Lullabies

"Keep pushing sweetheart you're doing great." The nurse says to her. Megan and I both were getting very impatient for her to just be born. I kept telling Megan that she was doing great, trying to make her feel better and so were the nurses, and we sure hoped it was working. She was starting to push her 6th push and all that resisting ended. She screamed out as loud as I've ever heard. Well, all I could say to her was that she was almost done because the head was now out. After another 4 pushes, she was almost out. Geez, 10 pushes and she isn't out? How long does this stuff take? I really am not experienced with this obviously. I was almost crying in pain from Megan squeezing my hand each push. I was trying to act like it didn't hurt much, but I wasn't exactly succeeding. After another 2 pushes, she was out. As soon as she was out, Megan stopped clenching my hand and I instantly was feeling better.

"Yay, you did it! She's out!" The nurse yells excitedly. "You did such a good job!" Just then, I started to hear her cry, and I got extremely happy. As soon as I saw her, I was hit with this feeling of love that I've never experienced before. She was my daughter, and I was going to do everything to keep her safe. I noticed that Megan was crying, which were obviously happy tears, and then I realized that I was crying. So much for being a man. This was a surreal moment for me. I then decided to help the nurses clean her up because they had asked me to help. After they didn't need my help anymore I walked over to Megan, looked at her, bent down and kissed her a couple times. The nurses then brought over the baby and hander her to Megan. She was the most beautiful baby I had ever seen. How could I sit there and tell myself that having a baby was going to be hell 9 months ago? This was one of the best moments of my life. After a few minutes of watching her rest peacefully, Megan then realized that she was in such a wreck from the labor that she forgot to call her mom. Ah well. We decided that she would be one of the first people to see her first. Megan than gave me the baby to hold her. I then looked into her eyes, and smiled.

"She's so beautiful." I say crying. She smiled. We're a family now. A family. Just then the nurses ask,

"So, what are you guys naming her?" I hadn't thought once about names. Just then Megan looked at me.

"Do you want to be the one to name her?" She asks me. It was quiet for a minute. Just then a name popped into my head. I looked at Megan and smiled.

"I know her name. Amy. Amy Nicole." She looks at me and smiles. I assume that means she likes it. The nurses then asked what last name we were going by. "Gaskarth." I answer, before anyone got a chance to respond. Amy Nicole Gaskarth. I really liked her name. I couldn't wait for us to get married this summer. Amy was a beautiful girl. They let me stay the rest of our time there. I wasn't going to miss school for it, so my mom was ok with it. I texted everyone as soon as the nurses were out of the room about her being born. That being Jack, Kayla, Zack, Rian, Megan's parents, my parents, just about everyone we knew. They all came by throughout the next day to see her. This was still Saturday, since she had been born early in the morning. Amy was born on Saturday, November 14th, 2005 at 3:17 am after 12 long and seemingly painful pushes. She was 7 pounds, 9 ounces, 14 inches long, and Megan was in labor for 32 hours. I'm sure that felt like forever for her, because it surely did for me. All of the guys, and Kayla enjoyed meeting her and holding her. They all said how beautiful she was and it felt great. Also, it felt right. They let us leave Sunday evening which was perfecting timing so that I could get some sleep before school tomorrow. Megan was able to get tons of sleep once she was out of labor and Amy was born, but she definitely needed more. To my knowledge, she was suffering sleep deprivation. I got to spend the entire weekend in the hospital literally with Megan. Megan, Amy and I that entire weekend. We were a perfect family, hell we are a perfect family.