The Silver Bot

We have to go now, we can’t wait any longer. It’s around 11:00 pm on April 1st. The pain must be excruciating, and is never-ending, now. My poor wife cant even walk anymore, just collapses in pain during every contraction. It took us about 10 minutes just to get to the car, because every few steps we needed to stop so I could help her through the intense pain. On her hands and knees is the only position that she can take. I try to get her into the car but she won’t get in the seat. She wants to ride in the back of the SUV (where the dog rides). Whatever it takes right? I load her in on her hands and knees, shut the door, and were off.

About 15 minutes later I fly into the emergency driveway’s valet area. The attendant, who didn’t notice my wife in the back, started speaking and I paid him no attention as I ran to the back of the car. The door swung up, “dios mio” yelled the valet. Seeing my wife on her hands and knees in middle of a painful contraction must have caught him off guard. I ran into the hospital and grabbed the closest wheel chair that I could find, put Ashley in and rushed straight past the registration area and right to the birth center. As soon as we got in, the doctor said, back again and checked her cervix to see how much she was dilated. 10 cm. The doc said the baby coming out now. What!!! Just a few hours ago they sent us home, telling us the baby’s not coming any time soon. Frantically I tried to call our parents, to let them know its time, but we got no service in the hospital. Then I tried the phones in the room, but they didn’t call long distance. I guess its just going to be the two of us, soon, three.