The Day my Cousin was born - By Celina Wright aged 7yrs, 11
months and 3 weeks.
On the 25th of October me, Mum & Shaun had to get up at 1
o’clock in the morning because Aunty Erin was having her baby. We had to
come because my Mum is her midwife and my Dad was on school camp with my
brother Dylan so he couldn’t look after us and neither could my Gran
because she was helping Aunty Erin too.
My Aunty lives in Tirau. It took us one hour to get there and when we
got there we went to sleep. When I woke up I went down the hallway and I
saw Aunty Erin in the lounge. I thought Mum had forgotten to wake us up
when the baby was born but then I realised that the baby wasn’t born yet
so I went into the kitchen instead and Uncle Kyle cooked us breakfast.
We went and sat at the table and waited. I could see Aunty Erin trying
to get the baby out. The breakfast was really yummy because Uncle Kyle
cooked us hot chips, eggs and bacon which we never normally have for
breakfast.
After breakfast I played with my cousins Liam (2) and Daniel (1) and
waited for the baby to be born. Aunty Erin was brave cause that would of
hurt. She had to wait all night and finally in the morning he was born.
When the water broke she screamed more than before. It was noisy. It was
loud. Also scary. Arghhhhhh … I was thinking please tell me this is a
dream. But after the baby was born I wished that I was Aunty Erin. She
had her baby at home just like her other two children and just like when
I was born. When he was born it wasn’t just on the couch or something
like that, it was in a birth pool. After the baby is out of the water it
starts breathing. Once it’s born you can’t put it back under the water
because it could die and that would be very sad.
The new babies name is Jayden. When he was born the colour of his skin
was pink and he had lots of white stuff on him. Before we went home I
got to have a hold of him and he was cuddly.
When I am older I want to have a baby and I want to have it at my own
house.
The End
