However, some of them do blame certain drugs given to their mother, with few babies having severe allergic reactions to it. She never told me the drugs she was on, just how scared she was when she didn't hear crying after pushing me out. I'll ask her.

      I read a lot of babies being born sleeping from c-sections, but weirdly I'm not one of those.

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  • Boojum
    5 years ago

    Never heard of that happening, and Google isn't very helpful. Natural birth - as opposed to Caesarean - is a traumatic experience for the infant, so I find it pretty surprising. I wonder if you were actually dozing, or if low blood-oxygen made you unconscious?

    Also, I'd never heard of "born sleeping" being used as a euphemism for still-birth before Googling this. The number of euphemisms people come up with to avoid saying "dead" never ceases to amaze me. My late wife, parents and one of my sisters haven't "passed", and they're not "resting" or "sleeping" or "at peace"; they're all fricking dead.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      5 years ago

      I was pretty frustrated too with Google. I guess it's to protect fragile mothers, especially mothers who are children themselves still, as sad as that sounds.

      I had to do some deep searching to find others who were born asleep like myself.

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    • charli.m
      5 years ago

      I see "born sleeping" on my kid based facebook groups quite often.

      The dog group uses "crossing the rainbow bridge" so often, now any time I see a rainbow emoticon, I assume it's another dead dog post.

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      • Boojum
        5 years ago

        Most of us in the developed world are so detached from death these days. I didn't see a dead body until I was more than fifty years old. I know it's a disconcerting fact that we'll all end up like that sooner or later, but some people seem to want to believe that death is optional if you live well and that it will never directly affect them and those they love. So they come up with distancing euphemisms.

        I think the Renaissance attitude to death was more sensible. Skulls appear in a lot of the art of that time as a reminder that we're all mortal, our time is limited, and our achievements and any glory we attain is fleeting.

        Carpe diem and all that.

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  • brutus
    5 years ago

    Cool.

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  • Enword
    5 years ago

    No, it's not normal.

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