Life Changing

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            During the middle of my teen years I was excited to become a new mom, but I was nervous I didn’t know what to expect.  Being a mom at a young age is very hard I‘ve seen how some people have to deal with being a teen mom and how they have struggle. When I was in my ninth month of pregnancy I was just waiting for me to meet my son and trying to go school. I am not going to deny I was worried if I was going to be able to finish high school. My last day of junior year was fun I got to say bye to all my friends and I was ready for the summer to begin. It felt weird because the start of my senior year I was not going to have a big stomach anymore. A while after I had been on vacation I had gone to the doctor’s office and I was going to find to when I was going to give birth. Then the doctor had told me your son could come anytime now you are full term. I was happy but nervous of how the process would go during labor and delivery.

            It was the middle of the night, when I started having a weird feeling that I had to go to the restroom and I had gotten up my bed. When I got up the bed it felt weird I got this feeling that was unexplainable. Then when I had least expected it my water had broken. It was unusual to feel the water going down my leg. When I had notice it I had to wake up my mom and tell her that it was time for me to go and have a baby. She had told me to go and take a warm shower and put it in my back so it could help with the pain. After I had gotten out of the shower my mom had told me to dress and that she was going to go wake up my dad and my two little sisters. That’s I was started to nervous I didn’t know what to expect of the delivery. Especially since it was my first kid and what I have heard that labor is very painful and it’s a long wait. As soon as we had gotten ready it was around five o’clock in the morning we had left the house and first we had to go to drop off my sister’s at my aunt’s house. After that we had to the CMH in Ventura because that was the only place where they had token my health insurance. The long drive to the hospital seemed like an eternity it seemed like I was never going to get there because the pain was getting worse. As soon I got the hospital I had to fill out some paper work before they would take me into the labor and delivery. We walked to the elevator where I had to go to the second flood, the elevator felt weird because it was taking us up the floor too quick. Then finally we got to the second floor were they had taken me to my room.

            The nurse had told to if I need to go to the restroom to go right now before the labor process will continue. She told me to change into a gown. The room was weird because the bed where I was staying in was where I was going to have my son. Then I had laid down now knowing what I was going to expected from this experience. A nurse had come into my room and she had checked how far I was dilated. She had checked me and she had notice that I wasn’t has dilated that they had to induce my labor to get things going. She had left the room and came back with the IV to put in to my hand. That painful pitched from the needle hurt so bad it had made me cry, the nurse told me that she is going to put a medication in the IV called Pitocin. As soon they had put that in my pain level was becoming worse everything was speeding up. A couple hours had passed but I don’t remember how long it has been. Then a nurse had come into the room and she had asked if I wanted any pain medication to help with the pain that I was dealing with. My mom had told me not to get the epidural because that may end up causing back problems and it could end up becoming worse over time. I ended up getting a medication that goes in the IV but I don’t remember the name of it. With the medication I was able to go to sleep for a while to get my mind of the pain.

            When I woke up  my doctor came in the room and she hold told me that I am going to check how far you are dilated. She had checked me and I was ready to start pushing. I got so nervous and scared when they had brought the supplies even though it was covered I didn’t know what to expect. The doctor and the nurses came into the room to start setting up the items for the delivery. They had made me lay in the bed with my bottom all the way to the edge of the bed, with my legs up in the set up. The Doctor told me to hold my thighs with my hands and to start to push. I pushed every time I had a contraction because thats what they had told me to do.  Minutes had passed and I was getting tired of using all my strength. Then she told to give one big push, so I did what she had told me when I did that my baby’s head had come out. That’s when they had cleaned up is airway so he will be able to breath. She said to give one more big push, when I did my baby was born. When I hear those first cries I had cried of how happy I was to be a mom.

            Seeing my son for the first time it was a feeling that had left me speechless. He was a wide awake baby with his eyes wide open. When I called him Anthony he moved his head around trying to follow my voice. Anthony had a little bit of hair but his hair was a little Mohawk which it looked funny because they were little hairs standing up. Also my little boy was skinny he weighed six pounds and one ounce his length was 19 inches. My child had little skinny legs and arms, since he only weighed six pounds. Since he was so thin his skin was a little wrinkly. His cheeks were rosy, he had big eyes with curly eyelashes, and he had clear skin. That’s when I realized; that I would succeed has a teen mom. I would be able to become someone in life. There would be struggles along the way but I would be able to do it for my son and I whatever comes along the way I would be able to overcome.