Neighbors

Baby Number Two

"Mark?" A nurse calls after opening the door to the many offices of the OBGYN clinic.

Mark, Mayleen, and Jackson all stand, Jackson holding on to Mayleen as they walk through the hallways. They check Mark's weight and height before admitting him to a room. The nurse shuts the door and turns to face the couple with a smile, "How are we today?"

"Well, I think we're officially eating for two now," Mark giggles, sitting in the patient chair before she sits in doctor's chair and begins to type in information.

"Alright, so when did you find out and how far along do you think you are?" The nurse asked, slightly smiling as she typed quickly with her acrylic nails.

"I found out over the weekend, we had been trying but only for a week and I believe this baby was already conceived before we started trying."

She nods, typing in the information, "So probably about six weeks give or take?"

"Yeah that sounds close," Mark nods.

She nods, the only sound in the room was the slight breathing from the four people and her nails clicking on the keyboard as she typed. Mayleen, with a shy smile on her cute lips, leans in and whispers to Jackson, "Daddy."

"What?" Jackson whispers back, leaning his ear towards her.

"Her nails are pwetty," Mayleen whispers back, hiding in his chest.

Jackson chuckles, kissing her cheek, "Why don't you tell her?"

The nurse smiles, Mayleen peeks at her shyly and grins back, "Your nails are pretty~"

"Thank you! My husband likes it when I scratch his back with them," she giggles, going back to typing before taking Mark's blood pressure and temperature before standing and taking her computer with her, "Alright, the doctor will be right in!"

"Bye bye!" Mayleen calls, waving to her.

"Bye sweetie!" The nurse smiles, giggling as she shuts the door. Mayleen wiggles out of Jackson's lap and crawls into Mark's instead, she looks straight at him and tilts her head, "Mommy why are we here?"

"Because mommy's getting a check up," Mark responds, kissing her nose.

They haven't really discussed how they were going to tell Mayleen yet, but considering Mark isn't very much far along they won't be able to pick up the baby's image using an external ultrasound Doppler. When Mark found out he was pregnant with Mayleen, that's what they had to use when he found out he was five weeks pregnant with her. He's hoping he's a little farther along than six weeks, so hopefully they won't have to use the internal Doppler wand.

"Is mommy sick?" Mayleen asks, pouting slightly.

"No baby, mommy just needs to get something looked at," Jackson says easily, at least he had an idea of what to say, Mark still didn't want to tell her about why they were there and about the potential baby yet.

There was a knock and a man dressed in a nice button down and khakis enters the room, "Good morning, I am Dr. Lee, I will be your OBGYN unless you have another doctor you potentially want to use," he chuckles, shaking hands with the parents. His bleached blonde hair bounces as he sits in the chair and types in the information the nurse gave him quickly, then turns to Mark, "Alright, so how far along do you think you are Mark?"

"About six weeks maybe?" Mark guessed, fidgeting with his hands as the doctor hums and types it in.

"Alright, and typically we can't see the fetus on the external ultrasound at this time because it's too early in the pregnancy, so we will take care of that shortly. What gave you the idea that you might be pregnant?"