Dark night of the soul

Chapter 73

Sarah's POV
I'm laying in the bed wearing a hospital gown. I've been here for 45 minutes in labour and the contractions are being to get more frequent. I am now having contractions every two to three minutes.
I feel another coming on. I start my breathing exercises again. I take long deep breaths in and out.
I squeeze Jessica's hand tightly. "Come on baby the contraction is nearly over" she says. "Aarghhhh" I shout.
I doctor comes in to check my cervix. "Okay Sarah we are going to need to take you into the operating theatre because your baby is backwards" she doctor says. He presses a button on the wall and three more doctors run in and the take the breaks off the bed and wheel me to the operating room. Jess is by my side the whole time.
She is handed blue scrubs which she quickly changes into and she stands by my side again. A screen is put up in front of me so I can't see what's going on. "It's okay baby, everything is going to be okay" Jess says stoking my hair. "I'm scared Jess" I say. Sweat beads trickle down my forehead. I feel another contraction. This one was worst than the last. "ARRGGHGG!!!" I scream.
Doctors flood the room and some of them are behind the screen. I feel something sharp push into my stomach then moments later I feel something moving around in my stomach. I'm guessing it was the doctors hands. I feel a tug then I hear the cries of my newborn baby.
My baby is handed to a doctor who takes her to the other side of the room to wrap her in a blanket.
I feel pinching and tugging on my stomach and about five minutes later I had stitches and my baby was handed over to me.
"Hello my gorgeous girl" I say with tears in my eyes. "I can't believe I'm finally meeting you, my precious Ava" I say.
I look up to Jess who has tears in her eyes as well. "I'm so proud of you sweetheart" she says and kisses my forehead.

-a few days later-
It's been two days since I gave birth and I've had many visitors. My parents, Jess, Lily, Zachary, Amanda, Ryan etc.
I'm allowed to walk around slowly at the moment so I'm making my way to the room where my baby is.
It's 9pm and I need to feed Ava. I open the door to the room and I see a tall dark figure standing next to one of the cribs.
As I move closer I notice that the crib is Ava's, but who is the person?