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.

elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new and yet so completely

baby, tears dripping down my face as I take in every ounce of him, every tiny

side, his arms wrapped around me, staring down

can’t believe he’s here,”

can’t believe he’s so mad,”

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 say

an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt

pressing

Roger sighs. “I couldn’t have come up with something that good. He

sigh.

my whole body is aching,

I are the only three people in the world. I almost jump in surprise when I feel

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

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 you

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

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

murmurs, sitting down next to me and holding her hands out, palm up. “I basically bled out after my traumatic pregnancy, and you get away

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

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 says with a happy sigh. “Now,

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

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

I feel completely

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