Holiday by Christina Ross

Author:Christina Ross [Ross, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Annihilate Them, Ignite Me, Chance, Unleash Me: Wedding, The Wedding, Skye Warren, lauren blakely, Mona Kasten, Penelope Sky, Jennifer Probst, Emma M. Green, Vivien Summer, Kristen Proby, Colleen Hoover, Karen Hamilton, Helen Hardt, Christina Lauren, Stephenie Meyer, Cynthia Eden, Calendar Girl, J. Kenner, Pepper Winters, Jay Crownover, Cristina Chiperi, Piper Rayne, Tatjana Wagner, meredith wild, Jill Sanders, Marie Force, Barbara Freethy, Megan Harold, Liliana Hart, Meghan March, Audrey Carlan, Maya Banks, Kristen Callihan, Annie Stone, Anna Zaires, Vi Keeland, Annihilate Me, Anna Todd, Bella Andre, Tanja Janz, Katy Evans, Tijan, Sylvia Day, Victoria Quinn, E L James
Publisher: Christina Ross
Published: 2019-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE NEXT MORNING, AFTER a brutal evening of contractions that were now slamming into me every minute, I’d already talked with Kate and Epifania, who’d called to send their best wishes and love, when my doctor arrived to examine me at ten.

“You’re ready,” she said after she examined me.

Alex placed his hand on my shoulder. “She is?” he asked.

“Yes—it’s go time.”

“But how about me?” I said to her in fear. “Who says that I’m ready?”

“I say that you are,” she said with a smile as she stood up. “You’re at ten centimeters. Shall we do this?”

“To be honest, I don’t know whether I’m ready for what’s to come, Dr. Grace.”

“When it’s the first time, no woman is,” she said. “I wasn’t when I gave birth to my first baby. Neither were any of my friends and colleagues when they gave birth to their first children. But guess what? All of us survived, and so will you.”

She turned to look at Alex, Lisa, and Blackwell.

“If you three are going to be in the room with us, I need you to go to the nurse’s station now. They’ll help you wash and suit up properly before you join us. In the meantime, since Jennifer is giving birth here, nurses will come in so we can prep her. None of us has any idea how long this will take, but the baby is coming, so I need you to get moving now.”

Dutifully, all three of them filed out of the room and moved into the nurse’s station. When they left, I asked my doctor to look at me.

“What is it?” she said.

“If there ever comes a moment when I scream out for an epidural, please give me one ASAP.”

“At this point, I’m afraid an epidural is out of the question, Jennifer.”

“Excuse me?”

“You’re so far along, it’s no longer safe to give you one. But you’re not out of luck yet, because Entonox is safe.”

“What in the hell is Entonox?”

“Half oxygen and half nitrous oxide—otherwise known as laughing gas.”

“You expect me to laugh my way through the hell I’m about to endure?”

“I’d rather you do that than cry. So, if you need it, just ask for it, OK?”

“OK...”

She held out her hand to me, and I took it. “We call this a birthing room for a reason. When you arrived here yesterday, we wanted you to get comfortable with your surroundings, which you are at this point. But now this is going to officially become a medical room, so please allow our staff to change the sheets to make sure that everything is hygienic. After the staff is finished and you are properly prepared to give birth, what I need you to do is to lie on the bed.”

I moved toward the bed.

“Not yet,” she said. “Let them get it ready first.”

“I’m sorry,” I said. “I’m not thinking straight. I’m frightened out of my mind.”

“As many first mothers are.”

“And I’m giving birth two weeks early—I’ve said it before to you, but that can’t be good for the baby.

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