Time to be born (Eng/Esp)
It's 6 o'clock in the morning, I'm in my room and I wake up because I start to feel some slight pains in my hips. I wait a moment before sitting up, it could be a false alarm. But it is not, what I have been waiting for forty weeks has arrived.
It is January 5th and this is going to be my second delivery. The first one was normal, but induced, and I decided that this baby would come at the right time, when I was ready to come out. Why rush it?
The first birth was traumatic because the baby still had to get down and settle to come out. The baby was very calm and secure in my uterus. I was going on 39 weeks and they induced labor. I waited several hours until I was dilated.
But my baby, I could feel him on top and I imagined what he would think. Because they made me come out, it wasn't time yet. And because he resisted, they had to apply forceps to force him to be born.
A month ago, I had my last consultation with the obstetrician. She told me that we would wait until 38 weeks and if there were no signs of labor, to call her, and she would induce because waiting can bring complications.
That time came and there were no signs, and I continued in the sweet wait. I was calm, it was the last two weeks of the year, the Christmas holidays and the end of the year, and I was distracted by this, I had the intuition that it was not the time for the baby to be born. I already knew it was a girl, and she would be born the first week of the year. My husband was distressed.
"Aren't you going to call the doctor? She said we shouldn't wait any longer"
"Don't worry, I feel that we can, it is up to my body and the baby to decide. There is a certain time for the birth and that date should not be brought forward, because everything changes"
I was convinced that somehow the date and time of birth is a unique instant, a conjunction of astronomical events that somehow influence every being.
I sat up and woke my husband.
"What's wrong?"
"I'm having contractions!, it's time"
"Did your water break?" He stood up in a hurry and got dressed quickly, while I did the same. We already had everything ready to leave quickly.
"My water didn't break", I told him as I finished getting dressed, but the pains are more frequent.
We quickly left the house and went to the clinic. We called the doctor. But at that time she did not answer.
When we got to the clinic, they called again.
"Dr. Tovar, a patient of yours just came in with contractions".
"I'll be right there".
In the meantime, they took me to a room. The doctor on duty and a nurse came in, examined me and said that I still needed to dilate.
I told them that I was almost there, but they didn't listen to me. It is as if we mothers do not know what is happening in our bodies, the changes can be very fast and the whole process is accelerated.
"Let's wait a little bit", he talked to my husband, and I was there with my pains more and more frequent and stronger.
They left the room and left me with my husband, who was very nervous.
A few minutes passed, and I grabbed him tightly by the arm.
"I feel like pushing, I can't take it anymore, the baby is coming".
"Calm down!"
"I can't calm down! Bend down to see"
When he bent down to look, the head with black hair was peeking out, pushing to get out and see the light.
At that moment everything was running, I was mounted on the stretcher, I saw the lights on the ceiling passing quickly. The baby was already being born and when we got to the delivery room, a very young doctor finished helping her out. I had already done my job. The doctor could not make it in time.
When I was more relaxed in the room, with my baby by my side, Dra Tovar came in to visit me.
"You got lost, you didn't call me when I told you to induce labor". She looked at me and claimed me with a smile, I was relieved that she was not upset, and continued. "But you were right, the baby already knew when to be born and everything turned out well. I congratulate you, she is a beautiful baby girl, and it looks like she is going to be very strong-willed"
And that's how she is, independent and with a great strength of spirit, just as she came into this world.
With her eyes wide open and her head covered with shiny black hair, she would look at me with her black eyes and from time to time she would cry, claiming my attention. She was born at 8 am, as recorded on her birth chart.
Son las 6 de la mañana, estoy en mi cuarto y me despierto porque comienzo a sentir unos ligeros dolores en las caderas. Espero un momento antes de incorporarme, puede ser una falsa alarma. Pero no es así, llegó lo que había estado esperando desde hace cuarenta semanas.
Es 5 de enero y este va a ser mi segundo parto. El primero fue normal, pero inducido y yo decidí que este bebé llegaría en el tiempo correcto, cuando estuviera preparado para salir. ¿Por qué apurarlo?
La primera vez fue traumático porque al niño todavia le faltaba bajar y acomodarse para salir. El bebé estaba muy tranquilo y seguro en mi útero. Iba a cumplir 39 semanas y me indujeron el parto. Estuve varias horas esperando hasta que alcancé la dilatación
Pero a mi bebé, yo lo sentia arriba y me imagine lo que pensaría. Porque me hacen salir, todavia no es tiempo. Y como se resistio tuvieron que aplicarme forceps para obligarlo a nacer.
Hace un mes tuve la última consulta con la médico obstetra. Me dijo que esperaríamos hasta la semana 38 y si no había señales de parto, que la llamara y me lo induciría porque esperar puede traer complicaciones.
Llegó ese tiempo y no hubo señales y yo continué en la dulce espera. Estaba tranquila, eran las dos últimas semanas del año, de las festividades navideñas y fin de año y me distraje en esto, tenía la intuición de que no era el tiempo para que la bebé naciera. Ya sabía que era una niña y nacería la primera semana del año. Mi esposo sí estaba angustiado.
—¿No vas a llamar a la doctora? Ella dijo que no debíamos esperar más tiempo.
—No te preocupes, yo siento que sí se puede, eso lo decide mi cuerpo y la bebé. Hay un momento determinado para el nacimiento y esa fecha no debería adelantarse, pues todo cambia.
Yo estaba convencida de que de alguna manera la fecha y hora de nacimiento es un instante único, una conjunción de eventos astronómicos que influyen de alguna manera en cada ser.
Me incorporé y desperté a mi esposo.
—¿Qué pasa?
—¡Tengo contracciones! ¡voy a parir!
—¿Rompiste fuente? —Se paró apresurado y se vistió rápidamente mientras yo hacía lo mismo. Ya teníamos todo preparado para salir de urgencia.
—No he roto fuente, —le dije mientras terminaba de arreglarme, —pero los dolores son más frecuentes.
Salimos rápidamente de la casa y nos fuimos a la clínica. Llamamos a la doctora. Pero en ese momento no respondió.
Al llegar a la clínica, volvieron a llamar.
—Dra Tovar tiene aca una paciencia que llegó con contracciones.
—Ya salgo para alla —les dijo.
Mientras tanto, me llevaron a una habitación. Entró el médico de guardia y una enfermera, me examinaron y dijeron que todavía me faltaba dilatar.
Yo les decía que ya faltaba poco, pero no me hacían caso. Es como si las madres no supieramos lo que está ocurriendo en nuestro cuerpo, los cambios pueden ser muy rápidos y todo el proceso se acelera.
—Vamos a esperar un poco, —el hablaban con mi esposo y yo allí con mis dolores cada vez más frecuentes y fuertes.
Salieron de la habitación y me dejaron con mi esposo, que estaba muy nervioso.
Pasaron apenas unos minutos y lo agarré fuertemente por el brazo.
—¡Tengo ganas de pujar!, ya no aguanto más, el bebé ya viene.
—¡Cálmante!
—¡No me puedo calmar! Asómate a ver.
Cuando se agachó a ver, la cabeza con cabello negro se asomaba, empujando para salir y ver la luz.
En ese momento todo fue correr, me montaron en la camilla, yo veía las luces en el techo pasar rápidamente. La niña ya estaba naciendo y al llegar a la sala de parto, una médico muy joven terminó de ayudarla a salir. Ya yo había hecho mi trabajo. La doctora no pudo llegar a tiempo.
Ya con más tranquilidad en la habitación, con mi bebé al lado, ella entró a visitarme.
—Te perdiste, no me llamaste cuando te dije para inducirte el parto.—Me miró y me reclamó con una sonrisa, me alivio que no estuviera molesta, y continuo. Pero tenías razón, la bebé ya sabía cuando nacer y todo resultó bien. Te felicito, es una hermosa niña y parece que va a ser muy voluntariosa.
Y así es ella, independiente y con una gran fortaleza de espíritu, tal como llegó a este mundo.
Con los ojos abiertos y su cabeza cubierta de un cabello negro y brillante, me miraba con sus ojos negros y de vez en cuando lloraba, reclamando mi atención. Nació a las 8 am como aparece registrado en su carta de nacimiento.
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The experience of childbirth is a big event for a woman, it involves many emotions and physical changes from beginning to end. Fortunately there were no complications in your case and a new life shone into this world thanks to you.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Excellent day.