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I was amazed at the energy Keavy possesed. We were 2 weeks from the birth of our child and she was still working. I loved seeing her in her blue scrubs, covered by the white lab coat with the nametag that read DR. McLean. She loved her job and was trying to squeeze all the moments she could in before she took a well deserved maternity break.
I was in my recording studio tinkering with a song I had written when my cell went off, the frantic voice on the other end introduced herself as a candy striper at the hosptial and informed me that Keavy had gone into labour. I rushed out of the studio and upstairs to grab the suitcase that Keavy had packed 3 months ago.
My baby was going to be born.
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"Baby you have to concentrate on your breathing." I rubbed her back and tried to keep her on track with her breathing that we had learned in Lamaze class.
"Alex it hurts, hurts really bad" Keavy moaned between contractions. She had been in labour for 3 hours and she was already 4 cm dialated. The nurse had informed her that she could have an epidural if she wanted but Keavy was adament about having our baby naturally. She swore that the epidural would drug our baby and she didn't want that.
I saw my mother and Howie standing in the doorway and waved them in.
"How is she?" Howie asked as he looked at Keavy's saoked forehead and white face.
"Howie I am here, ask me, Alex is not the one who is trying to push a basketball out of a golf hole." she wailed, clutching my hand and breathing through her contraction.
We all laughed and my mother smoothed the damp wash cloth over Keavy's face..
"Hun your parents are on the next flight out, they probably won't be here for the birth but they will definatly be here for the celebration.
"Yank, baby I need you to hold me, let me lean on you, my back is aching" Kevy cried, so I sat in front of her and let her head rest on my chest as we breathed. "it will all be over soon, just think how good it is going to feel to hold our baby" I kissed her forehead and continued masaging her back.
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"ALex I can't" Keavy cried out, her face streaked with tears. The doctor had told us that in five minutes we were going to start to push and Keavy was petrified. I could see it in her face.
"Shhh, in a few minutes this will all be over and our miracle will be in our arms" I stroked her face and kissed her.
"Yank, take me home, carry me out of here and take me home, I changed my mind I don't want to do this"
"Okay Keavy we need you to push" the doctor ordered.
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"OH MY GOD....EMERALD...I can see our baby's face, oh my god..oh my god" I was holding her hand tightly as I drank in the beauty of the moment. Our baby was staring up at me.
"One last push and you can see your baby" the nurse told Keavy.
Keavy dropped her chin to her chest and pushed hard "Oh my, bring out the guards! This baby is going to break some hearts. It's a girl" the doctor announced as he cleaned out our daughter's passageways.
"Keavy, open your eyes beautiful, oh my god...we have a daughter" I kissed Keavy over and over again and as the nurse laid our daughter on Keavy's chest and she started to cry as she kissed her I knew that this was a miracle, god had granted us a miracle and I would spend my life thanking him.
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I watched as Keavy stroked our daughter's head as she fed her. I reached for the camera and took a picture, a picture that stands on our shared high boy.. Keavy's hair fell in her face as our daughter suckled her breast, the look of complete peace on Keavy's face was one I had never seen before and I had to capture that moment forever. "Come here Daddy, your daughter is full and is drifting off again and I think we should name her so she knows that she is a member of our family.
I sat on the bed and stroked our daughter's fine red hair. Her chubby face was precious and her long fingers seemed to reach for mine. "Baby I like the name we picked last week" Our first quiet moment as a family was interrupted as our parents walked into the room, crying and anxious to see their first grandchild.
"She is beautiful, an angel, looks exactly like Keavy" they all crowded around her and were talking over one another.
"Hello, what about us, we were the ones that had to go through all of this" I whined.
"Get used to it, now that the baby is here noone is going to pay attention to you" keavy's mom teased.
"So what is our grandbaby's name?" My mother asked as she gently stroked the baby's tiny feet.
"Saffron Denise Margaret McLean" Keavy leaned into me and as I wrapped
my
arms around here and watched our parents fussing with Saffie I closed
my
eyes and was content with the moment.
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