| | It happened early in the morning, a few days ago. I had the rudest shock in my life as far as I can recall. I woke up earlier than Pat as usual and headed towards the bathroom. As I was applying the soap onto my face, I heard a slight cry of pain from outside the bathroom. I didn't pay much attention to it as I thought I misheard it. Less than 5 seconds later, Pat was calling out my name in pain...
That moment is the MOST SHOCKING MOMENT I ever had in my life as far as I can recall. I admit I might be a little faint in heart but the cry of pain from Pat at this kind of moment caught me dumbfounded. The first thing that came across my mind was,
"Ivan is coming out now??!!"
With soap all over my face, I grabbed my towel, wrapped myself hurriedly and rushed out of the bathroom attending to Pat who was lying on the bed. She said in Mandarin,
"My leg is cramping!!!"
No words can describe how relieved I feel at that moment after the shock that I have gotten a few seconds earlier...
I am very convinced that I am not the only one who has such experience. The scenarios might differ but the shock and feeling should be almost the same. Being a male who does not really understand how it is when it's time to enter into labour makes it stressful when one's wife is in her heavy pregnancy. In fact, during a normal circumstances, for a woman to enter into labour, there will be several significant signs showing and it won't come so suddenly (correct me if I am wrong). There will definitely be pain but the pain comes every few minutes and one can feel the muscles contracting. During this period of time, it is still possible for one to finish off whatever chores that one is doing and head to the hospital in the calmest way possible (correct me again if I am wrong).
Honestly, who cares about the facts and all that when the emergency comes by especially it is your first child and you have never had such an experience before. For normal people, the spontaneous reaction will be to quickly leave everything in its place and rush to the hospital in case the child is coming out of the womb.
Never been a parent before, only now I realise that the moment you know your wife is pregnant, the worrying will never stop till the day you breath your last breathe. Am I too ironic? I believe not. You fear about the safety of your pregnant wife, the little foetus inside during the pregnancy period. During labour, you fear about how the baby will come out. Once the baby is out, you fear that he/she will hurt him/herself, the same things go on when they attend school, start to work, start to have partners, start to plan to get married, start to plan to have their own children and so on. The worrying will never stop. Parents... That's what parents are...
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