Zoe Donovan Boxed Set Books 4-6 by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Monday, April 14

I was sorry my dad had decided he wasn’t going to be able to act as Mom’s birthing coach but thrilled to have the opportunity to do so myself. We’d gotten a late start, though, and while Mom was due to deliver in less than two weeks, we still had several classes to complete. Anyssa had agreed to let us attend the Monday class as well as our regularly scheduled Wednesday one so we might be able to catch up and gain all the information we needed for a painless and stress-free birth. The Monday class was held in the morning, and the clientele for that session was quite a bit different from the evening one. For one thing, the women tended to be younger. A lot younger. I recognized several women I’d gone to high school with, including the little sister of one of my closest friends. I hugged her and congratulated her on her impending delivery, all the while wondering what sort of insanity would make a twenty-year-old honor student want to be a mother at such a young age.

“Do you know if Anyssa has ever had any children?” Mom whispered to me as I massaged her belly and encouraged her to breathe.

“I don’t think so. Why do you ask?”

“It’s just that she keeps talking about our bodies as temples and birth as a spiritual experience, but not once has she mentioned hemorrhoids, gas, or stretch marks.”

I laughed. “I guess she does have an idealized approach to the whole thing, but I’ve heard good things from some of the women I know who have taken her class.”

“She talks about breathing slowly as our bodies release our offspring, but I seemed to remember quite a bit of screaming as the doctor had to pry you from your comfy napping place.”

“Mine was a difficult birth?”

“It was. The doctor joked about the fact that you were snug and cozy and didn’t seem to want to come out into the cold, hard world.”

“Maybe Harper won’t have the separation issues I did,” I teased.

“Here’s hoping,” Mom said as she turned onto her side as instructed.

“Did you take classes before I was born?”

“No. The home for rich unwed women my parents sent me to embraced a more traditional approach.”

“Traditional?”

“Drugs. Lots and lots of beautiful drugs.”

“Do you plan to use drugs with this birth?”

“I’m hoping not to, hence the class.”

Mom stiffened.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

“Just a twinge.”

“Have you been having a lot of twinges?”

“A few,” Mom admitted.

“Maybe Harper will come early.”

“She can’t come early; we still have four more classes.”

I giggled. “I don’t think she cares about classes. Was I early?”

“Actually,” Mom rolled to the other side, as instructed by the group leader, “you were early. Five days early, if I remember correctly.”

“If Harper comes five days early, she’ll be born before Easter. Maybe we should get her an Easter basket just in case.”

“She’d only be a day or two old. She won’t care about a basket,” Mom pointed out.

“Maybe not, but it will be her first Easter.

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