The Dance We Shared

18

When Lindsey walks back into the room, the baby is starting to cry so he not knowing what to do, just starts checking him. The diaper is dry so he assumes he wants food so he looks at the counter, there are formula and stuff on it and directions and then he hears her.

"I wanna feed him." 

"Hey, how are you feeling?" Lindsey asks turning around and going to kiss her head. 

"Sore, very sore...but I wanna feed him." 

"Breastfeed or Bottle Feed?" Lindsey looks down at Stevie who has her arms outstretched waiting for him.

"Bottle, I'm not breastfeeding I'm in the middle of a tour you know, I can't very well say oh, I can't finish I need to know because I have to go feed my baby." She smirks.

"Well here you go,  I'll figure out what I have to do." He states.

"The lactation consultant I turned down said two scoops of formula." She explains when Lindsey places the baby in her arms.

"Alright. Hey, check out the notepad on your table." He points going back to the bottle. 

"Seth Jess, it's my father's name backward." She states.

"I know, what do you think?" 

"For the baby...but what about your dad," 

"Cory Maureen. It's already taken care of...what do you think? It doesn't have to be his name. I just kind of liked it." 

"Seth Jess Buckingham does have a really nice ring to it." Stevie smiles looking down at the crying baby who she's lightly trying to bounce and soothe. She was holding him under the blanket trying to do a partial skin to skin while he was eating. 

"Yeah?" Lindsey questions handing her the bottle.

"Yeah." She nods sticking it in Seth's mouth as he starts suckling greedily.

"Speaking of Jess Seth Nicks, they're on their way. I called them and they said they'd be here this afternoon. Karen's coming too." Lindsey nods.

"Really!" Stevie asks a smile playing on her face,

"Yeah, they thought we were in New York." Lindsey states.

"I swear Lindsey, I didn't know. I had small little cramps all day and I felt slightly bad pains after a few of my songs but they weren't enough to double me over and alarm me.  They weren't bad at all. But as soon as we took off and were in the air for like forty-five minutes that's when then they got really bad. Really fast." 

"I'm just glad you made it home." Lindsey kisses her head.

"Me too, because I wouldn't have been able to do this without you with me, That last push I was ready to give up, but you talked me out of it.  I pushed for two and a half hours, Lindsey." Stevie explains.

When they got to the hospital at about six forty five that morning, the doctors checked her and she was at nine. They barely had time to get her situated with heart monitors and an IV before she screamed "I have to push, let me push." 

"I know, I'm glad we made it in time, any later we barely would've been out of the car. But You would've. You wouldn't have liked it but you would've." Lindsey nods.

"He looks like you." She smiles admiring his little face while he sucked on the bottle.

"He's got more of a light brown hair  though." Lindsey points out.

"True, but he looks just like you so I have no doubt that his hair is going to get darker. It's already got your little whispy curls...I love you, Buck." Stevie looks at him.

"What did you call me?" 

"Buck." She looks at him.

"Buck instead of Linds...Since when did I become Buck?" He asks.

"My dad calls you Buck. Our friends call you Buck...but, if I call you Buck I can call him Baby Buck."Stevie explains.

"Okay." Lindsey kisses her head again.

"I think he's done..." Stevie sighs seeing that the bottle was empty. 

"Well, he sucked that bottle down fast." Lindsey chuckles.

"I'm going to burp him can you find one of the outfits I brought and get it out for me? And then can you grab my pajamas?" She smiles shifting to him to burp him, but the thing she was enjoying the most was the proper skin to skin contact they were now having.

"Did the doctor say you could?" he asks.

It was then that a knock came at her door, which was slightly ajar, and then the doctor presses in.

"Did I say you could what?" She questions.

"Put my pajamas on," Stevie states still holding his little partially naked body to her naked body.  

"Oh yes, I did...I just want to check you out one more time and then you'll be fine. Usually, at this time we move Mom and baby to postpartum but since you're special and you're in a private room we're just going to keep you here." The doctor nods. 

"Fine, can I hold him and keep burping him while you examine me?" She asks.

"Of course, we're giant advocates of as much skin to skin as you can.  It might be a little uncomfortable. Do you want me to shut the curtain?" 

"No, he's seen it all." Stevie shakes her head as Lindsey just holds his hand up and nods going back to dig in the small bag they brought. 

When the doctor is done with Stevie, she and Lindsey help her stand and get dressed in her own pajamas a navy blue silk nightgown, and a matching robe because that's all she wears to sleep and then Stevie uses the bathroom, and then she sits up straight on the bed. After she flicks the television on and settles on a sitcom, she lays Seth down onto the bed and changes him into the outfit that Lindsey picked out. It was a little grey short sleeve romper with a little teddy bear right over Seth's heart. 

"Lindsey, call Karen," Stevie demands.

"Why?" He asks.

"So she can pick me up a chicken burrito and a coke." 

"You are going to drink a coke?" Lindsey asks.

"I really want one." She nods.

"Alright." He nods pulling out his Cell phone.

***

Stevie was eating her Burrito when Lindsey's phone rang. Karen was also in the room, sitting over in the far corner eating her own form of a burrito.  Lindsey whined and placed his nachos down on the table and answered only to stand up and walk out of the room. Stevie just rolled her eyes and looked at her sleeping baby in her arms and went back to chowing on her meal.

She was sipping on her drink when her parents walked into the room and she immediately cut herself off and pushed the table out of the way opening her arms for her mother who returned her hug.

"Congratulations. You must be exhausted. You were home three hours before he was born?" 

"Yeah, it was a long night, I'm okay right now, but I know I'm going to crash early tonight." Stevie nods. 

"Hey, Teedee." Jess comes in and kisses her head. 

"Daddy, um I hope you don't mind." Stevie bites her lip.

"What?" Jess questions.

"Would you like to hold Seth Jess Buckingham?" She question, and just like that he crumbled very similarly to when Lori and Christopher announced Jessica James Nicks. But he nodded anyway and took the baby into his arms which allowed Stevie to go back to eating.