Pregnancy and Mother Hood Essay

For my narrative/descriptive essay I chose to write about becoming a mother. There ar positives and negatives about being a teenage mother tho I choose to always look at the good. My son wasnt planned but he isnt a mistake either. I only have one child for the moment but from this experience Im lifelessness debating on having more. This had been one long and ch altogetherenging journey but it was all worth it in the end.Childbirth is a Powerful & Exciting experience all at the same time. The way I found out that I was expecting was a challenge alone. formerly I noticed I was loosing an extensive amout of weight, bewildered and clueless I went to the doctor to get answers. While in the doctors office I had blood work done as well as a pregnancy test. The test came underpin negative as I expected being that I was on birth control. Ring Ring. About thirty minutes later, I received a phone call from the doctors office asking me to postdate back because my pregnancy test changed t o positive. Once I get back to the doctors office, the nurse took a blood sample. Fifteen to thirty minutes passed and then my life changed. It was confirmed that I was two months pregnant. Young and scared, Im presently about to be a teenage mother. I just graduated and was trying to go off to college and within fifteen to thirty minutes that fantasy was taken away.The next seven months were challenging and educational. Over the next seven months, I was going to doctor appointments and gaining more and more weight. The time has now come to meet my beautiful baby boy. I was admitted to the Baptist Memorial Hospital at 500 a.m. on Febuary 14,2011. While at the hospital there is so more going on around you the you sometimes get side tracked on whats really going on and go into a geographical zone of your own. While laying there waiting to see what happens next there is the sound of the nurses feet constantly coming in and out your room along with visitors. Once the contractions r ange to come then the journey to motherhood begins. After dialating to about 7-8 centimeters I then have a choice of getting an epidural. (a drug employ to numb your body from waist down).I had signed up for one but didnt plan on using it. Once the epidural Is minded(p) then most or sometimes all the pain is gone. After I was at about five centimeters my labor stood still. I had the choice of an caesarean delivery or getting an epidual to speed the process up the process. I chose the epidural to keep from being left with a permanent scar. Now is time to start pushing and once I started the beeping of machines, sounds of voices, phones ringing, and all other activity around your is tuned out. All that matters to me now is delivering my healthy baby boy. Three long, entensive push and Braylon lamar jones enters the world. He arrived Febuary 25,2011 744 weighting 6lbs and 6 ozs. During the whole journey through all ups and downs in the end it was all worth it because of my son.