Bandit Baby - S01 E03

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Bandit Baby - S01 E03

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 3

Immediately the water broke, I knew I was in for a long ride.

“My God! My God! My water has broken. My water has broken,” she cried out in shock.

“I want you to be calm. I know you’re strong. You’ll pull this through,” I consoled her.

“Bro what will I do? Jesus help me. Oh my God!” she said amidst tears as she began to undress.

I stood there thinking of what I would do.

I checked my time and it was 8:27pm.

I helped her to sit.

I was deeply afraid because we both were naive.

She wore a legging and a long free gown.

She took off her legging and I switched off my torch.

“You don’t have to off the torch, we will need the light,” she said.

I switched on the torch again.

She collected the light and examined herself.

I was visibly shaking.

I was sweating too.

“I don’t even know your name. What is your name?” she asked in a very calm voice.

“Ezekiel”, I answered with a trembling voice.

“Ezekiel I want you to listen. I can see you are scared, and to be honest, I am scared too. It’s late in the night and we are kilometers away from people. It’s just you and I. If my life and those of my babies matter to you, then you must do whatever you can to help us. My babies must live. I must live. You will help me deliver. There is this burning sensation I have, and I am sure real labor will start soon. I want you to promise me you won’t leave me here no matter what.”

“I promise.”

She held my hands and shaded tears.

“Take my legging. This is what you will use to clean the babies. You will use your shirt to wrap the babies.”

I collected her legging and spread it on the rock.

I took off my shirt and spread it there too. I was just obeying every single word from her mouth as if the commands were from the army men.

“But you said they will be 2. My shirt will not contain both of them. What will we do?”

Then a thought struck me. There and then, I reduced her long free gown to short free gown.

“Ezekiel,” she continued as I tore the gown, “there will be blood, plenty of it. Don’t be scared. I believe it won’t take long and it will be over. Just pray for me.”

I held her hands immediately and began to pray.

Mid way the prayer, she began to shout.

“Oooooooooooh no! Jeeeeeeeeesuuuuuuuus! Jesus help me. Help me please.”

She began to pant again.

I held her head.

“Leave my head.”

“Tell me what to do please. Tell me what to do,” I pleaded.

“Come over here,”

“Come over where? I asked panicking.

“Aaaaaaaah! My waist! My waist! My waist oooooo!”

I held her waist.

“Leave me alone. I didn’t say you should hold my waist. Take the light. Come and look if you will the head.”

“What?” I asked with shock.

“I said you should look if…. aaaaaaaaaaaah! Hush! Hush! Hush! OK. OK. OK. OK. I will not shout. Yes, I am strong. Hush. Hush.”

She was restless.

She was panting.

She was in pain.

I began to wonder if all mothers go through the same process.

What an excruciating pain!

For about a minute, she saw hell.

Then the pain went away and she began to cry.

She cried, she prayed, she called on her mother, her husband and her God.

“I can’t believe this. I will be 35 weeks pregnant in 4 days. My EDD should have been 5 weeks, 4 days from now. And now look at me in the bush. Look at me in the bush. What type of country is this?”

She began to cry again.

10 minutes later, the pain came again, more severe than the previous. She screamed and screamed and screamed.

“Push. Madam push,” I said standing close to her head, but she kept screaming.

I cried to God in prayer.

Then the pain went away again.

“Eeeehn Madam, I think when the pain comes, that is when the baby is crawling out. Hence, that is when you should push.”

“It’s not yet time my brother. It’s painful. It’s painful.” she kept crying.

It continued like that. As the time went, the pain increased. The pain kept coming and going, coming and going, coming and going.

It was already 2am.

I could not imagine that what started since 8pm could continue till 2am without any sight of the baby.

“I know you’ve been avoiding to look at my private part, but don’t worry, you’re not committing any sin. You will look. But if you keep avoiding to go there, then if anything happens to me or my babies, just know that you intentionally refused to help a helpless woman in labor. I think you will be able to live with that. But if you’re willing to help, I want you to put your hand in there. Let’s see how many fingers can go in.”

Those were powerful words from her.

I hurriedly did as instructed while crying.

” Madam three fingers have entered. Push. You have to start pushing.”

My voice trembled.

“I don’t have the strength to start pushing now. Let me reserve the strength, I’ll need it when the time comes. Now look for what you will use to tie and cut the umbilical cords.”