As the child grew up, you kept that special close relationship which sharing in the birth had given you. One of the women had trouble expelling the placenta after the birth, so she hiked up the steep canyon wall with it hanging out of her like a tail. But she arrived safely at the hospital. At another Ridge birth, the couple and their friends dropped acid. Both mother and child paid for it afterwards by getting sick.
Birth is plenty high without such foolishness.
The mother was having her second child, and her first was still too young to understand what was happening. She thought her mother was wounded, and spent the whole last part of the labor clutching her mother's head and screaming at the top of her lungs. The confusion was compounded by the poor illumination provided by a hissing Coleman lantern. When the mother started to deliver, the baby came very quickly. The newborn baby was rolling around in the bloody sheets, seemingly unable to breathe.