Pregnant with twins!
“Open your legs, Miss.” These words fell onto her ears and she was flabbergast for a moment. She stopped gazing out of that big glassy window.
“Prepare yourself, doctor is coming right now.” Nurse added while adjusting the patient’s loose clothes.
Anastasia blinked her iridescent almond eyes and saw that the doctor had already arrived in the cabin. The troubled and hesitating look on her face was extended to see the doctor.
“Doctor...I...” the words keep rolling in her mouth as if they are hurdled by some barrier. Does she really want to stop this sin? She caressed her stomach with a puzzled and confused heart.
“The hospital atmosphere is really making me sick.” She thought to herself while looking around. She was blaming the hospital for her restlessness.
Anastasia Bell, a nineteen year old beautiful girl who has lost both her parents in childhood has already suffered so much in her life. Now she has got herself into the most difficult situation which led her to come to this hospital.
To distract herself from the sin she was doing, she started glancing at the view outside. The big, glassy window from which one can see the entire scenery of the road.
“Nurse..arrange the equipment. We need to send her to the maternity room.” That was a heartbreaking voice for her.
It was the month of September. The trees were shedding their leaves. The autumn wind was blowing faster. The road seems clear. A small child was walking with his mother. The child held her hand tightly as if he did not want to leave her mother. His face looked happy and the woman holding her appeared satisfied.
Anastasia is still a teen to understand all these things. The love of a mother was unknown to her. Anastasia was watching everything with her confused eyes.
“Miss Anastasia, do you want to abort your child? You are eleven weeks pregnant. That will create many complications in future. It's possible that you will not be able to be a mom again.” Doctor asked Anastasia with a polite tone. It was more like any warning. She knew that patients could be under tremendous pressure in such times. Especially when the patient is unmarried. But still, as a doctor, she has to ask her.
Anastasia was under extreme guilt. She even tried some abortion pills and many things that will cause easy painless abortion to her but when she didn't find any bloodstain in her underpants, she understood that she cannot abort this child on her own. She needs to take out this child surgically.
In the morning when she was waiting for the doctor, she read many columns in a hospital magazine about how a child is killed in the womb and then removed using suction. That almost created confusion in her mind. But she knew that she alone cannot take responsibility for them.
“Yes doctor, I want abortion, I don't think I can keep this child anymore.” she said with an upset face. She didn't know why her heart became so heavy while saying those words. But now she has already decided that she is not going to have them.
It was not like she didn't like children. This decision of her need courage. But she herself didn't know who was the father of her child. Even if she wants to search for him, she doesn't even remember his face. She didn't know whether she was r***d or taken by her own wish.
The doctor shook her head and took Anastasia to the maternity ward. Anastasia was watching this all with her widened eyes. This was all new for her. She didn't even visit this ward because there was no use for her. Her eyes were rolling and watching the pictures of the baby hanging on the wall. She started to imagine them as her child. Their smile was so pretty that it could make anyone’s life joyful.
“Miss Anastasia, I need to check the position of your child so that It would be easier to take them out.” the doctor said to her with an assured look. Anastasia pulled her t-shirt up and pulled her pants a little down to allow the doctor to check the position of her child correctly.
Anastasia’s stretcher was just beside that LED screen. She could easily see some blank screen with few written words. The probe was already kept aside onto the side table with a suction pump. Anastasia’s heartbeat raised when she saw that suction pump. It was exactly similar to what she saw in that magazine. Her heart became tremendously heavy and guilt aroused into her mind.
The doctor applied some gel onto the probe and started rubbing that probe on her stomach. That black screen changed into a gray one and something white things started appearing to it.
Anastasia was watching everything with tapering her eyes. It was all something unusual for her. She was trying to understand what was that.
“Nurse, bring two suction pumps. I think it is not as simple as I think.” Doctor ordered her nurse. Nurse shook her head and immediately went to follow the orders of the doctor. Anastasia was surprised to hear this. Two suction pumps? But why?
“Doctor, what happened?” She asked with an upset face.
“You are pregnant with twins. You have one boy and one girl child. Do you still want to abort them?” Doctor’s expressions were neutral.
Anastasia’s eyes scattered after listening to it. It was more like the floor had slipped from her feet. She did not have a single child in her womb but they were twins. How could God be so cruel to her? She turned her head to the led screen.
“Here is your first child…” the doctor pointed towards the screen. “And this is another one. This is such a rare condition. Only one in a million women get such a pregnancy. Do you still want to abort your children?” Doctor asked in a humble tone. Anastasia’s eyes were stuck onto the screen.
The image of a child appeared on the screen and Anastasia’s heart was torn apart. The children were moving and hugging each other. As if they were scared that their mom was going to kill them. They must be crying while hugging each other because they are not allowed to come out to see this beautiful world. Doctor is going to give them an injection just now.
Anastasia’s eyes turned red. She wanted to cry but many things held her. The tears became heavy and started falling down like Pearl of the ocean.
All of a sudden she started crying with heavy sounds. Many nurses came running to the ward when they heard that sound.
“Aahhh…I don’t want to kill you baby. Forgive me…forgive me baby…I didn’t know I was going to make a huge sin. I was pressured to make this decision.” For the first time Anastasia understood the meaning of the word mother.
She never had love of mother but as a mother she understood how much a mother loves their children.
