The Girl Who Became Royalty

Born Again

The doctor announces, "Elizabeth, They're crowing, it's time." "Elizabeth it's time to push." Chris is telling me, he also says, "I'm going to be here the whole time, I will hold your hand the whole time, just remember, I can feel the same pain as you do, so I will know what hurts.... that kind of sounded wrong didn't it... but I'll feel it somewhere around my stomach, that's what my dad said that he felt when my mom was giving birth to me, are you ready?" "Only if you are furball." Chris smiles and says, "One, Two, Three, Push, Okay, One, Two, Three, Push, One, Two Three, Push." It hurts so bad, I know Chris can feel it too, he's squeezing my hand harder, he quickly switches hands and places the other one against my face while I consintrate on pushing and breathing, He looks into my eyes, and Chris says, "You can do it Rose, I know you can, just keep on going, you can do it, ready? One, Two, Three, Push, Okay, One, Two, Three, PUSH!" I feel a calm relief after a couple of seconds the doctor says, "Baby A is out and is a Boy, Time is 11: 45 am, time for the second one, and the placenta." Chris repeats everything, and the last time he says, "PUSH!" another relief calming sensation spreads through my body, the doctor says, "Baby B is out and is a Girl, Time is 12:00 pm, now all we have to do is wait for the placenta, and you're ready to move, it's going to take a couple of hours or even days, and a couple fo days for you to rest, but rest assured, everything will return back to normal....... Well, you have children know so nothing will be the same ever again." I ask the doctor if it's ok if I lay on my side for a while, he says it's fine, the doctor's assistants clean the children up really good and set them in the other side of the bed close to me and Chris, I reach over to brush one of the kid's hair, the doctor asked what we were going to name them for the birth records and documents, I say, "Bronx for the boy, and Brooklyn for the girl, Brooklyn's nickname will be Brooke." Chris nods to the doctor sending his aproval of the names, Chris gently crawls over me to touch the children, he brushes one of their hair too, he gets off of me and goes to the otherside of the bed to go pick up one, he picks up Bronx, and rocks him back and forth in his arms, he puts Bronx down after five minutes and picks up Brooke, and holds her for five minutes and kisses them both he picks of each kid and puts them more towards me, and he slides them over so he can lay down next to all of us, "Chris can I take a nap?" "Sure love." and everything goes black.