Cora

“You’ve got this, Cora!” Ella cheers at my side while I squeeze Roger’s hand, panting and shouting as I give what the nurse has told me is one last, final push.

I put everything I have into this final moment, squeezing my eyes shut and pushing as hard as I can, wanting this done – wanting to feel my little baby in my arms

And suddenly the pressure lessens, and my eyes fly open as I gasp And there’s a little baby’s cry ringing out through the room.

“Here!” I gasp, leaning forward fervently, some motherly demand in me needing my little baby now even as I see him in the nurse’s hands. “Give him to me!”

The nurse hesitates, looking towards her colleagues. I moan a little, still reaching, wanting him now

“Do it,” Ella snaps suddenly up from my side. She stands and moves towards the nurse, putting a hang on her shoulder and gesturing towards me. ” He needs his mother – ”

Roger is completely still at my side, his eyes focused totally on the baby, who starts to cry his little heart out.

“Please,” I beg, reaching for him.

“All right,” the nurse says, nodding and bringing him forward. “We’ll clean him up in a minute – ”

And she takes two steps forward, and leans down, and places my little baby in my arms

And I burst immediately into tears.

head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new

face as I take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and crying mouth with

arms wrapped around me, staring down at our

here,” I whisper in

mad,” Roger

my mate and shaking my head at him, sniffing back my tears, grateful that his strange sense of humor has at least stopped my crying. “You know, Roger,” I say quietly, “most new parents

the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear me wasted

him, gorgeous boy,” I murmur to the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his

couldn’t have come up with something that

sigh. “My whole

I’m exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just feel such

Roger and the baby and I are the only three

face is streaked with tears of joy when I look up at her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him in a

I laugh as the nurse comes close,

she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth went beautifully, no complications,

by the doctor. But the nurse

me and holding her hands out, palm up. “I

be jealous, Ells,” I sigh, placing my hands on top of hers and

turn my head to the side, not understanding her reaction. But then she

reply, leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder, starting to feel

gift. I feel it when it starts to sweep through me, and I sit up a little with curiosity. This isn’t the first time Ella has healed me, of course, but this is the most conscious I’ve been for it and

I feel

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