My Baby
April 4, 1998 my life changed in the biggest way possible. That was the day my oldest son was born. I'm going to lead you up to the moment I realized that my life was going to be totally different. It was a warm day in July; this moment will stay with me forever. I was only 17, and normally I would go out and hang out with my boyfriend. This day I was taking a pregnancy test. The results were positive. At that moment I realized I was pregnant, but it still didn't hit me.The worst part was having to tell my parents. I couldn't find the nerve to do it. Everyday for five months I tried my hardest, Still no luck. I started to feel sick my throat was all swollen and so me not thinking anything I just asked my mom if she could take me to the doctors. She asked, "What's wrong, are you ok?" I said, "No mom, my throat is swollen and I can barely swallow anything." So she agreed and we were off to the doctors. When we arrived in the doctor's examination room I got the full check up. Well for some reason the doctor asked me if I was sexually active. Of course, being a young girl who was afraid of my parent's reaction I said, no. The doctor didn'
"Well all you use to tell me was that if I got pregnant at a young age you would kick me out." My mom was like, "Why would I kick you out?" Well of course, just my luck, the test comes back positive. That day was one of the worst; I came in from school, that day and my mom told me the news. She asked me, "Why did you lie to me?" The nurse handed him to me, and at that very moment I finally realized what a different life I was going to live from then on. I didn't only have to take care of myself, but I had another life depending on my every move. After twelve hours of labor, came the pushing. I pushed for about ten minutes, but seemed like an eternity. Then at 1:55 pm, my son was born. There was a problem; he wasn't breathing. All I could think about was, did I do something wrong? In the background you could hear the doctors smacking his butt, flicking his foot, just trying to get him to take his first breath. At that moment I was terrified. I asked the doctor if he was ok, she told me, "His heart beat is strong; he's going to be just fine"." As soon as those words came out of her mouth, my son let out the biggest scream. I let out th
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