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I was in the master bedroom putting away laundry when I tripped over my own fucking feet. I fell and land on my ass of course to my luck there was nothing within reach to grab on so I could pull my pregnant ass up. I looked at the time and knew that Luke and Anthony would be home around dinner time. Well I guess since it’s close to three now I’ll just have to get comfortable and wait.
I must have dozed off because I wake up with Luke and Anthony staring at me from the door of the bedroom. I try to play off my position on the floor to them as if I had just got down there. When Anthony helps me up I have a shooting pain that doubles me over. Anthony quickly helps me to the bed and gets Luke out of the room. He’s calm, but I bet inside he’s shaking like a leaf.
I hear him on the phone with the emergency operator and she’s instructing him to check and see if I’ve dilated. I’ve told him that I don’t think I’m having contractions since they’re not as painful as I remember with Luke. Suddenly I feel him inserting his fingers in my opening and it’s not in the normal love making way. He’s feeling around to see if the baby is coming.
I hear the operator on the other end tell him that he’s going to deliver the baby here at home. The paramedics are on the way, but I’m probably going to deliver before they arrive. She’s not lying suddenly I’m hit by a major contraction and I can’t help but push. I remember what to do from birthing Luke. I think it helps Anthony’s nerves some since I know when to push and breathe.
He’s got the phone on speaker and is calling out what is going on to the operator. I can hear her telling him how to deliver the baby. This is so not what I signed up for. He tells the operator the head is out and I can feel the pressure of the shoulders as she’s instructing him how to deliver them.
I relax some as I hear the ambulance pulling into the drive way and Anthony instructs Luke on what to do to next. By the time the paramedics get inside the baby is fully delivered and one of the men helps Anthony to clamp and cut the umbilical cord. They lift me onto the gurney and take me to the ambulance.
Anthony nor Luke ride with me to the hospital since Anthony has to drive Luke so we have a car to come home from the hospital in. I get to hold my son in the ambulance the whole ride to the hospital and up to the labor and delivery ward. I still haven’t delivered the placenta, but the hospital will take care of that with me shortly.
A nurse puts a band on my wrist and on little man’s ankle as well as an alarm that will sound if he leaves without it being removed. They finally roll me toward a room and little man toward the nursery to be cleaned up and assessed.
A half hour later I’m finally allowed to have visitors, after I’ve delivered the placenta and been cleaned up. Kathy and Chris show up to pick up Luke for the night. They still have some of his clothes from when he stayed with them the last couple of times. Anthony and I had decided to leave some clothes there since we use them quite a bit to babysit when we need some alone time. That is a lifesaver at the moment since we didn’t pack a bag for Luke.
Kathy and Chris don’t stay long tonight, but promise once Luke is up and has eaten breakfast they’ll bring him by to see the little one. Anthony and I haven’t talked baby names since we didn’t know the sex of the baby, but I did some research on his grandfather, Leonardo Sharp, as a boys name. I hadn’t decided on a girls name. Well guess it was my women’s intuition.
The next morning I wake up and Anthony is holding our son I can tell he’s nervous because he’s never held a newborn baby before, let alone his own. When he sees I’m awake he shows me little man.
“The nurse brought him in a little while ago. He’s had a fresh bath, a diaper change and they gave him a bottle, the nurse wasn’t sure if he was bottle fed or breast fed, so since he was hungry they went ahead and fed him a bottle.” Anthony explains to me.
“I was going to combination feed him. When I had Luke it took several days for my milk to come in.” I inform Anthony of my choice.
“Oh, good, I was worried that I’d overstepped.” He says sounding a bit relieved.
Luke, Kathy and Chris come to visit shortly after I finish eating breakfast. I can tell immediately that Kathy has baby fever. She sees the little one and goes ga ga.
“Hey little fella.” Kathy says in a baby voice.
“So what are you two naming this little man?” Chris asks us.
“I’m not...” Anthony starts.
“Leonardo Eugene Sharp.” I say getting a head turn from Anthony and an eyebrow raise from Chris. Apparently no one thought that I would want to name my child an Italian name.
“Do you know that’s my grandfather’s name?” Anthony asks me.
I nod in response to his question. I can see the tears in his eyes. They’re happy tears. His grandfather taught him to be the man he is today, and what better way to keep him a great man than to raise a son with the same name.
Leonardo looks just like his father, his hair is dark, his skin tone is also dark, and the glimpse of his eyes that I got looked the same deep brown as his daddy’s. Anthony leans in and gives me a loving kiss to thank me for naming our son after his grandfather.
Kathy is keeping something from me and I can tell. She brought a gift for the baby, it’s a cute little blue elephant for the baby to cuddle when he is sleeping. She still has a shit eating grin on her face and I know that she’s hiding something from me.
“What is it Kathy?” I ask wanting to find out what she is hiding from me.
“Nothing Lilly.” She says as she’s shooting Chris a look.
“Chris, are you and Kathy hiding something from us?” Anthony asks his best friend trying to figure out what the two of them are keeping from us.
Chris crosses his arms before he replies to Anthony’s interrogation. “Nothing, this is your day. We are not stealing your happiness.” Chris says
“What are you guys pregnant?” Anthony asks Chris.
I see the shocked look cross Kathy’s face as Anthony suggests that they are pregnant. I never asked why they hadn’t tried for kids before now, because to each their own is my motto. But when I see the look on Kathy’s face I know that Anthony hit the nail on the head. I can tell that Anthony saw the expression on her face too and knows.
“Congratulations man.” He says as he gives Chris a hug followed by Kathy a hug. “I think I speak for both of us when I say that you didn’t take the happiness out of our day. We couldn’t be happier for the two of you.”Anthony finishes telling my sister and brother in law.
“When are you due?” I ask Kathy genuinely interested.
“I don’t know I just found out yesterday.” She informs me. “I took the test at home yesterday morning and then when I got a positive I went to my general doctor to have it confirmed. I had just gotten home when Luke called me to tell me that you were having little Leonardo.” Kathy explains to us.
I’m happy for my sister and Chris. They are expecting a child. My life is perfect, I have a wonderful husband, two wonderful sons and my sister and her husband are finally pregnant and will soon enjoy the joys of being parents themselves.
THE END