IMAGINE [miniseries]

SINGLEPARENT AND PREGNANT

You breathe heavily in and out. Your belly is already full with a nine-month-old baby that is already deep in the pelvis. At the age of 50 you will have another son. Quite strange, since you have an 18-year-old son who is with you at the swimming place. You would have preferred to stay on the couch today because it is so nice and soft, but your son wanted you to swim laps with him today. To do this, you dug out your old, really tight, swimming trunks, which tie tight to you and highlight your genital area. Your son does a lot of water sports and everyone can see it. His muscles are very defined. He catches you as you straighten up and you two slowly walk to the swimming lanes. You have your right hand under your belly button to lose some weight. Then you step into the pool and start swimming. You are a single parent. The baby also will only have one father because you had a one night stand with your son's ex boyfriend and didn't inform him that he was going to be a father too. But that's gone, because you've moved and no one has any more contact with his ex-boyfriend. After three laps the stabbing pain comes back, which you have been feeling all day. It pulls down from your chest into your pelvis. You swim to the edge and hold on tight while the pain sinks deeper. You stick to the edge of the pool and look for the ladder. Then you get out and make your way to the showers, since no one will see you there. When you reach the showers, you close the cabin door behind you and lean against the wall. Just a few seconds later someone knocks on the cabin and you are silent. „Dad is everything all right?", do you hear from the outside and know that it is your son. So you open the cabin and your son enters. "What's going on?" He asks. You straighten up and complain: "Persistent contractions. Uncomfortable. "Your son grabs your stomach and replies: „Makes sense. You're already at the end of your pregnancy. If you can't any more, we can go back home." In a few seconds, your son takes off his swim shorts and crouches down to take off yours. Then you both take a shower and put your pants on again up to the changing room. You are dependent on your son's help, as the individual changing rooms have become much too tight for you over time and all you can still wear is sweatpants and a top. The contractions are still active. When you're both finished, you leave the water park. Your son keeps your pace and you try not to be too slow, but still try to suppress the contractions. But then they pull so deep into your crotch that you can barely breathe. Then you admit in front of your son that you would rather go to the hospital, as these feel like labor pains. You don't have a car so you have to wait for the bus and when it arrives you try to act like you are not in pain.

part 2 | SON OF A 50 YEAR OLD PREGNANT MAN

You are so nervous because you don't know if your father really has labor pains. What you do know is that the bus shakes a lot. Your father keeps pressing your hand together and you are holding his stomach unobtrusively and massaging him. Two stops in front of the hospital, however, the bus drives onto the curb and the bus wobbles once. The chain reaction is that your father presses your hand again and painfully whispers in your ear: "My water b..b...broke..." You actually feel that his sweatpants get wet and you pray that the bus will be at the hospital in no time. After you both got out of the car, your father starts to moan softly. Then you take him under your arms and walk the last few pasr meters with him. When you both arrive at reception, the employees can already see how badly your father is doing and your farther collapses on the floor. You are in a panic and are still holding him upright until a wheelchair is brought in. Your father is having a hard time sitting in the wheelchair because he already wants to spread his legs. The nurses helps him quickly in the circle while they leave you in the waiting room. You actually wanted to be there...