Best Mothers Day

Today I will jump ahead quiet a bit and tell you about one of the best days of my life, the birth of my baby girl, my best friend in the world.
When I became pregnant with Erika I was very young. Way to young to have a baby, but when I found out that I was pregnant I was so happy. I couldn't wait to have her. Finally there would be someone in my life that would love me. Someone that I could love in return without fear. My pregnancy was a little hard. My blood pressure became pretty high so I would get very dizzy often and my feet would swell like crazy. I couldn't even put on my tennis shoes. While I was pregnant I ate for two (or three or four) so I gained about 70 pounds. When I was 6 months pregnant I started leaking water from my amniotic sack so I was very concerned about her health I wanted so much for her to be okay.
Finally my due date came, but still no Erika. Another week passed and still no Erika. There I was as fat as a cow impatiently waiting and the child just wouldn't hurry up and get here. So one Saturday I had to go to the hospital to get my blood pressure checked and to have them check the fluid in the amniotic sack to make sure there was still enough water in there for the baby to be okay. They said that my blood pressure was way to high and that they were going to go ahead and induce labor. I was so scared. I could hear ladies in the other rooms screaming and crying. But I couldn't turn back now.
The labor hurt, but not unbearably so. Mostly I just felt that I needed to go to the restroom. The nurse that was taking care of me was allowing me to go to the restroom, but the shifts changed and the new nurse wouldn't let me get up. I kept telling her that I had to go to the restroom and still she wouldn't let me get up and go. Boy was I getting angry! So I thought to myself, if she wont let me get up I will just go to the restroom right on this bed! So I started to and the nurse started telling everyone "She is pushing" and I thought to myself no I am not pushing I am going to the bathroom ;-) but I guess that the nurse knew what she was talking about because a few minutes later my baby girl was in my arms. (For a while we called her my little piece of poop) When I held her I was so overwhelmed by the emotion. Never had another person been this important to me. Never had I felt such deep love that it brought me to tears. I loved that baby girl more than anything in the world. I thought to myself that maybe she was my purpose in life. The reason I was alive was to take care of her. Wow I couldn't believe God had picked me to take care of her. Every day since, her presence in my life has been a blessing. She has brought me many smiles. To many proud moments to count. The day after she was born was Mothers day. She was the greatest Mothers Day present I have ever received.