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.

heart just breaks to feel him close to me,

take in every ounce of

tight to my side, his arms wrapped around me, staring down

here,” I

believe he’s so 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

a lot of noise, Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear me

I murmur to the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Welcome to

with something that good. He needed you

he’s got me,” I sigh.

exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just feel such rich, complete

few more minutes where it feels like Roger and the baby and I are the only

look up at her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him

say, suddenly remembering that – yeah, the baby needs to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,” I say, shaking my head. “I didn’t mean to yell at

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

weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right

her hands out, palm up. “I basically bled out after

hers and laughing a

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

usually asks that?” I murmur in reply, leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder, starting to feel my exhaustion now

but

until I

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