Making Friends...

Chapter twenty four, birthing classes.

"Focus on your breathing, in and out, in and out, in your nose and out your mouth, hold onto your partners hand, squeeze his or her hand on your breath in and release on your breath out" the teacher instructed calmly.

Nat and I were sat on a blue yoga mat, her sitting in between my legs facing away from me while I sat on my knees, my right hand clutched in hers and my left resting in her belly as she did the exercises, the baby kicking at her with every breath in. To say this was awkward is an understatement, having my sister in law sitting in between my legs as my hand rested on her belly is the last thing I wanted.

"Okay, next we're going to pull out our yoga balls"

"Go get mine please, I think it might take me a while to get up" Nat said as she was finally aloud to let my hand go

"Okay, I'll be right back"

I ran over and grabbed a red yoga ball before bringing it back and helping Nat get up after she gave up in trying to stand on her own. The girls were instructed to sit on the yoga balls, legs spread and hands on their belly's as they rotated their hips and the ball with their eyes closed, still breathing their breathing exercises. One of the lady's beside us, around our age looked over to Nat and me and smiled.

"I didn't realize your baby daddy would be so adorable Natalie" she said and nearly nocked Nat off balance.

"He's now my baby daddy, this isn't even my devil, sorry I meant, baby" Nat replied, going back to doing circles on the ball

"Oh, I'm sorry"

"It's okay Janice, it's not the first time it's happened, I'm being a surrogate for my brother, this is his husband, Emerson, also, I will need to be reminded to never agree to this again" Nat said, out of breath and clutching at her belly as she stopped moving for a minute, I was immediately at her side, rubbing her back.

"Nat! Are you okay? What's wrong? Are in labor, please don't be in labor" I blabbered and she laughed along with Janice

"No, it's fine, just contractions" she wheezed and then after a minute for it to die down she motioned for me to help her stand "Doctor said the best thing to do is to walk through it" she said again and slowly started walking, she held onto my hand for support but it really felt like she was trying to break it.

"Okay, I think I need to pee" Nat said a few minutes later, I flashed a hand signal at the teacher that was for the washroom and lead her out of the room "I'm so glad that this is the last one, that damn yoga ball she has us on every class just increases my contractions, it's been like this for a few weeks"

"That's a good thing right?"

"Yeah, just painful and, fuck!" She hunched over and couched at her stomach again "bitch" she whispered "I swear to god, this child you out in be is not human, you gave me the devils child to birth, things going to tear me apart with it's horns when it's born"

"It'll be out in less then a month"

"I know, thank god, I'm getting so drunk after it's born"

"Of course you are"

We arrived at the washrooms and Nat went inside while I waited outside, she came back out about five minutes later, her bun fixed and she looked exhausted.

"I think the class is almost over, let's go back and I'm sure they'll be packing up" I said as she grabbed my arm to help her waddle her way over

"Okay" she smiled as her hand rested on her stomach

I brought us back over to the room and sure enough everyone was packing up, people were helping their pregnant lady's up and we made our way over to our mat, the ball was put away and Nat's bag was sat back in the middle of the mat. Janice wobbled over to us with her husband and a smile in her face.