Our heroine is here

So pretty and fair

We’ll gaze with love

Into eyes as innocent as a dove’s

-PenaciousShewa

It is just 2:30 pm when Wanda rouses from her sleep. The pain she is feeling is excruciating. She holds on to her protruded belly and her back. She cannot even call for help. The pain is like menstrual cramps, but a million times more painful.

Is this what labor feels like? Oh, Lord have mercy.

She closes her eyes and lays still as her whole body is racked by the discomfort she is feeling. After what seems like hours, she is finally relieved. She waits for the contractions to...