The difficulties in childbirth, but gladly, everything was okay at the end, translated…
Last September, mom went to the clinic alone, and LINED dad, “What, do you suppose this is?”, on the screen, was an ultrasound picture, with a small thing that looks like a tadpole and a seahorse at the same time. “It couldn’t be……poop, could it?”, your dad said intentionally, but I know, he knows, that it’s you.
I’d waited for you for so long, and finally, you came, into mommy’s tummy. I’ll tell you a secret, there was a month, when you didn’t come, I’d cried in front of the doctor, and, it’d, shocked the nurses, and they’d quickly, handed me a tissue.
During my pregnancy, mommy started experiencing some changes in my body, for instance, there was, a mother-and-child wrinkle, like how Moses had, separated the Red Sea with his staff, and, I’d felt this, constant, itching on my tummy too. Although I’d wanted to scratch the itch, real hard, but I’m afraid, that if I used too much force, it may, hurt you. And, there was also, water retention in mommy’s legs, to the point that I can’t even see my veins, and even sleeping became hard for me, other than feeling the aches on my lower back, I’d also felt the cramps, from you, kicking me on the inside.
I recalled, that during my pregnancy, mommy had, gone through an assortment of hardships, and I’d not cried. Only once when I was in my first month of pregnancy, I’d found some dark material when I went to the bathrooms, and I rushed to the hospital, but couldn’t get a number to see the doctors. Mommy was so worried that I may lose you, and I’d started, crying by the side of the road.
As you’d become full-term, mommy was given doses of oxytocin in my drip, and, you’d, finally, come out. I was completely dilated, I could finally start pushing. The nurse told me, “normally, the birthing processes takes anywhere from five minutes to two hours, and it’s different with everybody.” We’d felt, that it won’t be too long, but, she’s the one that’s the longest lasting, to the full two hours.
Holy! Mommy’s out of energy. The doctors told us, that it won’t do, it’s a difficult childbirth. They’d pushed mommy into the operating room, about an hour later, the nurse brought you out. The first thing that flashed across my mind when I saw you was……I’m sorry, daddy wasn’t fully concentrating, because I couldn’t see mommy, forgive daddy, for not being happy at your arrival. Thankfully, your maternal grandmother reminded me to take a photo, that, was how we had that photograph, of you, as a new born.
“Ms. Lin’s family!”, the nurse hollered out. I’d immediately rushed to see if mommy’s all right, and, the first thing mommy said to daddy was, “Did you see her? She’d been stuck too long, I’d caused her head to get long.”, then, she’d, started crying. Mommy is so foolish, so foolish so, that everybody’s worried about her, and in the end, she’d worried about you. Child, you must, love and honor that crybaby mommy who’d never thought about herself, but only you.
And so, this, is a difficult birth, and, the father of the child is writing this, so the daughter will know, how much hard work it was, for her mom to bring her out into the world, and, this family has a brand new start on life, with this new addition to the family now.
and no, still NOT my photograph here…
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