I spent my entire pregnancy in county by choice. The district attorney had gone as low as they were going to go with an offer of 4 years and I had come to terms with that but I had spoken to other women and heard their experience with going to the big girl prison pregnant. They would go to a medical unit and have the baby and if they were lucky they would get to spend an hour or two with the baby. If no one showed up within a specified time frame of a couple of days to pick up the baby then it would go to the State. I knew that if I put off my sentencing until after the baby was born that I would get to spend two to three days in the same room with my baby, and I wanted that opportunity.