Adele: 16 and Pregnant

Hello, my prince.

Adele's POV

"Omg we need to get you to the hospital!!" Ally freaks out!

Ally quickly grabs her keys and helps me walk to her car. I feel so much pressure on my cervix which is causing so much pain and the contractions are starting to get out of control. 

I'm totally unprepared because I didn't pack a bag. I've been holding off on doing it every day this week, but I can't worry about that right now. Angelo is coming!

Ally drives as fast as she can to the hospital which is about 10 minutes away from my apartment. 

We finally arrive and at this point I could barely walk. Luckily there were two young men who brought out a wheelchair and helped me into the hospital to maternity triage. 

I held Ally's hand so tight. 

"Don't leave me!" I cried. I was so nervous. 

"I have to go park the car. I'll be back I promise Adele!" She assured me and I nodded my head. 

Once I was officially admitted, they took me up to the labor and delivery unit and got me hooked up to machines. They checked Angelo and his heart rate which was perfect. I am only six centimeters dilated so I'm gonna have to deal with this pain a little longer. Hopefully not too long!

I always said that I wanted to have a natural birth. No epidural, no nothing. However, with each and every minute passing by, I begin to rethink my decision. 

My mother always told me that childbirth was 10x worse every time I complained about my menstrual cramps. She annoyed me when she said that, but she was damn right about it though! This is hell...but it'll be heaven soon. 

While I'm waiting for Ally, I can't help but think about how I wish Angelo had family here to witness him being born. His grandparents, his uncle, his FATHER are all absent. But then I remember all of my family from Mercy. 

Even though my Mercy family is not here physically to witness his birth, I know that they are here in spirit! Ally is here. Plus I texted Lauren and she's on her way to the hospital as well. 

Ally finally comes into the room and shortly after, Lauren arrives. She said that she already called everyone to let them know that I'm in labor.

"How are you feeling?" Lauren asked.

"Alright! I'm starting to get use to the contractions now that I'm timing them. I'm getting a little impatient though. I just want this little nugget to come out already!" I respond.

"Don't rush it babe. He'll be here when he feels like it." Lauren says. We all start laughing!

2 long hours go by and finally the doctor and nurses say its time to push since I am now 1o centimeters dilated. 

Both Lauren and Ally stayed in the room with me to hold my hand upon my request. 

"IM READY FOR YOU ANGELO!" I yell as the doctor tells me push.

I push as hard as I can, and I scream in pain with sweat dripping down my face while Ally and Lauren encouraged me along the way. I'm pretty sure I was squeezing their hands numb, but they were taking it like a champ.  

"There's the head! Keep going Misses Adkins!" the nurse says to me while I try to do my breathing techniques in between pushes. 

I push and push and push for 15 minutes until I feel him finally come out, and a few seconds later I hear him begin to cry. 

Ally and Lauren are in tears and they both congratulates me and gives me hugs and kisses. 

After the nurse cut the umbilical cord and took measurements, she wipes Angelo off again and then hands him to me. 

Tears of joy flow down my cheeks as I look at my little bundle of joy and hold him in my arms for the first time. My seven pound, eight ounce gift was the best gift I ever recieved!

"Hello, my prince. Hello Angelo! Welcome to the world my baby boy." He looked up at me, calm as ever with his piercing blue eyes and just stared at me. 

I examined his features and he looks just like me. He has my eyes, my lips, nose, pale skin, EVERYTHING. 

This feeling is so surreal! I can't believe I'm a mother. I can't believe that I will be able to watch him grow into something so special. 

So many thoughts are racing through my mind, positive and negative. I do my best to ignore the negative ones. I just want to make him proud! I want to be the best Mummy I can be.

After we have some skin to skin contact, the nurses take him to do some testing. Ally and Lauren told the women at Mercy that I had Angelo and that it was a smooth delivery which it relatively was. 

All I know is Angelo won't be having siblings for a while haha! I don't want to experience this again any time soon.

It was 3am in the morning, and Lauren had to leave to get ready for work and Ally was going to go back to my apartment to pack me some personal items that I needed.

I was so appreciative for them being here for me. I couldn't thank them enough!

As soon they left, I fell right to sleep. I was so exhausted and sore from labor and my nurse stressed how important it was to sleep as much as I could.

Luckily, Angelo didn't wake me up too much during the am. I had to breastfeed him four times, but I'm told that other women in the unit was up all night with their babies. 

Its now 8am and the nurses did not waste any time waking me up. I was so grumpy! But they had to take my blood pressure and all that good stuff to make sure I was okay. I lost quite a bit of blood from the delivery so they've been monitoring me and giving me iron. 

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While I was watching videos on breastfeeding, Ally walks in with my duffel bag and a huge congrats balloon.

"Good morning sexy mamma! I hope I didn't wake you" She smiles.

"Aww thanks Ally! No, I've been up for quite some time now." I smile back.

"Well... I packed all the essentials  for you girrrrl. You're set!" She says.

"I knew I could count on you!" I blow her a kiss.

We started having a conversation about Angelo, and I update her about all his testing coming back normal. 

Then all of a sudden she asked me a question that really took me by surprise.........

"Are you going to tell Alex and your parents that Angelo was born?"