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The head fully emerged.
A strange sensation of pressure shifting.
Rotating.
Then —
One final push.
Everything inside me tightened.
I screamed through it.
And with a sudden wet rush —
Her body slid free.
Silence.
For half a second.
No sound.
No cry.
No immediate movement.
My heart dropped violently.
The room tilted.
My lungs stopped working.
Not again.
No.
My brain flashed instantly to memory.
Cold hospital room.
Still body.
Towel wrapped around tiny limbs.
The unbearable silence after delivery.
The nurse had barely lifted her before —
No cry.
My eyes locked on the tiny body as the midwife lifted her carefully.
She was slick.
Blue-tinged.
Motionless.
