Everything I Need; Christian Yelich

Ten Centimeters Dilated

Christian's POV

Cassie has been in labor for about almost twelve hours. She hasn't been able to sleep since she was dilated at about eight centimeters now. Contractions were super painful for her to the point where she was shaking, and she couldn't speak. Everyone was in the room with us again because she was nervous and didn't want to be alone.

She sat up and looked at me. "You did this to me," She mumbled and everyone tried holding in their laughs.

"I'm sorry," I whispered and she pulled me closer to her.

"But hey, it looks like 2021 is the year we are bringing babies into this world," She said and I smiled thinking about us at the New Years Party.

"I love you so much," I said. About fifteen minutes later, the nurses came in.

"You're ten centimeters dilated," One of them said after checking, and I looked at Cassie who seemed super nervous.

All of the guys left and the girls came up to the bed. We already discussed that my mom would hold her left hand, her mom would hold her left leg. I would hold her right hand and leg, and Larisa would record and take pictures.

"Christian I'm nervous," She said as all the nurses came in to help.

"Hey you're going to do great and after you'll have your food."

"Okay Mrs. Yelich," Cassie smiled when he called her that, "When you have a contraction you're going to push. When we tell you to stop pushing, stop because you don't want to tear things more." She nodded and we waited for a contraction. "Okay push Cassie."

She started pushing and she squeezed my hand tightly. I looked down and everything was expanding down there. I wasn't freaked out because it was normal in labor. Cassie stopped and she was tired already. It took about ten minutes and a lot of pushes until the baby was actually close to coming.

She squeezed my hand and when I looked down there, I could see the back of the baby's head. "You're doing great babe." A few more pushes and then the baby was out. The doctor put the baby on Cassie's chest and he started crying. Cassie cried as well and I looked at the baby. "We're parents babe," I said and kissed her. We looked at the baby for about a minute before they took him and set him down. 

"Okay, let's start on Baby B," The doctor said and I got tense again. She had a few seconds. before the doctor had her start pushing again. The second baby came out with three pushes. There was the crying sound again and my heart was happy. Cassie got to hold both the boys on her chest while they cleaned their heads and bodies really quick.

"We will be outside, let us know when you want us back in," Larisa said and they all left.

"Are we still on board with the names we discussed?" She asked me.

"Yes I'm still fine with it, are you?" Cassie nodded her head and looked at the babies.

"You gave me two perfect adorable babies," She said and looked at them. "That was just a very exhausting process."

"I wish I could say I understand but I don't."

"I'm really sorry for getting mad at you and kicking you out every two seconds."

"It's fine babe don't worry about it. Just for your information, I'm very jealous of our kids right now." She smiled and looked at me.

We held them for a few minutes before putting them up. The nurses finished everything they had to do, and then they left. Then we got the boys in some diapers. Before letting everyone in, we made sure everything was clean. I opened the door and everyone started piling in.