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

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

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

here,” I whisper in complete

so mad,” Roger replies,

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 say something nice about their kid when they meet

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

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

come up with something that good. He needed

got me,” I sigh. “My whole heart,

body is aching, I just feel such rich, complete happiness

baby and I are the only three people in the world. I almost jump in surprise when I feel Ella’s hand on my

tears of joy when I look up at her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you

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 you

baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and

she carries the baby across the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the

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

hers and laughing a little. “I’m sure

flinches a little, looking up at me with wide eyes, and I turn my head to the side, not understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes

reply, leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder,

course, but this is the most conscious I’ve been for it and I

until I feel completely

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