Pregnant Little Liars

Beautiful Baby Girl

*Hanna's POV*

"Just stay calm." The doctor says, examing my cervix. I collapse onto the hospital bed.

"I can't!" I cry. The pain is unbearable. I went into labor so fast that they weren't able to give me any meds to help with the pain.

"Please!" I beg with tears rolling down my cheeks. "I can't do this!"

"Honey, you've dialated too far to stop now. There's no going back now. I know it's scary, and I know it's hard, but you can do it!" The doctor says, filled with compassion. I shake my head and continue to sob. My head spins and I feel faint. Why did I ever think I could do this?

"Have you figured out what made her go into labor so suddenly?" The doctor asks, looking to the nurse for answers. "It's rare for someone, especially a teenager to just go into labor without any warning signs."

The nurse shakes her head. "No sir, but she is hemorrhaging very severely. This could be very critical for both her and the baby."  

This is not what I want to hear. I knew something was wrong the second I went into labor, but I had no idea how serious this was. I burst into tears again and give up completely, collapsing onto the hospital bed and covering my face with my hands. Doctors and nurses come around, hooking me up to a million IVs and oxygen tubes.

"What's going to happen to my baby girl?" I sob. Caleb comes around from behind the curtain.

"I'm sorry sir. No visitors during the delivery." A nurse says while guarding the door. Caleb pushes past her.

"No. I'm the fiancè of the patient, and the father of the baby. I have a right to be here. If you have a problem with that, you can take it up with my lawer in court."

The nurse looks taken aback, but let's him in without holding back. Caleb comes over to my bed side. He reaches for my hand and I take it. It's silent except for my sobs and desprate attemps for air. I'm sweating from head to toe, and my body shakes violently. Blood soaks through my hospital gown and leaks onto the bed sheets. Caleb looks at me with tears in his eyes.

"You're going to be okay. We're going to get through this." He says, biting his lip and looking away to avoid crying. "I can't bear the thought of losing you." By this time I am so weak and faint from breathing heavily. I'm in so much pain that I feel like I'm dying. Based on what the doctors have told me, I basically am dying. Caleb bows his head, and let's the tears fall from his face and onto my chest. He sits there for a while before regaining his courage to continue talking.

"Hanna, we are engaged. We are going to get married! We have a beautiful baby girl who is on her way out right now!" His voice breaks. "We have a beautiful new house and so many loving friends." My breathing slows, but barely. I can feel myself getting weaker and weaker with each passing second.

"There's so much we need to do still! I haven't seen your wedding dress yet! We haven't had our honeymoon!" Caleb's voice breaks and heavy sobs escape from his mouth.

"I haven't seen you walk down the aisle..." I can't hear him anymore. I want more tears to come, but they don't. I begin to lose consciousness. Caleb's words are muffled, and a continuous ringing behind my ear, makes it nearly impossible to hear him. I can feel my soul slipping away. There's so much that I want to say to everyone! On the inside, I'm screaming to live for just a little longer, but no words come out. Blood is everywhere. I feel numb from my waist down. My heart isn't beating fast enough, and I feel weak, faint, and death stricken. Then everything starts closing in. The room, the people, everything. My eyes roll to the back of my head. This is it...goodbye.

***
"Hanna!" the doctor yells. My eyes snap open. I'm still in the hospital room. I feel something wet on my face, so I touch it. Tears are swimming in the corners of my eyes and on my face. I feel fine. I'm not dead, I'm here in the room. The emergency C-section must have been successful! I hear a shrill cry echo through the room. The doctor steps out of the way, revealing Caleb, who's standing there with tears fresh on his cheeks, holding our sweet baby girl who's squealing and crying.

"Hanna, the emergency C-section worked! She's here."

"Caleb, we did it!" I say excitedly, still groggy from all the medication they gave me. I went into labor super suddenly, which caused me to hemorrhage, so the doctors had to give me a ton of medication to help the child birth progress smoothly. When that didn't work they immediately whisked me away to the operating room for an emergency surgery. The anesthesia must have been very effective because I don't remember feeling or recalling anything from the surgery.

"We did it, Hanna! We did it!" Caleb cries, laying our beautiful baby girl on my chest.

"Ashley Taylor Rivers, you're the most beautiful baby girl in the whole entire world." I say, kissing my new baby girl on the head. Almost immediately, her crying ceases, and she falls asleep in my arms. I can't help but cry tears of joy and relief as I stare at my beautiful baby girl who's sleeping soundly in my arms. The panic and exhaustion from the day is finally settling in and the realization that I was so close to death is weighing heavily on my chest. I am so grateful to be alive and well.

I grab Caleb's hand. He kisses it and gently rubs Ashley's hair. I can't believe I waited ten whole months and two weeks to meet my baby girl. That's ten months and two week too long! But here she is, and here I am, happy, safe, and sound.