Jaycee Dugard: Finally Free From Captivity, Writes About Experience

Giving Birth In Captivity

Finding Jaycee Dugard had gone into labor (at age 14), the Garridos only gave the young girl some codeine.

In addition, Phillip told her he was prepared after watching videos about giving birth and delivering babies. In total, Dugard says she was in labor with her first daughter for around 12 hours.

Finding Humor

Often times, Jaycee has credited her two daughters with giving her the will to survive.

She also spoke with Diane Sawyer about finding humor to help them. She said of her daughters, “They saw his craziness and ups and downs and knew how unpredictable he was…To know it was OK to laugh about, you know, Phillip and Nancy and their…craziness … it helps.”