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.

the weight of him against my arm-his little head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new and yet so

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

tight to my side, his arms wrapped around me, staring

he’s here,” I

so mad,” Roger replies,

that his strange sense of humor has at least stopped my crying. “You know, Roger,” I say quietly, “most new parents

lot of noise, Cora,” Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear

I murmur to the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Welcome

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

got me,” I sigh.

though I’m exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just

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

her. “What do you think, Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you

as the nurse comes close, reaching for

didn’t,” the nurse says, grinning at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth

the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right – everything went well, and the baby looked fine to me. I don’t anticipate any

hands out, palm up. “I

Ells,” I sigh, placing my hands on top of 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 her head, dismissing it.

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

it when it starts to sweep through me, and I sit up a little with curiosity. This isn’t the first time Ella has healed me, of course, but

I

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