Personal Narrative: The Wombs Of Their Mothers

I did not realize that giving birth was so costly until now, I gave birth with a C-section and I was not charged for anything and I had a different insurance. Normally in New York, when you go to your first visit to the hospital and you don't have insurance they make you apply for one and it cover all the costs depending on the insurance. I stayed in the hospital five days and receive a lot of care from the

My name was announced. The silence in the room allowed me to hear the judges’ pens scratch through my concise, four- letter name. With my baggy blue button- down, and all black dress- pants on, I proceeded down the auditorium aisle and onto the stage. Even though the crowd consisted of only around 30 uninterested students who purposefully displayed their lack of care, I still felt a pressing audience. Turning to my public- speaking teacher, I acknowledged the “you-may-begin” nod and turned back to the crowd, realizing what I had gotten myself into.

There were many emotions that I experienced throughout the time that I had the baby. One among many was not anger but almost a despise of the fake baby. I did not think that taking the baby would be really as bad as it was, this being in the way that I was so strung out over this tiny machine making noise and others making a big deal out of it just adding to the stress. Also there were several points in this time that between my tiredness and my anger I was having mental collapses, crying, panicking, anxiety, these were things like me waiting for the baby to cry and then when it wouldn stop I would have to hold myself back or I felt like I was about to snap.

When I was young I did not know where babies came from, just like the rest of us. I use to believe everything my parents told me about babies for example that they came from storks or that you bought them at a baby store. It wasn’t until I was about 12 or 13 when I found out the truth on the biggest mystery I had, the truth about where babies really came from.

Let me tell you, leaving a baby gate open when there is a toddler in the house is not a good idea. Somehow, someway, a toddler falling down stairs can turn out good in the long run. I know that makes like zero sense but, it will all come together.

My one true goal in life was always to be a mother. I was thirty years old and had underwent over four surgeries on my female organs. I had finally given up hope that I may ever get pregnant and it not ultimately end in a miscarriage.

I must have winced, because she let my hands go and sat beside me. She pulled her blue hood down, exposing her now tousled hair. I opened my mouth to speak, but she placed a finger to my lips, silencing me. She slid her arm in between the cushions of the sofa and my back, and let her forearm hang loosely over my shoulder.

I decided to discuss the second trimester stage of development because for me, with both of my pregnancies, that is when I started to get really excited about having a baby. There is the whole scare of losing the baby in the first trimester but also that’s when I started to feel the baby move, both times in the 16th week, when the baby, and myself, grew the most (I gained 8 pounds in the 5th month with both pregnancies), and when I got so heavy I had to walk instead of run, it was actually faster from about 18 weeks on. Babycenter.com says that the fetus of 14 weeks of age is the size of a lemon, 3 ½ inches long and weighing 1 ½ ounces, while parents.com says it’s the same weight and length but the size of a peach. At 27 weeks both sites said the babies are at 2+ pounds, 9.25-14 inches long and either the size of a head of cauliflower or a sock monkey (which wasn’t fun to look at when your trying to picture a cute little baby). On page 96 of the textbook in Figure 5.8 it is confirmed that after the 16th week the mother may start to feel the baby move. The fetus is also forming small hairs all over the body, including the scalp, and the lungs are beginning to

Peter Slipper was texting a colleague and included many innuendos and slurs about women. The colleague later decided to sue him for sexual harassment, which he then resigned. This then triggered a debate between Mrs. Gillard and conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott. Mrs. Gillard spoke out and said "The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well, I hope the leader of the opposition is writing out his resignation because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he needs a mirror". An article on the Guardian explains “The prime minister said she had been offended when Abbott had stood in front of placards at political rallies that

Mom had a large lump, the size of a grapefruit, on the rear of her neck. She saw four doctors who all refused to operate. They feared she would be left paralyzed from spine damage. The fifth doctor, Dr. J.D. Fuller, agreed to remove the mass. The lump had grown larger. Mom had pains in her neck and arms like lightning bolts. Dr. Fuller stated his only way to remove the mass was by “blunted excision.” He made a long incision, reached into her neck, grabbed the mass, twisted, and pulled it out of her. The surgeon ripped muscle from her left breast to her spine and left trapezoid muscle. Mom was left with damaged nerves and muscles, but she was not paralyzed.

As I approach the house, looking out the bay window is Baby Girl E, she has that look in her eyes of “who is this?” I smile and wave to her, I can tell she has her mind connecting me to a different place and it is not her home. Mommy J answers the door and says to Baby Girl E. “Look who is here, Miss Annette!” Baby Girl E is being shy. Mommy J and I catch up with everything and start the interview as Baby Girl E is reacquainting herself with me.

Lying in bed on a boring Sunday watching YouTube on my iPod, then mom texts me

Damien was the first woman I had ever been with. I state that first and foremost for the sake of making it clear that she was the first woman. We met at The Teardrop nightclub, a pretty modest gay club in downtown Pittsburgh, displaying a giant neon teardrop sign that changes to different colors of the rainbow. I always thought it was a little much. Damien thought it was pretty damn creative. That club is now a wig shop, so they got rid of the varying colored sign of sorrow and replaced it with a basic and boring square sign that says “Jessica’s Wig Shop.” in bold, green, cursive letters. Damien would probably say that’s pretty damn creative too.

There has been several personal circumstances that although not all negative, they have prevented me from making satisfactory academic progress. A year ago, I gave birth to my first child during my pregnancy I had many health complications accompanied by many Dr. visits until I had to have an emergency C – section. My pregnancy was filled with much stress and frustration that geared my focus to not just my health but the health of my son.

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