Being Pregnant

Being Pregnant

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There I was 41 weeks and 5 days Pregnant, being Overdue was an understatement at that point. After Weeks of Begging my Gynecologist Dr. Raymond Brown MD (Temple University Hospital) to induce my labor he finally gave me permission. Dr. Brown told me to arrive back at the hospital the next day which Happen to be on February 29, 2008. What a dilemma, I had placed myself between a rock and a hard place. I wanted to have my Baby as soon as possible but I didn’t want to have her on that day. So I begged Dr. brown to let me come in later in the day so that there would be a possibility that she would be born March 1st instead of February 29th . I went home that day to prepare myself for the delivery of my daughter.

The night of February 29th slowly creep up on me. But I finally made it to the hospital. I was nervous and excited all the same time. The smell of sick people hit me as soon as I walked in to the hospital, it was slightly overwhelmed seeing the people drag across the white linoleum floor as if death was about to take them at any minute. As I rode the elevator to the seventh floor of the inpatient building I began to wonder how it is that life and death are in the same place. As the Doors of the elevator open there was an awkward silence that I did not expect on the labor and delivery floor. I began a slow but steady pace to the big metal doors. I stood there for only a second waiting to be buzzed in by the nurse. After being buzzed in I filled out all my paperwork and was escorted to my room.

This Room with its white Linoleum floor with the Four Blue Diamonds in the middle of each square would be mine for the next 12 hours. I lay in this bed with the brightest white sheets I have seen but yet they made my skin crawl, I am not sure if it was sheets or the fear but I did not want to be in the bed any longer then I had to. I already felt like I was poke and probed by every doctor and nurse in the hospital. I lay in the...