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.

against my arm-his little head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so

take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and crying

arms wrapped around me,

he’s here,” I whisper in

believe he’s so mad,”

know, Roger,” I

Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression

baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his forehead.

sighs. “I couldn’t have come up with something that good. He needed you for

he’s got me,” I sigh. “My whole heart, forever, little

my whole body is aching, I just

more minutes where it feels like Roger and the baby and I are the only three people in the world. I almost jump in surprise

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 blanket? And I’ll check you

needs to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close,

at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth

baby across the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is

me and holding her hands out,

sigh, placing my hands on top of hers and laughing a little. “I’m sure your next one will be perfectly

wide eyes, and I turn my head to the side, not understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing it. “I’m sure it will,” she

who usually asks that?” I murmur in reply, leaning my head

of course, but this is the most conscious

until I feel completely

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