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

ounce of him, every tiny

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

he’s here,”

can’t believe he’s so mad,” Roger replies, his voice

mate 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

Roger murmurs, still staring at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and

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

with something that good. He needed

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

body is aching,

the only three people in the world. I almost

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

comes close, reaching for him.

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

as she carries the baby across 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

holding her hands out,

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

understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing it. “I’m sure it will,”

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

time Ella has healed me, of course, but

until I feel

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