Connected By Heart ✔

SEVEN

"Everything will be fine honey, we are in this together" Terrence assured and placed a kiss on Gabby's forehead.

As promised, he accompanied her for the checkup and they were both waiting in the reception until it was Gabby's turn to be called in. Gabby was so grateful he had accompanied her as she could not imagine going through this alone. She was anxious and scared at the same time.

Shortly, a nurse approached Gabby and told her that Doctor Isabelle was ready to see her in the ultrasound room. Terrence and Gabby walked hand in hand as if their lives depended on it.

"Hey! look who we have here," Isabelle stated as the soon-to-be parents stepped into the ultrasound room.

"Good morning, Isabelle," Gabby replied as Isabelle approached her and gave her a warm hug.

"Morning Bella" Terrence greeted, she hugged him too.

"I'm so happy you decided to keep the baby and I couldn't be happier seeing the both of you together." Isabelle cooed.

They all chuckled.

"So let's get started," Isabelle ushered Gabby to sit on the bed while Terrence took a seat on a chair beside the bed and held Gabby's right hand.

"Anything new between yesterday and today?" Isabelle asked.

"I felt less nauseous after taking the vitamins but I still had morning sickness today" Gabby replied. She bought the vitamins yesterday on her way back from lunch with Terrence.

Isabelle nodded at Gabby's response"It will take a while for the morning sickness to disappear completely."

"Now let's see how our precious one is doing," Isabelle told Gabby to lay flat on the bed and Terrence assisted Gabby in rolling her blouse up.

Even though her belly was still flat, he lovingly caressed her lower abdomen area. Isabelle was in awe and couldn't help but smile towards a blushing Gabby.

"So this will be a little cold" Isabelle warned before she applied a gel on Gabby's stomach and indeed the gel was truly cold as she shivered. Terrence noticed that and he gave her hand a comforting squeeze.

Isabelle placed a wand on Gabby's abdomen which was connected to a monitor. Something blurry appeared on the screen, Isabelle zoomed in and both Gabby and Terrence were able to have a better view of it.

"Here's your baby." She pointed to what looked like a jelly bean. "He or she is growing and in a few weeks, you will be able to see the head properly and I'm sure by then, your baby's hands and legs will have developed."

Terrence did not even blink for once. He was listening intently to what Isabelle was saying as his eyes were glued to the monitor. "Wow." that was only what he could utter.

Gabriela, on the other hand, smiled all through.

"So now let us listen to the heartbeat." She pressed something on the monitor and suddenly, the room was filled with a wonderful sound that both Gabby and Terrence would never get tired of hearing.

"OMG," Gabby burst into tears of joy. Everything just felt real to her by hearing her baby's strong heartbeat.

Terrence had a proud smile on his face. He wiped away Gabby's tears with his right thumb after which he kissed her forehead.

Isabelle smiled at the lovebirds then proceeded to print out copies of the ultrasound. She came back with the copies and handed them over to Terrence. "I didn't know exactly how much you guys would want so I printed as much as I could."

"Thanks." Gabby and Terrence said together.

"Don't mention." She gave Gabby some wipes to wipe off the gel on her belly while Terrence kept admiring the ultrasound pictures. God knows Isabelle printed out what Gabby could count as almost 15 copies.