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.

head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new and

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

his arms wrapped around me, staring down

believe he’s here,”

he’s so mad,” Roger replies, his voice

“You know, Roger,” I say quietly, “most new parents say something nice about their kid when they meet him for the first time, like how beautiful he is, or how much they

Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between

to the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Welcome to the world. You are very,

with something that good. He needed you for

me,” I sigh. “My whole

body is aching, I

the only three people in the world.

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

comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,” I say, shaking my head. “I didn’t mean to yell at you earlier

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

weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right – everything went well, and the baby

and holding her hands out, palm

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,”

reply, leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder, starting

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 can really feel it this time – the

I feel

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