A Better Solution Than Divorce

by Jennifer Allison

  

Richard

For the last few hours before my water broke I was feeling strange. I know most of you would consider a man in a woman's body and having a baby strange. This strange was something that I had never felt like this before not even in the last month.

It had been difficult for me to sleep for the last month so when sleep finally did come I was very grateful. Then being awaken within fifteens minutes I didn't like it one bit. Until I realized my water had broken.

So the feeling that I had been having was the start of my labor pains.

I knew Helen had a big game today, but as with any baby. They came when they wanted not when appropriate for their parents.

"Are you sure?" asked Helen.

"Yes I am," I replied, then showing off the wet sheets.

Helen then climb out of bed and started screaming. "Dean and Jennifer get in here quick." Helen screamed was loud enough to wake our neighbors' two houses down.

When the kids arrived I could hear their mom tell them, "your dad is having his baby, you both know what you are suppose to do."

Before she could finish her instructions I had my first major labor pain. "AAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

I scared both kid so much that they left the room before Helen could finish her instructions.

Dean headed for the phone. First call was to Amanda Blaylock, who by chance was out on an emergency. Then he called the local midwife who had helped with Amanda's baby. No luck there, I wasn't the only expectant mother in labor that night.

Dean then decided without being told. He called Sam my nurse.

"Sam, dad's in labor. I can't reach Dr. Blaylock and the midwife is with someone else."

"I'll be right over," was all that Sam said.

Jennifer's fist job was getting the delivery room ready. The clinic isn't set up for delivering babies so Helen and I had set the room that was my den and then the baby's room up as a delivery room. Jennifer next job was to help her mom get me into that room.

As I was place onto the bed, Dean reported that only Sam was available. I yelled at him, "call Sam back all tell him to bring the epidermal."

"Dear, Sam can't give you the epidermal only Amanda," Helen reminded me.

"At least it will be available when she does make it," I said right before I let out my loudest scream yet.

For the next three hours I screamed every time a labor pain racked my body. Sam was there to help where he could, but that wasn't much. Helen was also there trying to comfort me. I do remember yelling at her at least a dozen times, "You don't know what I am going through." Helen just smile back at me every time.

Also in the room was Dean. Helen and I had talked it over after Jennifer and Dean had made their announcement that wanted to stay switch. We wanted to show him exactly what he could expect when he had a child.

 

Helen

I knew what Richard was going through so I didn't mind it one bit when he yelled at me.

I remembered what I yelled when Dean and Jennifer had made their first appearance. If I was convicted for saying what I had planned to do to Richard for knocking me up. I would died a million times

 

Dean

Today my parents tried to teach another lesson about being a woman.

I spent a lot of time with my dad while he was in labor.

I think my parents were sort of hoping that this help me make up my mind and switch back.

To tell you the truth I enjoyed it. As I watch my dad. I daydream of the day I would be having a baby of my own. I was so excited I ended up with moisture in my panties.

Dad tried to tell me between labor pains. "If you want to a woman you can plan on going through this yourself, Dean."

I just smile back at him.

 

Amanda Blaylock

As I drove up the McLean's driveway. I heard a scream.

There hadn't been a baby born in Tolerance area for the last month. So what happens tonight of all nights four babies decided to make their appearance. I got the first call from a farmer who wife went into labor at 2 in the afternoon. I thought it would a very simple delivery since this was the mother fourth delivery. What I didn't plan on was it was also going to her fifth, twins.

The local midwife got call out at ten that night.

The first words out of Richard's mouth as I entered the room were. "Hurry give me an epidermal."

I look over at Sam. Who shook his head. "Sorry Richard you are to long into delivery."

Richard's reply was screamed at me, "NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

I then asked Sam, "How far is he dilated."

"He is only at 8," Sam told me.

I knew right and then it was going to be a very long night.

 

Richard

A long night was an understatement.

I was still in labor at noon the next day.

During labor is the only time in a woman's life she didn't have to act ladylike. Let's says I used every curse word in the book and invented a lot more to boot.

Helen to her credit stay up the whole time. She told me later that it wasn't because it the fatherly way to wait, She just couldn't sleep with my screaming.

Dean finally fell asleep around four. Helen with the help Sam put her to bed. As for Jennifer she awoke to help when I announced my water broke. Ten minuets or so after the first shock wore off

she was back in bed fast asleep.

Sam left at nine for the office to cancel all of Amanda's scheduled appointments.

 

After 18 hours of labor there was still no baby.

What I didn't know was the conversation going on the Kitchen. "If the baby isn't here in hour, I'm thinking I will have to do a c-section."

"Isn't that dangerous when the woman is in labor?' asked Helen

"Yes it is," answered Amanda. "I don't think Richard can handle it anymore."

Before another word could be said in the matter.

I screamed, "HELEN, AMANDA, COME QUICK!!!!"

As they entered the room I said, "I think this baby has finally decided to make an appearance."

Amanda then looked underneath the sheet and said, "it sure has."

A minute later my legs were in the stir-ups and Amanda was telling me to push.

I thought that labor pain was bad. But compare to delivery, labor was a cool summer breeze, delivery was a hurricane.

Between pushes I was yelling at Helen, "I am going to kill you."

She just smile and said softly. "You wanted to see what it was like to have a baby."

"One more push and that will do it," announce Amanda.

One minute later Susan Ashley McLean was born.

After the first look at my daughter I knew the 9 months of the pregnancy and the seventeen hours of labor was well worth it.

It was a very big Kodak moment as Dean held his new born sister for the first time.

I then said to Helen, "don't you have a game tonight."

"I forgot about it," said Helen. "I can't leave now."

"Leave," I said. "Amanda and Dean have everything under control."

It took a little more proding but Helen finally left for the football field.

I found out later from Jennifer. That all the players had the letters SAM on their helmets as an honor to their coach's baby.

  

  

  

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