Eve.
We were currently at the hospital and the contractions had not stopped. I was seated on a hospital bed and I focused on the television that was showing the news. I rubbed my stomach in a circular motion hoping that the pain would lessen but that proved futile.
I was in a really foul mood. I don't know why.
Maybe because everybody kept asking me how I was feeling or maybe because I wasn't feeling better. I don't know but I was angry. I wasn't angry at anybody and I wasn't angry at myself but I was angry.
"Darling, it would be dangerous if you delay the birth any further." Mom said, trying to convince me to transfer to the delivery room.
For the past thirty minutes that we've been here, they've been trying to convince me to head to the delivery room but I refused because I was definitely not going to give birth without the presence of the father of my child. Plus, my water hasn't broken yet though the doctor did say that it was only a matter of time.
"Mom, I'm not giving birth without Jason." I said between my breathing exercises.
The pain I was feeling was almost unbearable but I can manage. I refuse to surrender.
Jason promised to be there with me as we welcome our baby and I was definitely not going to do this without him.
"Has he arrived yet?" I asked with a heavy sigh.
Mom turned to Isaiah who held his phone against his ears probably to call Jason.
Isaiah shook his head in response and I sighed.
The room soon became silent with only the sound of my heavy breathing and my occasionally painful moans filling the room.
"Ahh, he picked up!"
"He just landed!" Isaiah suddenly said, breaking the silence.
"Really?, He's here?" I asked with a bright expression and Isaiah nodded.
I soon broke into happy tears and everyone panicked.
"I'm so happy he's here." I said amidst my tears.
"Let me give the phone to.." before Isaiah could complete his statement and pass his phone to me, I screamed in panic as my water burst.
"Jason!!!, Where are you?, My water just broke and our baby is about to be born." I yelled as the nurse took me to the delivery room.
I couldn't wait any longer since my water had burst now.
"I'm coming baby." I heard Jason's voice over the phone as Isaiah followed behind as they wheeled me out.
"Hurry up!"
"I can't wait any longer." I whined as I held my stomach.
"I'll be there before you know it but for now let the doctors take care of you." Jason said in urgency.
The doctor asked me to continue my breathing exercise as they prepare for the birth process.
I was now in the birth room, my legs were spread apart and the doctor urged me to push and try to move my muscles.
It was painful but I was going to give birth to my baby the natural way and not through operation, not through caesarean section.
But of course, I didn't think it would be this painful. Nevertheless, I have no regrets.
"Arghhh Jason!" I screamed.
"You can do it!, I'll be right there." I heard Jason's voice and I tried to look around for him but one of the nurses held up Isaiah's phone so I could see it.
I'm guessing Mom was the one who asked her to hold it so I won't be alone in this.
"Arghhh oh God!"
"This is your fault!!"
"Arghhh!" I cried loudly as I tried to push.
"Oh honey!"
"You can do it, you're amazing, I love you so much."
"Just push for our babies." Jason said over the line and I sighed heavily before pushing again.
Babies?
Did I hear him say babies?
I continued pushing until the doctor said she could see the baby's head.
I could lightly feel that someone was wiping my forehead occasionally but I couldn't focus due to the pain that I was feeling.
I could no longer see the people around or how many people were around neither could I hear what they were saying either. The only thing that was running through my mind was that I needed this baby out and as soon as possible.
"The first baby just came out, a healthy baby boy." The doctor said holding a baby and my eyes widened.
"Did you say first baby?" I asked in confusion.
"Yes, according to the chart I was given, you're pregnant with twins." The doctor said and I frowned.
"So I'll have to push again?" I asked quietly and she smiled.
"Don't worry, it will be easier than the first." She said and I rolled my eyes.
Easy for her to say, she's not the one pushing the baby out. Is she?
"The baby will be taken out so he'll be taken care of." A nurse said after the umbilical cord of the first baby was cut.
As the nurse left, Jason came inside and I smiled in relief.
He caressed my forehead and kissed my damp temples.
"You did well baby." He said, making me smile.
"J-Jason." I whispered softly with a smile. My voice was weak and my chest was heaving up and down out of breath. I was exhausted but I was glad that Jason was here now.
"They say we're having two babies." I said to Jason who smiled in response.
"You knew?" I asked and he nodded.
So he knew?
I tried to push again and indeed the pain was much less than the first time.
"Just a little more, the second baby is almost out." The doctor exclaimed but I wasn't even paying attention anymore.
I was about to die of exhaustion when my baby's loud bawls echoed in the room like a siren.
"Would you like to cut the cord?" I heard the doctor ask Jason to which he answered that he does and did as he was instructed.
"The twins are two weeks early so it would be better to incubate them to help them fully develop, aside from that.." I couldn't hear what the doctor was saying anymore as I blacked out from exhaustion.