Labor

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Physical

Or more then that

If you

Want to say that it is


Mom sat

Next to dad the whole time

I sat

Alone in the waiting room, counting sheep


Its a

Girl they say when they first caught her

But there

Was something wrong with them 


They kept 

Them in an isolated chamber

Incubator

Of sorts that kept them alive


"She has

To have surgery immediately"

He says

"Or we could lose the baby"


My parents

Nodd at the answer

Knowing

That the child was all they had left for them


Mommy

Sat crying around hour 3

She said

"I want my baby"


Dad held 

Me while we waited, singing

He said

"We'll have her soon"

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