HARD WORK

HARD WORK _57

YOU'RE HAVING MY BABY/WHAT A LOVELY WAY OF SAYING YOU LOVE ME....

Jade groaned once again when she felt yet another slash of pain hit her lower abdomen. It lasted longer this time around so she saw it best to wake her husband up. He was a bit further away and she had to get off the bed to wake him up.

'Maliq ! Maliq! '

Maliq opened his eyes to a frantic Jade. He quickly jumped up when he heard her groan and bite her lower lip in pain trying to stifle her screams

'Babe what's wrong?'

'I think your son wants to come into this world on his own ....'

She had been having what she guessed by now was contractions for more than an hour.At first the pain would hit her then it would stop then return twenty minutes or so later but right now the pains were coming faster than Castor Semenya. She grabbed onto her husband's arm as he helped her into the bed after calling the nurse.

'Jade the doctor will be here soon...'

The nurse said as she checked her dilation.

'Shoot! I do not think he will make it in time... daddy get ready because it looks like your son will be here any minute. Please press that button for me. I need another nurse in here.'

Maliq did as told and two nurses came rushing in. One helped Maliq dress in his blue sterile gown and the other helped prepare the baby's incubator while the first nurse prepared for delivery.

'Nurse Melanie,I think he's coming'

Jade said with tears in her eyes,she was afraid for her baby,afraid that he might not make it. She had asked Maliq to call her mom and she had hoped the baby would hold in at least until her mother and the doctor got here.

'Jade,you are fully dilated,I will need you to push with each contraction and daddy remember to comfort mommy and encourage her.'

Jade spent the next thirty minutes delivering her son. The doctor came in just as the rest of his body was delivered. He had a strong cry which brought a smile onto everyone's face in the room. Maliq cut the cord with trembling hands as his grandmother and mother in law laughed at him.

'Happy birthday daddy'

Jade said handing over her son to his father and that's when Maliq remembered that today was his birthday and his son was the best gift he could have ever asked for. He kissed his wife and thanked her as he rocked his son in his arm before the nurses took him away.

' What will you name him daddy?'

Malik thought for a while,He had always wanted a junior but since Jade's friend had named her baby a junior,he thought he would try something different.

' I will call him Lamin which also means King. So he can still be a junior.'

Maliq's mom barged into the hospital room with his younger sister behind her trying to stop her.

'I just want to see if this baby is truly my son's. Why can't I come in or are you hiding something Jaden.'

Jade sighed before looking at Maliq like handle that.

'I know you know my wife's name so I won't correct that but I need you to get out before you upset my family.'

Maliq's mother looked at her son shocked at how he was talking to her,he had never stood up to her like that. She gave a smile that made Jade uneasy before walking out.