09-16-2018, 06:58 PM
For once, emergency medical services didn't take ages to arrive, and soon Caleb and Zach were on their way to the hospital. Caleb was reluctant to be laid on the gurney but Zach stayed with him - their hands connect tightly together. The pain in Caleb's stomach continued tightening and releasing - paramedics were speaking rapid-fire medical lingo back and forth between themselves and dispatch but words were currently flying right over Caleb's head.
It wasn't until the ambulance stopped completely and that Zach and he were being escorted inside of the hospital, did the real pain start setting in. He curled up around stomach and screamed into the gurney, rocking back and forth - it felt like every bone in his body was being broken and he could hardly breathe, going slightly blue in the face.
A doctor and several nurses rushed to the gurney, rapid-fire words yet again leaving the medical staff's mouth as they took Caleb's gurney from the paramedics and rushed it into an exam room. The on-call doctor had already paged their obstetrics expert and he - an older gentlemen with kind eyes and a warm smile - stepped into the room to look Caleb over. Ultrasounds were done, fetal monitoring, and even blood draws - all done in a matter of moments.
The doctor looked at the two expectant parents and sighed "Well... I was able to stop the contractions. You went into early labor, far too soon for any doctor's liking." He said rather monotonously, as if there was more, and he just didn't want too or could not say what the problem was "We've got you on a IV drip for now to put an end to this labor, but... there's no telling that, once we take you off of the medication, your labor won't start up again."
Not even an introduction was made before the obstetrics doctor was once again leaving the room, giving orders to a nurse he passed by to 'keep an eye on the pregnant man' -- It was clear that this doctor was against male-on-male pregnancies, and while the hate-crimes had gotten a lot tougher in recent years, there were still people who just did not like the fact that men, too, could get pregnant.
It wasn't until the ambulance stopped completely and that Zach and he were being escorted inside of the hospital, did the real pain start setting in. He curled up around stomach and screamed into the gurney, rocking back and forth - it felt like every bone in his body was being broken and he could hardly breathe, going slightly blue in the face.
A doctor and several nurses rushed to the gurney, rapid-fire words yet again leaving the medical staff's mouth as they took Caleb's gurney from the paramedics and rushed it into an exam room. The on-call doctor had already paged their obstetrics expert and he - an older gentlemen with kind eyes and a warm smile - stepped into the room to look Caleb over. Ultrasounds were done, fetal monitoring, and even blood draws - all done in a matter of moments.
The doctor looked at the two expectant parents and sighed "Well... I was able to stop the contractions. You went into early labor, far too soon for any doctor's liking." He said rather monotonously, as if there was more, and he just didn't want too or could not say what the problem was "We've got you on a IV drip for now to put an end to this labor, but... there's no telling that, once we take you off of the medication, your labor won't start up again."
Not even an introduction was made before the obstetrics doctor was once again leaving the room, giving orders to a nurse he passed by to 'keep an eye on the pregnant man' -- It was clear that this doctor was against male-on-male pregnancies, and while the hate-crimes had gotten a lot tougher in recent years, there were still people who just did not like the fact that men, too, could get pregnant.
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