I Wish I Loved You

8: You Know They Can't...

8: "You Know They Can't Hear You, Right?"

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[Tyler's POV]

"Oh, that's ok, I will wait." My mother's heavy Italian accent poured through the phone, after thirty years in America she still acted like she lived in Italy. I looked at Anastasia.

"You'll wait." I repeated. She looked at me like she was going to kill me and turned around suddenly. Just as I was about to ask what she was doing she fell to her knees and retched before passing out.

"Hey, Ma, I gotta go we'll call you later," I hung up the phone and rushed over to Ana, "Anastasia! Ana, come on I can't carry, you're laying in barf."

She moaned in response and I sighed. She was fine, but now I had to carry her because I'd be stupid to call 911. I picked her up bridal style and walked her to the car.

The things I do for this woman.

I drove to the maternal ER considering she was pregnant, throwing up, and randomly passed out; I had no idea what to do. Once there, I passed my wife off to the nurses and went to the apartment. I guess she won't want to go to home in horrible smelling clothes when she wakes up.

By the time I changed, got her clothes, and got back to the ER the nurse was ready to lead me back to Ana's room. In the room, she sat up listening to Dr. Strauss.

"...you'll defiantly be fine, but like I said-"

"Hey, Dr. Strauss, long time no see."

"Ah, Mr. Meyers, I was wondering where you ran off to."

"Just home to change."

"And clean the car out I hope," Anastasia commented.

"Oh no, you're doing that yourself."

"Have a seat Tyler, I was just about to tell your wife here my diagnosis," I took the seat next to the hospital bed, once I was settled he continued, "Mrs. Scott-Meyers, I believe you have a condition known as

hyperemesis gravidarum. Hyperemesis gravidarum is an uncommon disorder in which extreme, persistent nausea and vomiting occur during pregnancy. Many women pass it off as simple morning sickness, but vomiting more once or twice a day can cause dehydration and be very harmful to the baby and yourself."

"Well does that mean, is it bad?" Anastasia asked him. I looked over to see a concerned look on her face. I sensed her growing love for our baby and that made me smile inwardly.

"Hyperemesis gravidarum is usually presented if you had it during a previous pregnancy."

"This is my first time being pregnant from what I remember." I nodded.

"It's also present in the pregnancies of first-time mothers."

"Do you have any idea why I have it?"

"It can be caused by the presence of trophoblastic disease, which involves the abnormal growth of cells inside a woman's uterus, but since you don't seem to show any indication of that disease there could only be one other reason. You are having a multiple pregnancy."

"Wait- what?" I interluded, "It took me four years to get her pregnant, how is she suddenly so fertile?"

"I'm not positive that this is the problem so I ordered some lab tests, I'll just have the results sent to your obstetrician for by your first appointment. How far along are you?"

She glanced to me as she answered, "Five weeks?" She nodded, reassuring herself.

"Then you'll know in three weeks."