Hidden Love

Four

" Wait!" He heard her call to hi., "We need you. Someone is in labor and put doctors aren't here. They are assisting in another delivery. Come quick."
"Background."
"Normal pregnancy up until now. We are finding an odd echo on the fetal monitor and we don't have access to an ultrasound. She is dilated to a three and has received medication. Our nurse says the baby feels like it's either sideways or possibly breech. We need to deliver the baby."
"How long has she been laboring?"
"She said all day. She isn't looking too good either."
"Okay, without an ultrasound I can't tell you for sure what position the baby is in. So I will need an operating room prepared just in case. I'll see what I can feel and decide from there. I'll also need one or two more nurses and all others out of the room. If she's not looking good the extra people will stress her and he baby out."
She nodded and headed into a room right next to a large sink. He washed his hands and put on a paper suit that he saw laying there. He got himself into work mode and went inside. Upon looking at the patient, she looked dangerously pale and was sweating a lot. The echo was showing on the monitor which she was hooked up to. He put on gloves and checked her dilation again. She hadn't progressed. He took the gloves off.
"I need to break your waters. To see if that helps you move along. But first let me check the baby for position."
He did so and felt something hard and in position but he couldn't tell what it was. He felt around and felt for the head or butt and found the baby to be laying at a very odd angle.
"The baby is almost transverse. We need to move you to an operating room. Dad, put on scrubs and I'll call for you when I'm ready." He informed them.
A dark musk smell filled the air. Something about that smell caught him off guard. Nalla had returned and shook her head at the man.
" She needs to be moved." He informed her. They began to move her and he pulled the father aside. "I am trying to save their lives. How long has she really been in labor for?"
"Since yesterday morning. She had some cramping. She told me it was fine but clearly it's not. Please do something to save her." The man begged him.
"I do this for a living. I promise to keep them both safe."
Once in the room, he prepared her for the surgery and allowed her husband to come in. Then he slowly opened her stomach up as to not harm the baby. What he saw was shocking. He saw a baby's butt but also a foot above it. There were twins in there. He pulled one baby out slowly and let dad cut the cord. Then he passed her off to Elhena.
"Make it snappy. There's another." He said as he began working the second baby out.
He got it out only to see another head. He passed it off quickly and fished the last baby out.
"You are now the proud parents of three babies. Two boys and a girl. They are very small and it's amazing how you've managed to carry them this long. I would like to oversee their care. I'll have Elhena help set up a clean room for them. But right now they may be okay but it could change at any moment." He said, " They could have any number of problems. I want to be sure they survive past this point."
"You... You have our blessing." His patient said as he went to evaluate the babies.
They all weighed around three pounds and the girl showed signs of distress. He asked for a clean room to be prepped as soon as possible. He took them into the only other sterile room they had and continued to work. Once there and settled for a moment he labeled the boys and began making charts.
"Elhena, when your primary doctor comes in have her scrub in I'd like to talk with her please." He said and she nodded and continued to monitor the babies. A sudden beeping noise happened from one of the monitors he knew his fun was beginning. One of the babies had stopped breathing and was loosing its pulse. Elhena came rushing in while another woman and man kept the others out.