'I don’t know what time my mom arrived, but I know I was relieved.'
Twelve years ago I gave birth to my first child. I called my mom at the first signs of sustained contractions. It was nine days before my due date and my mom had been planning to make the 8-hour drive up the coast when the time grew nearer. But at that phone call, she immediately packed her bags and started making her way up the 5 Freeway.
Twelve years later, my memory of the hospital admissions process is a bit of a blur. I remember a trainee nurse who made several uncomfortable attempts with the speculum before calling a more senior coworker to check my dilation. It was one centimeter. I was surprised — surely those contractions had opened my womb more than one tiny centimeter. They admitted me anyway because the contractions were now coming in quick succession, and advised me to walk and rest.
The pain I had thought was the worst in the car only got worse with each passing minute. Twenty hours of minutes passed. That’s 1,200 minutes. I must have been exhausted, but I didn’t feel exhausted. I felt like I wanted to jump out of my skin and run. I wanted it to stop.
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