Finally, she went into labor.
Once at the hospital they put her in a room. Her mother sat to the right of her beside her bed and across from her was the door. Standing in the hallway right outside the door was her nurse and dr who were arguing. The nurse said, I disagree with what you are doing and I am writing it in her charts. The dr told her that he didn't care what she thought or what she wrote, that he didn't feel like delivering a baby right then and he wanted the labor stopped. And then the nurse came in and put something in her IV.
Eventually, the baby was born though. And her first cry came out as "muh, muh, maaamaa!" The girls eyes got wide as she thought, did I just imagine that? And the nurse exclaimed, did you just hear that!!?? The young girl smiled. Yes, she heard it. Mama
The baby was 7 lbs 8 oz. and 22 1/2 inches long. She was beautiful and looked just like her father with big, beautiful eyes. But most importantly, she was healthy.
Naturally, there were no "congratulations", flowers, or visitors. She was a teenage mother.
The young girl may not have ever done anything right before, or after, this birth but she did do one thing right. She fought for this baby to have life even though it meant that everyone rejected her, scorned her, laughed at her, treated her bad and eventually...abandoned her.
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