The Scariest Moment of My Life

My Daughter as a Newborn

This is a Beyond the Books writing prompt.

The scariest moment of my life happened during labor. I had been in labor for about 18 hours and at this point I was so exhausted that I was falling asleep between contractions. Mr. Awesome was faithfully holding my hand through each of them and describing the monitor I couldn’t see, telling me when the current contraction would end. My doctor was in residency, so she and the head doctor who was monitoring her were coming in...