Excitement

This week has been my first working as an intern for EMC. During these past days I have met many young women who came into the office because they were pregnant.

Some of them had taken a pregnancy test and wanted to get a sonogram to know how far they were; others had no idea if they were pregnant or not.  Most of these women didn’t know if they wanted to keep the baby, so I was wondering what I could say that would make them choose life. There are many possible answers to this question, and on my third day a couple reminded me one of them.

On Wednesday a women came in. She said she had taken a pregnancy test and it was positive, so she wanted to get a sonogram to make sure. We were talking and I asked her what she wanted to do. She said she had no idea, cause she hadn’t planned it and was a bit in a shock. She said her boyfriend wanted to keep the baby. When she was about to go into the room to get the ultrasound her boyfriend arrived and came in with her.

It was amazing to see the look in his eyes when we started to see the baby in the screen. When he heard the baby’s heartbeat he was absolutely speechless. His eyes were wide open and he started to mumble how amazing it was, wondering how that could be possible.

He looked really excited. That made me see we need to remind people how exciting being a parent is. A baby represents a new life that comes from two different ones. Sometimes we focus on how hard raising a baby and taking care of him, but we should always remember how exciting it is. Even the smallest stuff is amazing about them: their first steps, the way they stare at everything, how they laugh when you make ugly faces…

And that’s what I wanted to say, that no one should miss all the excitement and fun having baby is, no matter how difficult it looks, it always gives back.