A Pregnancy: A Short Story

I had prepared myself for forty weeks, but this impatient lady right here is forty weeks, six days, eight hours pregnant. I am practically going on, my tenth month of pregnancy. I thought I knew everything there was to know about pregnancy until last night when everything started to become a reality. I have no clue what to expect. Today is the day! Never in my life have I felt so many emotions happen all at once. Pacing the hallways, I have already peed four times in the last hour and still have thirty minutes before we all leave for the hospital so I can get induced. I’m not sure if I am going to laugh or cry when I look at my family because there support just amazes me. The unknown leaves my palms clammy and the nook of my neck damps.

My day couldn’t get any better than this, I have been dealing with this pain for hours now because the nurse about two hours ago told me I only had four more centimeters to go. “NOPE” the doctor said “she must have worded it wrong your only four centimeters dilated. I have never been this aggravated at a professional that I have trusted with my welling being and health, along with the safety of my unborn child. My mom is trying to calm me down, but I don’t want to calm down it’s been twelve hours and nothing seems to be happening. With a few choice words under my breath, I am so mad at the world at this point. With nowhere else to go, pouting I rolled to my left side, putting my back to my mom and step-dad. POP! It was as if a rubber band snapped it happened so quickly it is as if the floodgates have opened. I am shocked beyond disbelief , I began yelling at my step-dad to get out of the room because I don’t want him to see that I have peed all over myself. I was embarrassed the more I moved the more pee there is. I am begging my and mom to hurry and grab clean sheets, we needed to get this mess cleaned up, I look over and my mom is laughing all while cleaning up my pee, she stops looking up and simply said “Maggie you didn’t pee, your water broke. Please calm down, take a breath this is Labor and delivery, they see this multiple times a day.” Just then my stomach hardened,as if every bone in my body was being crushed. My breath is

They are getting concerned because it is going on ten hours since my water broke. The same amount of contracts I am just not dilating. Watching the monitors like a hawk all night and routine checks I have been up the rest of the night. The nurses are having a shift change at seven this morning the nurse is a older lady that is very well educated about everything that went on throughout the night. She checked my dilation I am making progress I am seven centimeters but the nurse was not like the babies heart beat. She inserted an internal monitor and told me once I hit the twenty four hour mark with the amount of fluid loss and the baby 's heart rate they were going to need to prep me for a c-section if the baby didn’t come soon. As stubborn as it may be I will not have a c-section I didn’t read anything about those, nobody said a word to me about this before. I asked a lot of people about their pregnancy stories nothing like this happened. I was going on my twenty seventh hour of labor the nurse walked in with a mask and gloves on and said “ Now is the time it has to be done, we keeping losing the babies heart beat and this will not turn for the worst on my watch” She checked my dilation I was only nine centimeters. She said she was going to perform an old trick she hadn’t done