herophine - Trouvaille

Chapter 4

Perth - Australia, 2021

Sofía Jane Fiennes-Tiffin was born on September 9th, 2021 at Glengarry Private Hospital in Perth. 

A gynecologist had been supervising that everything was going well throughout the pregnancy. He had been carefully instructed by Chartier, so he limited to check on Jo without doing any indiscreet question. 

During those months, it became more difficult for Jo to feel anything that wasn't boredom. The first two months locked in that apartment she spent them crying in bed. It then started to mix with claustrophobia and every new day seemed to have an hour more. But from the third month on, she stopped crying because she wasn't even able to feel sad. She just wanted to sleep and wake up when all this had finished.

When she was younger, Josephine used to feel unready to be a mother and she wasn't sure she wanted kids. Now she is completely convinced she doesn't want them. 

If a good doctor had looked beyond the physical aspects of her pregnancy, he would have realized that this 23 year old girl had a depression as big as Australia. But it was not in Lena or Chartier's plans to worry about her mental health.

Josephine's gynecologist had a cesarean section scheduled for week 38. She begged for general anesthesia, although she got local. 

The midwive picked up the newborn with a towel and brought it close to its mother. But the blonde young girl had her eyes closed and even though she was hearing the loud and persistant cries of the baby, she refused to open her eyes and forced herself not to hear the cries calling for her. 

It wasn't the first time that the midwive witnessed something like this. Many women aren't able to establish an immediate bond with their child. So the midwive left record of it: "The mother has rejected skin-to-skin with the newborn. Possible postpartum depression."

After the pediatrician checked the baby, the midwive tried to bring it near its mother again, but Josephine's eyes were quite closed. By her breathing rythm, the midwive knew she was not asleep. She sighed and walked with the little one to the room besides the surgery room, where the father was waiting for his baby daughter. He was as young as the mother but, unlike her, he had his eyes really opened.

Hero doesn't know the exact moment he fell in love with Jo. It was a progressive process throughout the After filming. Neverthless he knows in that exact moment when he has his daughter in his arms for the first time, that he has never felt a love like the one he feels for his daughter.

The name of Sofía Jane was a small guilty pleasure. He couldn't call her Josephine or Eliza for his own emotional health. However, when the midwive asks him for the baby's name so she can write it down, he doesn't doubt: "Sofía Jane, her name is Sofía". 

Bulgaria and "Lady Jane" from The Rolling Stones, will always be a great combination.