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Married life was easy and I dearly loved my wife We thought about the next step we would take She brought up having children, and adding to our life We never thought could be a huge mistake :) The sickness started early, no meal would stay down The cramps could make it difficult to walk Her face would be a thundercloud, never even seen her frown Now asking her to dance would make her baulk The end of the first trimester, time to go and see the Doc She said the Ultrasound's more painful than a birth Of course she had never had a baby, okay for her to mock The main thing that concerned her was her girth As time went on I noticed that she stood up very straight Maybe even sort of was bent back When we were going somewhere, we were mostly late I think we were regarded as quite slack Then from out of nowhere, there is water running down Started as a trickle then a flood For Pete's sake get the car out, it is time to go to town She waited on the grass, it turned to mud I charged into the hospital, but left her in the car I could feel the panic start to reign Just fill out these forms young man, you are not the star Then go back out to your car again I went back out to get her, I took a chair with wheels By now it was a job to get her in I tried to reassure her, you look better that it feels I got a dirty look, there was no grin She's lying in the bed and has me in a grip of death The look could sure transform me into stone As if the cause was down to me, and with her dying breath She would completely tear my heart out with a moan Nurse says, " the little one is coming, I can see the head" Won't be too long now and all is done I didn't hear a single word, passed out on another bed From simple plans, the Complications come
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