Lydia: "Ow! That's not a little."
Dr. Borne: "Well, you've got a big baby in here. I just have to move some things around." By which she means removing the cord from around the baby's neck—not something that she wants to broadcast, but it was probably the reason for the baby's distress. Here he comes." Then, Lydia feels a tug. "He's out. Let's suction his mouth and lungs." She telegraph's the baby's sex.
Baby boy Kensington: They do that and the baby starts to cry almost immediately—very loudly. "Waa! Waaa! Waa!"
Robert: "Good Lord! The kids got actor's lungs." He says in wonder.
Lydia: "That's wonderful! Please let me see him." She asks anxiously.
Dr. Borne: "You won't believe his size." Dr. Borne brings the not yet completely swaddled baby around the curtain to show Lydia and Robert.
Robert: Robert sees his son's big balls and says while pumping his arm. "He's huge! That's my boy!" Dad's are always happy to continue the bloodline.
Dr. Borne: Knowing what Robert is alluding to, she says. "Robert, I meant his height and weight. He's got to be at least seven pounds."
Lydia: "Oh Robert, he's beautiful!" Their baby boy has a rare moment of sleeping [(3) right].
Baby Boy Kensington: Just then, their big beautiful baby boy pees on Robert's scrub pants lower leg. "Waa! Waaa! Waa!"
Dr. Borne: "And it works!" She says laughing as Robert frowns cutely.
Lydia: "Oh Robert Dear,... Ha ha ha!" Lydia laughs. "... he doesn't know what he's doing."
Dr. Borne: "Do you want to hold him Robert?"
Robert: "Absolutely! Come to me my little man." Dr. Borne hands Robert his son after putting a diaper over his pee pee—the baby's pee pee, that is. Robert kisses his baby's cheeks. Then Robert leans the baby down toward Lydia and she kisses their son.
Dr. Borne: "All I can say is it's a good thing we delivered him today. If he had gone full term, you would have had a heck of a time delivering him vaginally." Lydia nods. "Robert, how big were you as a baby?"
Robert: "We'll have to ask Mum. Lydia, how big were you?"
Lydia: "I think I was six pounds something."
Dr. Borne: "We have to do some standard baby tests on the little guy and then we'll bring him to your room in an incubator so Lydia can hold him." She nods and the operating nurse takes the baby from Robert and puts him in a bassinette and does the Apgar and other baby tests. "Okay, let's get Lydia sutured up. More suction, rinse, suction again. Okay, now I'll give you a pretty little bikini scar, Lydia."
Lydia: "Okay." She says sleepily.
Robert: "Lydia, are you feeling alright?"
Lydia: "I think I'm just woozy." Then Lydia goes unconscious and her heart rate starts to fluctuate.
Robert: "Doctor, what's happening?" Robert asks with alarm.
Dr. Borne: "Robert move!" She says forcefully and Robert does—standing out of the way nervously worrying about Lydia. The nurse pulls away the curtain so they can get to Lydia's chest to shock her heart if they need to. Then, she looks down to look at Lydia's abdomen that has reddish marks on it in the shape of fingers on it. "Oh God! she's allergic to the latex gloves! Everybody take off your gloves, get the other kind." They do. "Give her a dose of epinephrine in her IV." They do. "Lydia's heart rate starts to stabilize."
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"Love & Friendship", a new original story by Gratiana Lovelace, 11/26/12
RomanceWho is to say where friendship ends and love begins? And is one preferable to the other? Those in love would say, yes. Those who are merely friends, might say no. But in reality, can a man and a woman remain friends when they find that their fr...
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