I gave birth 35 years ago this day. That entire deal ? Stunning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCW3P19t3tg#t=45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCW3P19t3tg#t=45
Two other, very, very wee kiddos of mine, only 13 months old
and 37 months old at the time on this date, needed to be looked after when,
alone with only them beside me, I went in to labor with my and my belly’s third
baby boy --- then grown by me to bulldozing – maturity.
I telephoned my daddy.
His line was busy. I tried again;
the line was still busy. This was 1979,
around noontime: lunch time for the two
with the weer one longingly and so, so sorrowfully stating in to my eyes, “Mommy,
I hungry.” At this plaintive plea of
Jacob Thomas’ his two tiny hands gripping both of my kneecaps, I recall, at
that time of the next pain, thinking how many women everywhere every hour
registered in their ears and up in to their brains this same mewling: the World over, “Mommy, I hungry.”
Contractions were five minutes apart; membranes intact, but
I was allegedly exactly three weeks past Dr Hesse’s oft – stated ‘due’ date so
this was it: the real deal. O, and my father by the back road, the one that
led right in to the university housing complex’s parking lot, was over 30 miles
away. At least and fortunately, the
blacktop wasn’t iced over; it was September in Iowa, not February. Again, Daddy's telephone line was still busy.
I pressed the ‘ 0 ‘ on my telephone’s pad; and when an
actual voice came back in to my ear, stated to it thus, “I don’t know if this
is an emergency enough, ya’ know, enough of a reason to try to break in to my daddy’s
line, Operator, I truly don’t. I am
having labor pains every five minutes; I’m overdue, ‘nd it’s my third baby, and
aaah, ah, well, my daddy needs to come to look after my other two little
ones. No one else is here. He has to come, well, quite a ways
actually. Um, it’s over a 30 – mile drive
at least. Do ya’ think … … ? ”
“HELL YES, Woman ! Now ! I’ll do THAT right now ! What’s his phone number ? Now !
And you, you Woman, call your doctor right away. Do it now.
Hang up and do it now ! I am
breaking in to your father’s conversation right now. I’ll get ‘im there. Call your doctor. ”
Willard Albert William Maas
drove, I know he did around that blacktop’s four S – curves and the rest of its
length upwards the entire stretch of mileage at over 90 miles per hour,
screamed his “baby” – blue Seville to a halt into the lot’s parking space at nearly
a 45 – degree, askewed angle; and we three watched Daddy on those O – so spindly
tibial pins of his and with that already thrice – attacked ( at least once by
that poliomyelitis virus of 1939 through 1941 ) heart – muscle actually .run.
himself over to our itty – bitty apartment’s front door.
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