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 close to me,

stare down at my little baby, tears dripping down my face as I take in every ounce of him, every tiny finger and toe, his wide and crying mouth with its perfect

side, his arms wrapped around me, staring

believe he’s here,” I whisper in complete

he’s so mad,”

my tears, grateful that his strange sense of humor has at least stopped my crying. “You know, Roger,”

the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe. “I doubt he’d even hear me wasted

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

have come up with something that good. He needed you for

got me,” I sigh. “My whole heart,

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

the baby and I are the only three people in the world. I almost jump

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

nurse comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,” I say, shaking my head.

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

nurse as she carries the baby across the room to be weighed and checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right – everything went

to me and holding her hands out, palm up. “I basically bled out after my traumatic pregnancy, and you get

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

But then she just grins and shakes her head, dismissing it.

leaning my head on Roger’s shoulder, starting to feel my exhaustion now more

eyes, starting to call upon her gift. I 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 this is the most conscious I’ve been for it and I can really feel it this time – the

until I feel

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