Anytime, Anywhere For You

31. Labor

June 15 2024

It's official, I'm nine months pregnant! Which means our babies will be here any day.

This is the heaviest and most uncomfortable I will get and I'm too excited to get this over with.

I'm sitting in the living room, as Naomi and Sasha are making lunch.

"Are you excited? You're due any day now." Sasha smiles, as she brings me a turkey sandwich and a bowl of mangos.

"I'm super excited. Just waiting for them to want to come out." I take a sip of my water and Sasha places the glass on the coffee table.

"How are you feeling?" Naomi asks.

"My back is killing me and I feel like my body is gonna burst open. I'm trying to stay in good spirits, but I'm so tired." I sigh, as I eat some of my sandwich.

"I feel you, girl. I had two and I can still kinda feel the pain of birth." Naomi shivers at the thought.

"Not to mention our bestie over here wants to have a natural birth. That's gonna be pain like you've never felt before." Sasha frowns at the thought.

"Please, stop talking about it. I'm getting nervous." I sigh.

Sasha smiles sympathetically at me and I continue to eat. Deciding to ignore both of my friends for now and pray that this pregnancy goes well.

Though my OBGYN says that the babies are perfectly fine, anything can happen at this point. Especially, if I start to stress.

I sigh and put down my food.

"Sasha, can you help me stand? I have to pee." I frown, as I grab her hand and a spasm goes through my back.

I grit my teeth, as I stand up through the pain and right when I stand, my water breaks.

"Oh, God.." Naomi gasps, as she sees the front of my sweats get wet.

"What happened?!" Sasha asks, a bit of panic in her voice.

"I think...my water just.." Right before I can finish, a terrible wave of contractions go through my stomach and I cry out.

"It's starting! Call Jey!" I scream.

Naomi grabs her phone and calls her brother in law.

"Jey, get your ass home, Now! Aniyah is going into labor!" I hear Jey's raised voice on the other end of the line.

"Ok, ok! I'll call her OBGYN. Just get here!" Naomi hangs up.

"Come on, sweetheart. Let's go get you changed and we can head to the hospital." Sasha coos and I nod.

"Take deep breaths, Niyah. This will be over in a few hours!" Naomi grabs my phone from the coffee table and searches my contacts.

Today is gonna be rough...
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Jey made it to the house, right as we were backing out of the driveway. He went inside to get the baby clothes and told us to head to the hospital.

"Oh, God! I can't..I can't!" I cry, as I grip the headrest of the backseat.

"Yes you can, Sweetheart. We're almost there." Sasha says, as she rubs my hair.

"Take deep breaths, Babes." Naomi instructs from the driver's seat.

"Look at me." Sasha says and she breathes deeply.

I mimic her and I start to feel a bit better, until another contraction hits me at full force.