Meeting in Paradise

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I am nine months pregnant and I am starting to get really nervous about giving birth. Maybe it's because my delivery with Angelo wasn't all that easy or maybe it's that this baby was really something that I wasn't expecting.

Either way he's going to be coming soon whether we like it or not.

Rich has definitely gotten much more protective over me since our fight. I can't tell if it's because he feels bad or it's because I am carrying his child. It maybe both honestly.

Simon picked up Angelo today and it will probably be the last time that I see him before this baby arrives. I don't think that he fully understands that his whole life is going to change soon. He will no longer be my only child but he will be my little baby forever.

Angelo knows what it's like to have a sibling. Simon has a daughter who was very young when Simon and I started dating. Now she is twenty.

I always have felt a little guilty for never giving Angelo a sibling close in age with him. If it was up to Simon, Angelo would have had a sibling four years apart from him but I just couldn't do that. My body wouldn't let me.

I sit down on the couch and pick up my phone. I had a text message from Rich saying that he was on his way home from work. Is it really 6pm already? I looked at the time and sure enough it was.

I didn't have anything planned for the night but I am sure Rich is going to be busy watching basketball games.

At my last appointment the doctor told us that we should stop having sex because I am dilated to a two so if we have sex it might harm the baby.

I'm not going to lie knowing that I am two centimeters dilated is kind of freaking me out. With Angelo I had a C-section so I didn't have to go through any of this. But I feel like I am having my first child all over again. I am completely clueless.

I hear the door open and Rich comes in and sets his things down on the kitchen counter. "Hey baby how was your day?" I say to him as he is walking into the living room and sitting down next to me on the couch. "It was good but my day is a lot better now that I am with you." "You're cute you know that" "I know" he winks and I stand up to go upstairs.

"Del where are you going?" He moans "I have an idea for what we can do tonight. Follow me." I say getting farther up the steps. "Babe you know we can't have sex no point in being up here other than to sleep." He says following me. "We need to pack the hospital bag. I could have this baby at any moment." "That's kinda scary to think about isn't it?" "Well how do you think that I feel. I'm terrified. I just hope it's nothing like my delivering with Angelo." I say starting to become emotional. "It's okay I will be here through everything."

I am sitting on the ground zipping up the suitcase for the hospital when I get a shooting pain through my side. Was that a contraction? I thought but once it went away I felt fine.

I stand up and the same pain goes through my side but it is more powerful. "Rich can you come here?" I say. He is in the bathroom and I am now sitting on our bed. "Are you alright?" He ask being able to see the pain in my face. "I keep getting these pains in my side." "Do you think that they are contractions?" "I don't know. Just come lay in bed with me I need you to snuggle with me."

He pulls back the comforter and we lay down in the bed. One thing about me is when I am in pain all I want is to be held. That was part of the reason Angelo's birth was so hard. I was in so much pain and I had to lay on this uncomfortable table and be cut open. It wasn't a good feeling and Simon couldn't do anything to help me.

Once again I had a pain in my side but this time I felt water rush down my leg as well. "UH RICH MY WATER JUST BROKE!" I yelled. He jumps up and picks me up and takes me to the car.

I have never felt so much pressure on my stomach in my life before.