I knew you were nearly there. The ache in your hips, the awkward sway in your waddle, the way you lifted the bump while you stood to get the baby's weight off your back if only for a brief moment. I would do the same. Just walk up behind, cup your bump in my hands and lift it up. You would sigh and place your hands over mind. We would stay like that and rock together forever before I'd drop your womb and let the weight fall back on your poor hips and back. You were so goddamn close to giving birth. The doctor suggested being medically induced after measuring the weight of the baby, but you wanted to go naturally.
At two weeks overdue, you were regretting that decision.
The baby's head had been engaged for a week, your cervix dilated with false contractions you felt all throughout the day, the weight of the heavy child pulled violently at your back. One night you woke up in tears due to the baby kicking at your spine. I thought for sure you'd ask me to pound you into labor right then and there.
And the stairs. God, the stairs. At one and a half weeks past due, I had to help you down to the kitchen. You gasped and rocked your hips, complaining about how the baby was so deep and felt ready to fall out. By the time reached the bottom, there was a wet spot in your pants from the lining in your amniotic sac tearing, the sheer amount of baby and fluid it contained pushed it beyond its limits. Water began to leak from your opening, and you spent the rest of your pregnancy wearing pads that would be full and leaking by the end of the day.
The time finally came when you decided it was too much on your body. I got home from work and found you in bed, great with child and aching to give birth. You were on your hands and knees, looking over your shoulder at my dumbfounded expression in the doorway. I looked between your legs and saw your overripe womb brushing against the mattress, straining with weight of amniotic fluid and our big, overdue baby.
"Please." You said, rolling your hips and wincing at the feeling of the large head in your pelvis, desperate to deliver the baby. "I'm ready."
I slammed into you without question, waiting for this moment for nearly ten months, and didn't stop until I was soaked with water and you were begging to push.
Our 11 lbs. baby was born five hours later on the same bed it was made in.