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

baby, tears dripping down my face as I take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and

his arms wrapped around me,

believe he’s here,” I whisper in

believe he’s so mad,”

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

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 wasted compliment.” it’d be

him close and pressing a kiss to

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

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

body is aching, I just feel such rich,

are the

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 out, see if I can heal you

– yeah, the baby needs to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching

the nurse says, grinning at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth went beautifully, no complications, so there’s no harm in wanting

and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse

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

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

not understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing it. “I’m sure it will,” she says

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

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

I

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