1 HIS BIRTH

There is this thing my husband always does when he wants to tell a lie, am sure he knows about it. He would gently leap himself off the ground, talk slowly while maintaining eye contact, he is such a bad liar so I knew he was lieing when he said it was still going to take a month before he returns to the battlefield.

Yes, he is a soilder, a very good one. He got promoted faster than anyone in his regiment till he became colonel. We are expecting a baby, a strong health baby, the problem is the baby is already 2 months late, I heard stories of late dilivery but I never considered them to be true, our hope now is that he joins us soonest. My husband might not be around for the big moment so I would always tap my belle, urging junior to hurry up.

"If you leave, who is going to be by my side?" I asked him. Again he tried to lie but he gave up on that, "you are a string woman sweetie, you forgot how many times you've proven to be stronger than I am, even when am not there, you are going to do alright on your own" he said trying to make me feel better, "but I don't want to do this alone" I whispered to myself, I didn't want him to worry, I knew his work was important even to our unborn child, I sucked in every foul feeling, "I know babe, but I will miss you, please don't go away for too long" I said.

By the time the baby kicked, my husband was long gone. I had been preparing for this day, quickly I booked an Uber and I was at the hospital within minutes, the nurses ran to my rescue, the pain was getting unbearable so the next few moments went by really fast. "Where is your husband?" The nurse asked, I suddenly found the question annoying, I quickly nod my head in response, "any family members" the nurse insisted, I had to shout to let her know I was in pain and had no time for questions.

I was scared, it was my first delivery, I didn't want anything to happen to the baby. Am sure we must have spend hours inside but I was still pushing, how I wished he was here with me, how can he put me is so much pay and go to fight another man battle in the name of patriotism.

At the moment a lot of annoying, provoking and stupid thoughts came to mind, but then the doctor held to my shoulders and looked me in the eye, "you can do this madam, we all know you can, you are strong enough, all you need to do is push madam, just pusshhh". I did as he asked, I believed what he said that I could do it, I silenced every though to focused on the task at hand.

The baby tiny but yet very sharp voice was heard, the doctor handed him over to the nurse to be cleaned up. "Congratulations madam, it's a boy" the doctor said. There was no response, he checked her pulse, "her heart rate is slowing down" he said as he used both hand to press her chest continuously, that didn't work so he used the electrical cadioversion, since that didn't work either, he check her pulse again, it wasn't good, she was gone.

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