What About Omeeka

Fifty Three

Meek

As time passed and after making phone calls to both Nicki and my mom there was arrangements made to get them to this hospital. Of coarse my mom was first to arrive. She had to be by my side to help keep me from shooting somebody.

"Here Meek" she says trying to give me some coffee. I just push the cup away.

"I don't want that" I say.

"Okay I'm here" Nicki's mom says walking into the waiting room. She comes to hug me and my mom. "What's going on now?" She asks.

"They haven't told us anything. Just that they are still working with her and the baby" my mama says.

"Okay. Y'all get up and come pray with me" she says. "Candice, Thembi, Rika, come on babies" she says making us all stand together. After we gather hands she says her prayer. "Lord help my daughter and my granddaughter fight this battle and come out okay. Lord I pray that they stay as healthy and beautiful as you created them to be. We as a family pray that all goes well in that operating room and you give Nicki the strength she needs to push through this. Just make sure she knows she is strong and can overcome this. In the name of Jesus amen" she says.

"Amen" we all say.

"Everything will be okay" Carol says hugging me. We all take a seat again.

I'd say it's been over 12 hours that we have been in this hospital and the doctor finally came back out.

"Okay. I have some good news and I have some bad news" he says. Mrs. Carol stands up with her hands together silently praying for good feedback. My mom stood by close holding onto my hand.

"What's the good news?" I ask.

"Well" he says," both Onika and the baby are okay. We have calmed her down and gotten her body to be stable" he says.

"Thank you" Carol says.

"But the bad news is she is having problems having to push the baby out. When was she suppose to be due?" He asks.

"The baby wasn't suppose to be born for another month or so" I answer.

"Okay, well since having an early breeching with her stress levels she is at a high risk of giving birth right about now. Which is why stabilizing her took so long. She is more concerned with her baby than herself. Usually at the stress levels she was at the baby could of been a still born" he says. I just take a deep breathe and bite down on my lip.

"So what are you doing right now?" Her mom asks.

"Right now we are just taking time for the baby and Onika to operate on their time. We wouldn't want to force the labor to happen at a rapid pace."

"Why can't you just do a C-section?" My mom asks.

"See we were going to go in that direction but the baby was caught in the umbilical cord so we had to stop trying to get Onika to push. This is just going to take some time" he says.

"Can I see them?" I ask.

"Just you are allowed since we are just waiting" he says. I look back at everyone and then walk into the room with the doctor.

Surgeons, doctors and nurses were in the room analyzing her blood pressure, cleaning tools, looking at the sonogram machine and checking Nicki's IVs.

I go beside her and see she had been crying. Her eyes were puffy and she looked tired. I could see blood stains under her and through her covering dress.

"Meek" she says lowly.

"I'm here baby" I say holding her hand.

"I'm scared" she says looking up at me. She looked like she was about to cry.

"Everything will be okay. You and the baby will be okay" I say. Not even realizing it, unnoticed her hand was shaking a bit in my hand. "Baby calm down. For me please calm down" I say.

"Don't leave me" she says holding my hand tighter.

"I got you baby" I say. I grab a napkin and wipe her face with it. "Everyone is praying for this to go well" I say. She just stays quiet. "Your mom is here too" I say. I see her face ease in emotion. "We will get through this" I say. I partially didn't know what else to say to her. I just wanted her to remain calm and stable.

"Onika" the doctor says walking over by us.

"Yes?" She says lowly.

"Are you ready to have this baby?" He asks.

"I- I don't feel right" she says trying to sit up. Her monitor then goes off with multiple beeps.

"Her line is dropping" one of the nurses says.

"Okay Onika stay with me" the doctor says while moving over towards his tools.

"The baby is moving" a surgeon says. The doctor throws gloves on quickly.

"She needs oxygen " the nurse says grabbing tubes.

"Sir we are going to have to ask you to step out" a man says trying to pull me away from Nicki. She then begins to be torn from panicking and me leaving.

"Why can't I stay?!" I ask loudly.

"Rihmeek!" I hear Nicki says. "I want my husband" she cries out.

"Sir just please wait outside" he says leading me out the door. I was fighting to stay in. I see my mom and Nicki's mom running down the hall from hearing me arguing with the surgeons.

"Nika! Nika!" Carol shouts right before they shut the door.

"Meek calm down" my mom says.

"I can't! They wouldn't let me stay in there! Nicki didn't want me to leave!" I say punching the wall. My mom then pulls me into her holding me into a tight hug.

"What happened?" Nicki's mom asks as we all make our way back into the waiting room.

"She was fine. They were both stable and then all of a sudden they said levels were dropping and she needed oxygen. They said the baby was moving. Right when the doctor said she can try pushing again she said she didn't feel right. Things just went wrong again!" I say mad. I leave out the waiting room quickly to go outside. I just needed some air.

Nicki

After watching Meek get out out the room I could barely see what was going on through the tears I was crying. I couldn't move. I was so uncomfortable.

"Nicki stay with us. Push lightly okay?" The doctor says. I was in so much pain. All I can think is come on Melanie. Work with mommy. I struggled to remain calm through all this.

"Breathe slow for me Nicki" a nurse says. I was hot, sweaty, stressed, panicked, scared and uncomfortable.

For a few minutes I couldn't feel anything from the baby at all. That's what scares me. Carrying another life is scary.

"Okay Nicki this is it!" the doctor says. "Someone go get the father!" He yells. "Nicki push slow. Just be gentle with her" he says. I cry and groan pushing. It was just so hard trying to push through the pain from my body. I then see Meek rush inside.

"Here she is" the doctor says as I hear the baby crying. I fall back breathing heavy. "You have a beautiful baby girl" he says handing her to me. I take one look into her face and it was like a whole different view of the world for me. Looking up Meek was standing right next to me.

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