I was pregnant and it was my due date so I was in the maternity ward of the hospital. The doctor checked to see how open I was and told me I was really open and almost ready to start pushing. Surprised, I asked him if I should push even though I wasn’t having any contractions yet, nor feeling any pain. He said sure, lets try and see how it goes. I asked if there was a particular position that I needed to be in and he said no, I could sit/lie/stand however I wanted. He named a coupe of positions, like “the gun”, which I had never heard of and I realized I was totally unprepared to give birth.
But when I tried to push, it felt all wrong so we decided to wait for a bit. The doctor left the room but the nurse stuck around to see if I needed anything. I decided to go for a walk since I had heard that could get the labour started. The nurse showed me some exercises to do during the walk (like massage the ground with my fingers) and when she left my water broke. I was all excited about it but Arvid, who was there for moral support, seemed a little freaked out and didn’t want to come close enough to me for a hug.
I wanted to call my mom and get some good advice, but I also had to text dad and Natalie and some other people to let them know this was it, I was going to have a baby soon. When we left my private room to walk around the ward I realized I was only wearing a t-shirt so I called the nurse and asked if I could get one of those towel skirts that everyone else was wearing.
After we had walked around for a bit (with no change in the contraction area), I felt my stomach growling and told the nurse I needed to take a poo. She was excited about this and I guessed it was because that would make my pooing myself during delivery less likely. She showed me to a large shower area which was in conjunction to the waiting room. I was surprised I was supposed to shit in the shower but the drains were large so I supposed that’s what they were for. I tried to pull the curtains enough so that the people in the waiting room wouldn’t be privy to my defecation but, as always, it was hard to manage. I waved to Frida who was waiting for me, and luckily what I managed to get out of me was soft enough that it just ran right through the drain.