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A Girl's Birth
#WritcoStoryPrompt33
"It's a girl! "
The doctor gushed, placing the wailing infant on the woman's chest.
She heaved trying to catch her breath in the aftermath of her gruelling labour. Tears of pain mingled briefly with tears of joy before dissolving into tears of sadness.
She had once again given birth to a girl! Her third daughter. What would her husband and in-laws do to her now?...
She breathed heavily, out of pain, but from which one? She knew it. Her home will be wrecked again. In the past 5yrs of marriage, all she gave her husband were 3 daughters. She wanted to cling to the hospital bed forever. The home she was going to go to, can't be called a home. Suddenly, her in-laws rushed into the room. The surprise made her forget about her fear for a while, before making it worse in the next while. "A daughter again?!" the woman she called "mother" said with disgust. "Madam, this is a hospital room and a gir-" the doctor was interrupted with...
"It's a girl! "
The doctor gushed, placing the wailing infant on the woman's chest.
She heaved trying to catch her breath in the aftermath of her gruelling labour. Tears of pain mingled briefly with tears of joy before dissolving into tears of sadness.
She had once again given birth to a girl! Her third daughter. What would her husband and in-laws do to her now?...
She breathed heavily, out of pain, but from which one? She knew it. Her home will be wrecked again. In the past 5yrs of marriage, all she gave her husband were 3 daughters. She wanted to cling to the hospital bed forever. The home she was going to go to, can't be called a home. Suddenly, her in-laws rushed into the room. The surprise made her forget about her fear for a while, before making it worse in the next while. "A daughter again?!" the woman she called "mother" said with disgust. "Madam, this is a hospital room and a gir-" the doctor was interrupted with...
