This is Regina and Emma's first baby together and Emma is worried about raising the baby properly, but Regina is there to guide and comfort her.
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The crying just barely penetrated into their deep sleep, but still, everyone jerked awake just at the same time.
Emma looks towards her alarm clock and notices that just two hours had past since the baby had fallen back to sleep. She groans back into her pillow before she tries to designates who's turn it is to check on the baby.
"Henry! It's your turn"
"No it's not, I feed her last time"
Regina rolls over in the bed still half sleep.
"Dear, it's your turn. You know Henry and I did it last time"
Emma knew it was her turn, but she just wanted to sleep a little longer.
"Yeah." She sighs in exhaustion. "I know."
Emma half throws and half shoves the sheets off of her as she drags her feet to the baby's room.
Right on her door is painted half way, 'Raven'. Only half way, because while Emma and Henry were painting her name, it was during Regina's pregnancy, which means they were on call 24/7, and with the baby, they never had time to finish.
Despite her groggy state and cranky attitude Emma walks into the room with a chipper look on her face and a bright tone in her voice.
She noticed a while back that babies are more intuitive than Regina when she thinks you're hiding something, but mainly it's because she just loves her baby panda.
She knows she isn't hungry because she was feed only two hours ago, she checked her forehead for a fever, nothing. The only thing left was her diaper.
Well, she checked, and that was it.
Emma was never too good at changing diapers, the smell always made her dizzy. In fact, whenever it was her turn she always made an excuse to give the job to someone else. But there were no more excuses for her to use now and she did not want to make more of a mess than there already was, so she did the only thing that was left to do.
She picked up the baby (always with a smile on her face), set her down on the changing table, took a deep breath, and
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called on her wife.
"Regina! I need your help, it's important"
Only moments later Regina practically raced into the room with Henry right behind her, expecting there to be a situation.
"What is it, Emma? Please tell me, Raven is okay"
"Yeah, Ma, what happened, it sounded serious"
Emma heard the fear in their voices and she feels bad once she remembers the real reason why she called her in there.
"Uhh, no...it's uhh,...it's her diaper, it needs to be changed. And I don't know how to change it."
She said the last part a little soft that it was almost lost in the wind, but Regina and Henry still caught it. Henry snickers, but sees him Ma's signature, "I'm uncomfortable" neck rub, but he just walks out the room, too tired to do anything else and knows that his Mom will take care of it. As for Regina, she's just relieved that the baby is okay. She understands how changing a diaper for the first time is, changing Henry's for the first time wasn't too easy for her. She rubs Emma's back for comfort as she smiles down at Raven.
"It's ok, Dear, I know how stressful changing a diaper can be"
Regina grabs a new diaper, the wipes, baby power, and starts to undress the baby.
"Henry was always a squirmy little baby."
As Regina talks, she begins to change her diaper as if she's done it for years, well maybe not years, but it's still longer time than what's on Emma's record.
"And the crying did not make things any easier. But, Emma, you're not going to hurt her."
Every since Raven was born, even before Regina got pregnant, Emma always had this fear that she'll mess everything up if they ever had another baby, which is why she was always grateful for the way Regina raised Henry. He was polite, considerate, he's the last bit of chivalry left in the world, the exact opposite of what Emma was at his age. She had no idea on how to take care of another human being. All she ever had to worry about was herself for the first 28 years of her life. Even when she found Henry it wasn't this stressful, he was ten when he showed up at her apartment, and he traveled to Boston all on him own, he was like a tiny adult. But this... she...Raven is so small and new, and she was worried that the tiniest thing will ruin her.
Emma already took the greatest precautions when it came to Raven, Emma saw it to be necessary, others thought it ridiculous; pillows around her car seat when they go out, covers on all possibly openings to prevent drafts so she wouldn't get a cold (even during the summer), and she even built a maze from one room to another so the baby wouldn't get into anything. But Regina notices and she knows why, she felt the same way with Henry, still does sometimes, but she knows that she tries her best, even when she wasn't doing so well. But that's all there is to it in parenting, and if anyone always tried their best, it was Emma, and from that, she knew Raven would grow up to be and do great in this world.
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