I don't believe either of us understood why that happened, but we just went with the flow. I believe she was accepting of the situation, because she was just following orders that were beyond her control. She was not showing off, she was just doing what the doctor said, to maintain her health and have a family. She had just gone to the doctor's office in the morning for her weekly checkup. Her doctor was beginning to be concerned about the size of the baby since it was late and my wife's ability to deliver vaginally.
As it turned out, there was no need to worry, and our first son delivered two weeks later at over ten pounds. However, on the day that fostered this story, he wanted to send my wife to the hospital for some x-rays to determine if her hips could accommodate a normal delivery. My wife called me at work, and asked if I would go with her to the hospital. I was concerned about her, and left work right then.
When we arrived at the hospital, we were directed to the x-ray dept and asked to sit in a little waiting area. After waiting about 15 minutes, the female technician came and took my wife to an x-ray room that was just off of the main hallway. The female technician asked me to stay in the waiting area during the procedure.
I then waited, people watching, both as they went down the hallway, and those patients who were wheeled around in wheel chairs and on gurneys, waiting for their x-rays to be taken. I remember two men who were placed sort of across from the room my wife was in who were waiting themselves for x-rays. About 15 minutes after she left for the procedure, I remember the men watching across the hall very closely, and people walking down the hallway glancing toward the room she was in, but nothing registered with me at that time.
After waiting about 30 minutes, I got up and walked to the room my wife was in. The door was open, and no one was around. She was lying on the x-ray table with her feet closest to the doorway. She had on a hospital gown, and was waiting for the x-ray technician to return and let her know the x-rays were clear enough to be read. I could tell she was a little up tight, and attributed this to the concern that she may not be able to deliver normally. I asked her if she was ok, and she said yes, but that she was very uncomfortable there and wanted to leave.
She just said that she wanted to get dressed and go home. We talked and the technician who had done the x-rays came back in a little while, saying everything was clear enough to be read, and that she could go. I helped her off the table, tied her gown with the only tie in the back at the top, and enjoyed the view of my pregnant wife, in her hospital gown that was short and open in the back. I saw that she was completely naked underneath. She went into a small room, closed the curtain and put her clothes back on.
We went home, and on the way, she told me she had never been that embarrassed in her life and that she was sure I would want to hear all about it later. This piqued my curiosity, and I tried to get more from her. She just said, LATERβ¦. When we got home, I again asked what had happened. She told me to go and get undressed and wait for her on the bed.
She came in about three minutes later, completely naked, lay down on the bed, kept her feet together, and spread her legs wide for me, and related the following from her experience that afternoon. She started by telling me that the view I had right then, had been seen by probably 25 or 30 people that day. I was shocked, and asked her what she meant.