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Part 4

AN: Podcast is in italics, and there is a flashback scene in italics, but it's labeled too. 

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Today was the day Peter was dreading; it was the first day he wasn't going to see Meredith since he found out. Gamora had the day off and admitted she missed hanging out with the little girl. Peter agreed, realizing this would be the only way he would get work done.

Between switching tasks, Peter decided to take a short break and listen to another episode of Everyday's a Monday. He laid on the couch in his and Bucky's office slipping on his headphones and clicked on episode #12 of 129. He has been trying to listen to them when he had time, but he wanted to hang with Meredith as much as he could. He hasn't heard anything about himself yet like Meredith mentioned, and he still couldn't remember the nickname you gave him. You haven't even talked yet, but Wanda has talked an awful lot about you. He closed his eyes as Wanda began the introductions.

"Hey, beautiful people, today's guest on the show is Dr. Helen Cho, our favorite OBGYN. And you won't believe it, but YN agreed to join us at the end and tell us a bit about her adorable baby girl, Meredith. Que the intro."

Dr. Cho spoke about the baby forming, c-sections, and menstrual cycles. Like how the sex of a baby can be better determined at twelve weeks after conception. During c-sections, mothers are awake. Menstrual cycles take a while to come back especially if the mother is breastfeeding. It was a lot of information about women's bodies Peter never thought about.

"I want to thank Dr. Helen Cho for coming in and speaking with us. I hope our listeners enjoyed the conversation and learned a thing or two. Unfortunately, she had to rush off to deliver more beautiful babies into the world, and I hope she will stop by again. Anywho, it's time for our next part of the podcast talking with my good friend and producer of this show, YN."

"Thanks for blackmailing me to come on my own show."

"Ignore her. I would never do such a thing," Wanda tittered. "With us talking about pregnancy and birthing today, YN does have an interesting story of how she came into the world. Would you mind sharing?"

"Of course not, I mean it fits the topic of the week. My mom suffered from ovarian cysts, and most of the time they got so bad she needed surgery to remove them. My parents started debating if it was even worth to keep trying to get pregnant if my mother continued to suffer from this. Then a few days before surgery to remove them, the doctors were performing an ultrasound, and 'tada' found me. They delayed the surgery until after I was born. Then a year or two later, my family decided to adopt, and that's when Gamora and Nebula came into my life. We might not be sisters by blood, but we did become a family."

"You're sisters are the best. Her sister, Nebula, travels the world as a photographer and always brings back the best gifts. Gamora is a badass lawyer who works at Coulson & Associates. Then you're the hotshot producer, and you're doing it all while raising your 5-year-old daughter, Meredith. How do you handle being a single mother?"

"It can be hard, but I'm fortunate to have my parents and sisters willing to help me if I need it. I remember the first year being the hardest, especially the nights I was alone, but somehow I managed to pull through. At the time, I was living with my sisters because all the money I made went to paying for daycare. Most weekends my sisters helped, and forced me to get out, but I would only be gone for a few hours before I had to connect myself to the milk machine, again," you chuckled. "I don't miss that at all. Around six months, things got easier because she got on a schedule."

"Schedules are nice. I know with my twins, Me and Vis struggled, and to this day we still don't know how we did it."

"Oh yes, I bet it was like a daze for the first few months."