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Part 2 the birth of Maya, I am a grandma!!!
Well the day is finally here, Crystal was up and down most of the night, and it is now May 23rd, 1998 and seems we are fixing to have a baby. Crystal woke me early and said she had been hurting all night and asks do I think she needs to go to the hospital. Well, we timed a few contractions and I replied that I didn’t really think so, but she was the one in labor and she would have to tell me when she thought she need to go. Just a little later she said, "Mom we need to go." So off to the hospital we go. Well they checked her and just ended up sending her back home saying they would see us in a few days. She sure didn't like that check up at all! So she lay in the bed at home still in labor most of the day. I knew the pain was getting worse, but she refused to go back, just to be sent back home. Then, after God only knows how many trips in the room I made, I walked in and saw a spot of blood on the bed and said very quickly, "Ok baby, lets go and go now." Well, she replied to me that she needed to go to the bathroom and I replied, "I don't think so!"
We are pulling up at the hospital now and I am trying to get her to the 3rd floor and arguing the whole way just how fast we needed to do this. Of course, I am just the panicked grandmother to be in all their eyes. We got into the room finally to do a check and the nurse replied; "it is coming now!" Well I knew that! J So less than 20 minutes later little "Maya" was born. Now I was never lucky enough to see my own children born in natural child birth, as I had c-sections, but I did have Lamaze to prepare for my first and then the class with Crystal for hers and something just didn't seem right here. I looked at the baby, love at first sight of course, color no longer mattered, but the fluid, it was green, and not like the movie I had watched at all. Of course I double check to make sure we had a little girl like the ultrasound showed and sure enough it was! But that was a little strange too but you know about newborn babies. This was what my mind was saying. Yet my soul felt something else that I just wasn't sure of. I must be tired, I thought.
Well by now all the family is here. The brothers and sisters, we have 5 children and of course her step-dad was their and her dad, well the one that she knew as her dad. That is another story. Boy we can fill a room up fast!
We had Maya about an hour in the room with us and oh what a joy to be a grandmother. Color was no longer an issue and I wondered how it ever was. This is the most beautiful baby in the world, in the whole wide world. How in the world could I have been so color blind?
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