Empathy Story

The person I interviewed was my mother and she told me the story about when my older brother was born 32 years ago. She had gone through 20 hours of labor and was doing fine with the breathing, when the doctor came in and decided that he wanted to speed things up by breaking her water. When the doctor had broken her water, her labor ended up stopping, so they ended up giving her a drug to restart the labor. My mom ended up going through severe back labor pain at this point, and kept thinking that my brother was facing the wrong way due to the pain. They ended up finding out that she had a tipped tailbone, which caused more pain. My dad throughout this process was holding my mom's hand, and told the doctor that she could continue going through the labor, and that the pain wasn't bad. My mom says my dad doesn't think that she handled the labor well at all and that she makes a bigger deal about then it actually was.  

What I believe my dad's perspective was during all of this is that it was taking too long for him. He wanted the whole labor process to be over with because he was anxious about the blood that will be coming out, because he gets queezy at the sight of blood. When the doctor had decided to break her water, he thought that this would speed things up of course. Instead it dead halted them. When my mom began complaining about back pain, he just began to roll his eyes thinking, it is not that bad. She could never handle the pain that he had gone through being hit in football. All he wanted was for this to be done and over with. So he continued to tell the doctor to keep it moving. My mom was just over exaggerating. 

When talking to my mom, it was funny to hear the story. I could just picture the argument happening in the delivery room, and what my dad was thinking. He hates being in hospitals, and if can find away to avoid them, he will. I found it easier to write from my dad's perspective then my mom. I don't know if it's because our personalities are similar, or because I have never been in labor, so I don't understand what the pain feels like.