Personal Narrative: My First Birth

A quick turn on a soccer field led me to the worst experience in my life. A while back in my sophomore year I tore my ACL while I was practicing for my first soccer game of the school year. I made a quick turn without positioning my feet correctly on the ground. I thought that I broke my knee, but I never knew that after that day I would have experienced the worst day a month after on February 15th. The day I had knee surgery.

At the beginning of my sophomore year, August 2015, I fractured my left ankle. My second season of cross country had just begun. The whole team had a Saturday practice at Atlanta Memorial Park. We came to this park for a time trial. Not being able to run was going to be a challenge for me. I loved running, and seeing myself not run was going to be hard for me.

Imagine giving birth to your child, but don’t get the chance to meet your baby for several days because she needs immediate attention because she cannot breathe on her own.

It was a hot summer night in June. I was in Atlanta working when my wife called and stated, “Hubby, I’m heading to the hospital”. My wife due date was July 4 but when she called me in June my entire body got numb. I was nervous and excited all in one breathe. I remember calling my supervisor, telling

In that same moment, I knew something was wrong. My baby wasn’t making any noises and her color looked wrong. Within minutes, she was rushed away to the Neonatal ICU. The umbilical cord had been wrapped around her neck causing loss of oxygen to her organs. She spent two long weeks in the Neonatal ICU. During that time, I was unable to hold my baby. She was fed through a tube until her stomach could handle formula through a bottle. That was one of the hardest things I have even been through. Thankfully, she recovered swiftly. We were able to finally go home and start our new life together.

another 12 hours on the nose to have this long awaited baby. The family started

Later that morning, we arrived at Gordmans and paced through the store looking for bargains. I tried to shop, but was too distracted. Finding a chair, I sat and hoped my mom was doing okay. Finally my dad called and told Joy that my mom was rushed to the emergency room for a C-section. An overwhelming sense of panic ran through my body. I became

My nerves were racing in my stomach to no end. I’m wondering if everything is ok? Will everything be as I planned? I couldn 't stop thinking what might happen. Thoughts were running wild as I thought about my team going on to play without me. I couldn 't figure out why I had to let the team handle the game without me. I had played with them all season and some for a few previous years and when they needed me the most, all I was able to do was watch from a TV. I hated the feeling of helplessness that I had, but at the same time I knew there was nothing I could do about it.

My 6- word memoir is a way of explaining the difficult time me, and my baby girl went through. On December 19 of 2013 I went into labor that morning to have a C-section. Everything went through so well until after they took my baby to put her in the NICU. Which is the neonatal intensive care unit. I did not know this would be so hard to deal with, but it was. With tears in my eyes I kept questioning god why this had to be happening to me. The doctors explained to me that my baby got sick from being in my stomach so long after my water broke. I did not want to be away from her, every morning my trips to the NICU were the hardest. Seeing her with tubes, and all the stuff made me upset. But holding her was the most amazing feeling in the world.

You’ll never believe what happened…here’s a little backstory. I am a huge Dallas Cowboys fan from birth and I have always wanted to go to one of their games, but there would never be enough time, even if we were playing the New York Giants…. I was walking to class and because I was already late, the hallway was empty. I saw two of my favorite football players Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott from the Dallas Cowboys. They were inviting me to their home game and I would have to go with them and miss class or miss the game entirely and go to class. I thought about what we were doing in class that day and I was more for the game than I was for class, sorry; no offense to the class but I would have never thought that I would be able to go to the game. Plus, I would get field side access, free food, and a chance to even participate in the game.

I thought it would be interesting to analyze my own delivery story. My mother had a very unique pregnancy. I’ve had the amazing privilege of being a paternal twin. I have a twin brother, Carlos Castellano. After a month into finding out she was pregnant, she started to feel a pain on her right side. She decided to visit the doctor immediately. They told her she was most likely having a miscarriage. She became very saddened with the news. The doctor came in and told her she was going to do an internal ultrasound to confirm that she was having a miscarriage. When the doctor began doing the ultrasound she found something very interesting. On the monitor my mom saw movement on one end, and movement on the other end. The doctor told my mother, “Frances, those are heartbeats!” She told her, “You are having twins”. She was shocked and couldn’t believe it. The doctor told her the pain on her side was due to growing pains, her uterus had two babies and it was starting to

On September 8, 2008 I arrived to the hospital at six o 'clock in the morning to get induced to have my first daughter due to a blood clot I had in my leg. The nurses first told me to change into a gown. Shortly after they hooked me up to the monitors to hear the baby moving all around. Also to track her cute little heartbeat. Another one was to monitor my contraction and watch them on the screen. After I was hooked up, the lad came in and took a bunch of blood. They did that in case I needed a blood transfusion. While they were taking my blood they also hooked me up to the IV and started giving me fluids. Hours went past the house five CM dilated. I was in so much pain! It felt like lightning was shocking me for my hips down to my feet! I then

In a confusion of what was happening. The nurse notices me waking up and calls in the doctors to break the news to me.

Then i went to the office and called my mom to pick me up. My mom told me to rest and that we 'll go to the doctors tomorrow. So did what she told me and i went to sleep. The next day i went to the hospital. I told them the story and they laughed.

With the movie being done and home in bed the sharp pain shot through my wife lower back. I have never seen her in this much pain before and it was a very scary moment. Right away i knew that this was it, the beginning of a long night and the beginning of a new chapter in life. Some time passed that felt like hours but was only minutes and the pain increasing we decided to go to the hospital. The whole drive there the pain shot through my wives back as if she was being stabbed and my heart ached for her. We were admitted immediately and brought to her delivery room, the room was very dark and cold, the air conditioning was so high that my wife could almost ignore her pain because it was so cold in the room. Time drug on, the epidural was given so the pain was kept at bay for a short time, and we all were able to get a little