Family Life

Chapter 1

Virgil's point a view

It had been 24 hours now since the babies arrived, I have barely had any sleep the last couple of days and its starting to show. It didn't help that I was worried about Bella and our babies, it took me almost a couple of hours to talk Bella into coming with me to see our babies.

I think Bella was scared to go and see them, which is why it took me a long time to be able to take her up.

"I can't do it Virgil, I don't want to see my babies hooked up to goodness knows what. What if they don't make it?"

"Hey, come here, I want you to forget about the what if's and come with me to see them. Sapphire and George just need help with their breathing plus they are keeping a close eye on them.

"I still can't believe that James didn't need a lot of help and I have been feeding him from the start, what can I do for my other babies nothing much?"

"Trust me there is a lot that you can do for them Bella , you need to feed these two as well" said Elektra who called in to check on everyone.

"There is?"

"We can feed them your breast milk through a drip, you will have to give that to us every morning, are you still feeding James okay?"

"Yeah, he is fine with it, but how am I meant to feed Sapphire and George if I can't get anywhere near them?"

"Now this is the good part, we can lend you an electric breast pump to help you with this. The only down side is that you would have to express 8-10 times a day to keep your milk supply up. I know it sounds like a lot to take in Bella, but your breast milk is best for your babies," said Elektra

"I don't know Elektra, its really starting to scare me now"

"Bella I will talk you through on how to use the breast pump, you will be fine with it. Believe it or not but your other two babies are doing great, they are both responding to treatment. As Virgil said we are going to keep on good eye on Sapphire and George, anyway I will leave you two to chat about things. I am around if you have any questions"

"You know I feel really bad about you doing all this feeding on your own, I have been doing a bit of research and there is a tablet that I can take so I can give you a hand"

"I'd rather not, what if it hurts you?"

"Okay why don't you at least let me look into it? I really want to help you in any way I can Bella"

It had been a couple of days since we had talked about it. Bella had agreed to let me investigate it to see what it can do. While we were getting something to eat Scott walks in with his morning coffee and headed out to refuel TB1 for taking Claire to the island for a couple of days.

We knew that Claire was missing everyone on the island, so, I went to see how Scott was getting on with refuelling one.

"Hey Scott, did you enjoy your coffee this morning?"

"Not really it seems a bit off, did you not buy fresh milk before I came?"

"We did but did you ever think about reading the label? Before putting the milk in your coffee. Scott I really hate to tell you this but that was breast milk."

I really felt bad for Scott so I told him to come back to the kitchen and I would make him another one. As we walked back into the kitchen Bella could tell that there was something going on.

"Okay what happened with you two down there?"

"Well let's just say Scott had a very interesting coffee this morning" I reply while trying not to laugh at my older brother.

"Oh, Scott you didn't mistake my breast milk for actual milk, did you?" asked Bella while trying not to laugh.

"I did but Virgil here is going to make me another one aren't you Virgil ? Asked Scott as I put the kettle on, you know I think this has cheered Bella up a bit today.

She seems down but she is getting there. After we had something to eat, we headed back to the hospital again. Once we got there Elektra had just come on duty, she told us that by the end of the week the doctors are going to try and see if the babies could breathe on their own.

Scott had decided to fly Claire over to the island for a couple of days and Dad had wanted to come out to meet his grandchildren.

It had been a couple of days since Scott took Claire for us, during our time at the hospital both mum and grandma came to see our babies. Bella has now got the hang of using the breast pump that Lisa gave her, and I still feel awful that I can't help Bella with feeding.