James Sirius Potter: Birth Story

Check Ups

At Twenty Eight weeks pregnant Ginny was officially done with with this pregnancy thing, it began to get more and more draining for her, due to the little sleep she got each night, Harry tried to console her, but it was no use, as Ginny was a hormonal woman, and gave out to him for it, despite knowing he was doing no wrong. Every night James would kick, punch and jab her stomach, during the day, surprisingly, it wasn't as bad. Ginny was becoming an unpleasent person to be around, therefore, Harry tried to keep a lot of their contact minimal.

On a dismal Thursday morning, Harry and Ginny waited outside in a St Mungo's, for their midwife/ nurse Padma Patil, the pair looked sternly at the wall opposite them, not saying a word to each other, due to a disagreement that morning.

The door opened, and out walked George Weasley, a very pregnant Angelina, followed by Padma Patil, the three of whom were smiling widely chatting intently.

"I'll see you both then, if you have any more questions you know my owl." Padma told them both, evidently in mid-conversation.

"Thank you Padma—" Angelina started, before he eyes flickered onto the glum Potter's, "Well look who it is." She grinned at the pair, who got up out of their seats. "How are you both?" She asked, giving Ginny a knowing look as she noticed the bags under the younger girls eyes.

"Exausted, you?" Ginny replied with a stiff yawn.

"Happy now." Angelina said through a smile, nodding her head towards George.

"April twenty sixth due date." He confided in them, "but—" he wasn't sure of what to say, so Padma chipped in.

"He's a very hyperactive baby, it wouldn't surprise me if he's a bit early, but we are going to start getting their room ready in the next two weeks." Padma supplied, as the couple beamed merrily.

"Why so soon?" Harry questioned curiously.

"To prepare for the media hype campaign." Padma told him solemnly, "once we check Ginny out, I would recommend you do the same, so there is no waiting, with that in mind I would suggest you both keep your due date low key, but be prepared for the paparazzi, I can assure you my team will give any details away, but I can't guarantee any other works here won't, so we need to have everything in place beforehand."

"And if you thought killing You Know Who was scary, mate." George joked, as the four others laughed.

"Well we best be off, we promised mum we'd call in straight after." Angelina told them all, taking Georges hand.

"Right, I'll see you both then." Padma smiled at them, waving them goodbye, as Harry and Ginny did the same.

"I suppose we should get started then." Padma announced, opening the wards door' and followed the couple after they got into the room.

Ginny let out a big yawn.

"Tired, Ginny?" Padma asked, with a small laugh.

"Tell me about it." Ginny replied, her voice sounding sore and bitter

"I could only go so far." Padma answered, taking Ginny's rhetorical statement literally, "I suppose I only know much in the sense of theory, but I don't think I will ever know until Anthony and I have kids."