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Amethyst
Two months later
“Areyou ready to see your baby?”
I was lying down on the examination table and had my eyes closed, but at the midwife’s question, I opened them.
“Yes,” I said, my voice coming out low, my nerves making me tremble.
The midwife turned the screen to face me, and then rubbed the wand across my stomach.
“Everything looks good,” she said as she looked at the screen. “Development is exactly where it should be.”
Relief hit me, and I let out a hard exhale.
I hadn’t been able to get the care that I would have wanted before. I’d been too nervous to do risk it, so I’d held off. But as I approached the end of the first trimester, I’d felt compelled to go get checked out. And I was so glad that I had.
“Are you sure?” I asked, looking at the screen. I could see the familiar shape of the baby and see the flash for the heartbeat, but otherwise didn’t have any idea what I was looking at.
“Yes. The heartbeat is strong.” She pointed at the screen, and I continued to stare at the little flicker.
“You can see the bones and spine. There’s the brain,” she said, pointing at different parts of the screen.
“It looks like all of your blood tests came back normal. As of now, you have a perfectly healthy baby.”
I relaxed, smiled, felt tears gather in my eyes.
“Do you want to know what you’re having?” she asked.
I considered for a moment, but then shook my head. “I…I think I’ll wait.”
“Let me move this, then. Sometimes, babies like to give it away themselves,” she said.
I laughed as she twisted the screen out of view.
“I just want check a couple more things. Kidneys and liver look good too.”
She lifted the wand, and wiped my stomach.
“You can pull your shirt down,” she said.
I did, then sat up.
“You’ve got to take it a little bit easy as you get further along,” she said. “When you stand, try to come to a full sitting position, then lower one leg to the floor, then other. That might help cut off any dizziness.”
I did as she said, and sat on the edge of the table.
“Have you been having any dizziness?”
I shook my head. “Not too much. I’m trying to stay hydrated,” I said.
“Good. That’s very important. Do you work outside of your home?”
“Yeah. Temp work. Warehouses and whatnot,” I said.
The midwife’s face took on an empathetic expression.
