The Day My Life Changed
The day my life changed October 31st, 2001 5:00 am the alarm goes off beep, beep, beep, "Megan, will you turn that damn thing off." "Uuhh, what." "Turn it off." "Ok, ok." "It's way to early to be alive, I'm probably going back to sleep when we get there." "Yeah right, you won't be able to sleep." As we began to prepare for the biggest day of our life the conversation was nothing of great importance. We had to be at the hospital by 7:00 am, that was a mere 2 hours away. By 6:00 am I had all our bags ready to go: snacks, things to do, clothes, his clothes, car seat to bring him home in and of course the video camera.As nerve racking as it all was the doctors assured us everything was fine, our soon to be son just needed a little extra help to come into this world. I always said why would he want to come out of a nice warm place where he's always fed and always comforted. It was 7:00 am as we entered the hospital carrying our luggage. Most would've thought we were checking into a resort for the week; Friendly faces greeted us. We were escorted to our room where we found it to be quite roomy. It had a full bathroom, a TV, a bed for birthing and a comfy couch where I assumed I'd be makin
The nurse also hooked up a machine that read the contractions, and we could listen to our baby's heartbeat. It was like we were in our own little world though, oblivious to everything going on around us. The first day the food was very good. So we went about our day; set up our room the way we wanted it. Imagine in this room it was: Megan, her mom and dad, my mom and dad, her sister, my two sisters and her 4 month old son, her grandma and grandpa, her aunt, all the doctors, and I, It was like a party in there. At some point they administered a little pain medication in her IV to take the edge off. As she began to push it was like I was there trying to help her through the whole thing, but at the same time it seemed like to her none of us where there, it was just her and this child inside her. Over the next few hours we were fixed on the monitor, every contraction was like a celebration that the time was getting closer. In that moment of him being flung up on her chest and we were able to touch, smell and see him, was an overabundance of pride, happiness, and self worth. It was the hardest thing I've ever done because she was in all this pain, and all I could do was sit there and watch. I saw what was a little human, being expelled out of somewhere I never would have imagined it coming out of. The doctor sucked the stuff out of his nose and throat, and after about 3-4 more good, obviously very excruciating pushes. So of course I wanted to see, what I saw was a little thing, which looked like a prune; is the only way to describe it. After what seemed like forever our doctor finally arrived. Around 9:20am the nurse came back and started the pitocin.
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