Speechless

The Topic: Write about a time a friend left you speechless.

So, there’s a girl I know who had a baby last week.

She claims she didn’t know she was pregnant.

I feel dumb because I had just seen her on Friday and I didn’t notice. In my defense, she wears her clothes baggy, and has always been a bit on the frumpy side. Still, she was never fat, you would think I would have noticed if she was hiding a basketball under her sweatshirt.

So, here’s what happened. She went to work on Monday, everything was fine. She went to bed Monday night. In the middle of the night, early Tuesday morning, she woke up and couldn’t get comfortable. She got up, went to the bathroom. Almost immediately, she felt like she had to pee again. She went to the bathroom again. Peed for days.

(my water never broke, so I cannot attest to this, but my friends who have say that this is what it feels like, except if you try to stop it mid stream, you can’t)

So, she went back to bed, and then started having intense stomach cramps. Writhing in pain. Her husband asked if he should call an ambulance-- he thought maybe she had appendicitis. She said no, but he should drive her to the hospital because something is seriously wrong.

He took her to the ER, she gave her symptoms to the intake nurse, they told her to sit in a wheelchair. She said no, it hurt to sit (that‘s because the baby's head was crowning). She stayed standing up, dealing with the pain, waiting for some drugs, and she felt like she had to go to the bathroom, but this time, Number 2. She’s not even in a room yet, so she goes to the bathroom in the ER waiting room.

And there, she pushed out a 6 and a half pound baby girl while on the toilet.

I know, gross, right? And I would totally call BS if I didn’t hear it straight from the horse’s mouth!

So, she thinks she’s going to the bathroom, but has a baby instead. She starts screaming, the nurses and her husband come in, the nurses run for a doctor, everything is taken care of.

Mom has been released from the hospital, baby is still there. I don’t think anything is wrong with her, I think they’re probably keeping the baby to make sure she’s ok, and I have to believe there’s an ongoing CPS investigation.  I mean, seriously. This is the act of a very scared teenager, someone extremely naïve, or someone seriously mentally disturbed. This is not the behavior of a 30-something married woman with a college degree.

I’m telling you, the whole story left me speechless.