Christy had been on and off the hospital due to the early signs of labour she was having. The midwife after checking her body would tell her it's not yet time.
She called her husband immediately. He was in the living room.
"Honey! Please come!"
Her husband rushed to the kitchen and saw her state. He got his car key and gently led her to his car parked outside.
He brought her already packed bag and they left for the hospital.
Immediately they got to the hospital, the midwife came out to help her into the labour ward.
She was immediately examined and asked to wait. She was then under the watch of the midwives.
She was grunting in pain and having contractions from time to time.
They told her to notify them when the contraction become stronger.
She was watching her body even though she was in pain.
Her husband, Kambili was in the waiting room panting. He was praying and hoping to hear good news.
In the labour room, Christy was examined again when the contraction was becoming unbearable. She was led to the delivery room.
The midwives helped her climb the delivery table. They helped her position her body.
She laid on her back and opened her hips, her knees bent and hands held behind her knees for leverage. She was guided on how to push.
"You can only push when a contraction comes," one of the midwives said.
"When asked to push, prop up, put your chin to your chest, look below your belly button, take a deep breath and push as if you are having a bowel movement," she continued.
She was trying to repeat herself when the contraction peaked.
"Push!!!"
"Mmmhhh nmmmhhh mhmhh," Christy grunted, putting her utmost strength into it but the baby didn't come out.
The contraction stopped.
The midwife encouraged her and told her to try again when the contraction peaks.
A few seconds later, it came again.
"Push!!!!!"
Holding her knees and looking below her navel, she moaned with all her might.
Still, the baby wasn't forthcoming. The midwives checked her uterus. They confirmed she could deliver normally.
During those periods they kept monitoring the baby's heartbeat.
She tried again and again but to no avail.
The midwife called her husband and informed him the situation of things. They suggested that she should be moved to the theatre for cesarean section.
He came and encouraged her.
One of the midwives was about to leave to call a doctor for the surgery when a contraction came again and Christy decided to give it another try. She was prepared like a woman in battle array.
"Push!!!!!!"
Drawing up all the remnants of her strength, she groaned.
Still, the baby didn't come forth. Suddenly she started screaming, then there was no contraction and she wasn't instructed to push either. She was looking in a particular direction and screaming, everyone was confused.
"Help me! help!!!"
Her husband held her. She started stuttering.
She was screaming and pointing in a particular direction when she suddenly lost consciousness.
"Baby! Baby!!" Kambili shouted as he shook her.
The nurses quickly checked her heartbeats.
It was beating slowly and with a little less force. They rushed to get the oxygen but before they could come back, the heart stopped beating. With their Doppler device, they checked the baby's heartbeat as well but it had stopped too.
"What's happening nurse? Please what is the problem," he said looking terrified
" I'm sorry, she's dead," the nurse said slowly as she held him.
"What!!! No no no!!! Please tell me it's not true, please!!"
He rushed to where Christy was and wept uncontrollably as he kept shaking her motionless body.
The midwives held him.
TO BE CONTINUED
I am Ayogu Oluchi Eze
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