My Little Secret

Chapter 10 {Edited}

Chapter 10

Oh no! This is it, I know it is. The pains are too far apart so mum isn’t worried.  I’m only having pains every twenty five minutes, but they’ve been constant since four a.m. this morning. It’s now nine a.m.

“Are you okay? Do you need anything?” both Garry and mum kept asking me.

Garry called his mum to tell her I’m having contractions, but they’re still twenty five minutes apart and the hospital said to come in when there only five to six minutes apart; unless I think I need to go in sooner. Mum told them she’ll keep me home for as long as she can.

I was so uncomfortable. I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t stand, I couldn’t lay down.  I was changing positions every five minutes. I had a bath and a shower. I walked around in circles, but I couldn’t get the pain to stop.

Mum and Garry kept trying to get me to eat, but I wasn’t hungry.

“I don’t want anything to eat for Christ sake!” I yelled at the both of them. I know they were only trying to help, but they were pissing me off.

The pains are getting stronger and a little closer together. They are now every fifteen minutes apart and it’s not even two p.m. I couldn’t stay still because once I relaxed I’d get a pain and I had to start all over again.  I just walked around the house. Mum told me to keep walking through my next pain, but gosh was she wrong. Once I got a pain I couldn’t move; I just stopped and bent over.

I tried having another bath. This time Garry washed and rubbed my back to try and relax me as much as he could, but it wouldn’t work. Gosh, nothing seems to be working!

Already I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this. I can’t do this anymore,’ but I kept my thoughts to myself.

Garry, his mum and mine all seemed to be just as nervous. Then again our mums know exactly what this is like.

“It’s only going to get worse honey. This is only the start. Just think, all this pain will be worth it once your precious little girl is wrapped safely in your arms. You’ll forget about how much pain you were in,” my mum said to me as I tried to sit down and rest once again.

The pains were still about fifteen minutes apart and it was four p.m. Gosh, this baby doesn’t want to come out.

“How long does it usually take,” I asked out loud.

“Everyone is different. Some take days, some take hours. It all depends on the baby and the ladies body,” Garry’s mum told me.

“How long did it take you?” I asked her.

“All up from start to finish, twenty hours,” she answered.

“With you honey, it was twenty four hours,” my mum told me.

‘Gosh, it’s only been ten hours,’ I thought to myself. I can’t wait for this to be over, and this isn’t even the worse part! I’m never having kids again!

I finally started to fall asleep at about eight p.m. and the pains were still fifteen minutes apart, but my nap didn’t last long because I woke with a massive pain that made me cry.

“That’s it! Take me now!” I yelled to them. All I wanted was to go to the hospital. I want my little girl out and I want her out now!

“Okay honey, we’ll leave now,” mum said. She told Garry to run upstairs to grab my bag and the baby bag.

Gosh, I hope I packed everything. I think I did. I packed and unpacked both bags about ten times.

We all hopped in the car; mum was driving and Garry and his mum were in the back.