I combed my finger through her hair as she slept on my chest, my other hand held the tab up.
"Shit! What the fuck?" I whispered as the baby's head popped out of the woman's vagina. My heart soon began to race in fear for Aduke.
We had been doing our research and we had registered for parenting classes for when we got back home but I had done my own research.
Women died during labor and I didn't want that to happen to her. Women went through a lot of things during and after labor. I didn't want that for her.
For us.
I had read stories of women who murdered their own babies. They called it baby blues or something. Most of the women said they couldn't help it. They didn't want to but they couldn't stop hearing the cries of their babies in their heads.
I didn't want that.
The baby began to cry with blood all over his face while the mother began to scream, breathing heavily. She pushed a few more times and an entire baby popped out with a long placenta.