Chapter 2 - The Unfortunate Turnabout
The due date of childbirth came closer and it made Gregory incredibly nervous, perhaps even more than his wife. They had decided on a name together, however, it took a while for them to decide. Gregory had gone from one bookshop to the other to find books on boy's names. He had never imagined himself surrounded by baby boy name books, but here the two of them were. Gregory was the one that had proposed the name 'Miles' and after some time of thinking, he and Jennifer had decided it would fit their boy perfectly. They loved the definition of the polished name: soldier and merciful. He would be their confident little boy of whom they were proud of.
Jennifer sat on the couch, reading a magazine Gregory bought for her the other day. She had already a few weeks of maternity leave and she enjoyed it. Of course, it did hurt now and then but she knew it was totally worth it. She would sometimes just walk into the little room and look around. Everything was already there, waiting to be used. The crib was near the window, and the dresser which she had painted, stood next to it. Also, Gregory spend a whole Saturday on giving the walls a new fresh color. The room was ready. She was ready.
Her feeling was right, the next day's evening she kept feeling excruciating pain and she felt some water in her sweatpants. Contractions followed each other rapidly.
'Greg?'
'Hm? What is it, my dear?' Gregory asked her, finished writing and turned around in his chair to face his wife. He saw her clutching her belly. 'Are you alright?!'
'M-my water just broke,' she stated and looked at him with a painful face. Gregory's eyes grew big and he rushed out of the room.
'I get the prepared suitcase, we are going to the hospital immediately!'
At the hospital, Gregory got one of the wheelchairs that were lined up at the entrance and brought his wife towards the obstetrics department.
'Are you alright, honey?' He asked her ten thousand times as he pushed the wheelchair forwards in a fast speed.
'It hurts so much…,' Jennifer moaned and felt some tears filling up her eyes.
'We are almost there,' Gregory tried to reply calmly, but his trembling voice revealed the opposite. He was distressed, as his wife kept groaning. Finally, they arrived at the service desk of the ward and the nurse looked up from her computer.
'My wife is in labor, please, call a doctor!' he told her, slightly in panic.
'What is her name, sir?' she asked him.
'Jennifer Edgeworth.' The nurse looked up her name in the computer.
'Yes, I see that her due that is three days from now. I will call a doctor immediately to prepare childbirth.'
As she had said, she called one of the doctors who came as quickly as he could.
'We will bring you to one of the rooms, Mrs. Edgeworth. We will get everything ready,' the doctor explained to the moaning Jennifer and then turned towards Gregory. 'Please, follow me.'
Gregory followed the doctor in one of the rooms where another nurse was already waiting.
'We need to get you onto this bed, madam. Can you stand? Yes, I will help.' She carefully helped Jennifer to stand up, who still kept expressing the pain she felt. Gregory helped her as well and sighed when she finally lay down on the special bed.
'We will change your clothes and then bring you to the operation room when you have more dilation.' Again, both helped to change Jennifer's clothes and she laid down on the bed.
Gregory got her some water and handed it to her after the nurse left.
'It will be alright. Don't worry, sweetheart.' She nodded, as she closed her eyes. He kept sitting next to her, holding her hand for the next half an hour.
'G-Greg?' Jennifer turned her head towards to her husband as she tried not cry.
'What is it?' he asked her concerned and put a hand on her forehand.
'I-I feel him pushing..,' she said and sank back into her bed, exhausted and feeling the pain through her body.
'He-he is coming!' Gregory said anxiously and rushed down the hallway to find a nurse.
Soon after that, Jennifer was brought to the operation room, still holding her husbands' hand tightly.
'It is going to be ok, Jen.' She looked at him and smiled while some tears ran across her cheek.
'Why isn't he coming?!' Jennifer cried and Gregory wiped away the tears from her face. The doctors thought Miles would indeed come to this world in an hour, but that was not what happened. Two hours passed by and Gregory became even more nervous, feeling his hands shake. The doctors had advised a caesarian operation, but suddenly the boy suddenly began pushing more by himself.
Finally, after a difficult delivery of four and a half hours, little Miles James Edgeworth was born. Their little boy was crying his lungs out as the nurse noted down his weight and length.
'It still hurts so much,' Jennifer exclaimed. She wanted to look at her boy who was a few meters away, but her strength was gone. The sweat was dripping from her forehead and her long hair was a mess.
'There seems to be some complications,' the doctor said nervously. 'You lose too much blood. Quickly, Nikki, get the tools back!'
Gregory got a shock, looking from his wife to the doctor, as the medical experts tried to stop the bleeding.
Gregory sat down next to his wife's bed as she held Miles against her. He had almost experienced a heart attack in the operation room. However, this sight of his wife and their healthy son had made up to the chaos earlier. He was glad she was not in pain anymore.
Gregory came closer and his wife looked at him with a wide smile on her face.
'He has your eyes, honey,' Jennifer said and hold on to one of the tiny hands of their boy.
'I will put him back into the crib, he and you both need sleep. Don't worry, I will be here.' He smiled at her, and carefully put Miles in his little bed. He glanced at the calm baby boy and then turned back to his wife.
'Go sleep, Jen.'
'Hm, yes,' she replied and both shared a kiss.
'Gregory, w-wake up!' Jennifer almost shouted, shaking his shoulder. He had fallen asleep.
'What is wrong?!' Gregory blinked his eyes a few times as he looked at Jennifer's scared face.
'I-I…am bleeding…again. It hurts…so…much…,' she moaned. She pushed away the blanket, as she showed him the red colored mattress. He looked at it in shock and then rushed out.
Shortly afterwards, a nurse and their previous doctor followed him into the room. Jennifer was directly brought back to the operation room.
'Wait! What about Miles?!' Gregory asked in panic.
'Do not worry, Mr. Edgeworth. Nurse Kelly with look after him when you leave the room,' the other nurse replied a little anxiously, as she prepared the blood transfusion.
'I.. do not feel.. well,' Jennifer said softly and closed her eyes.
'Stay with me, Jen!' Gregory shouted and squeezed her hand.
'She already lost too much blood, give me the tools now!' The head doctor shouted at the nurse as both the two doctors tried to stop the blood from flowing with a cloth.
'Her heart beat is decreasing! Give her the blood transfusion!' the other one exclaimed with a loud voice after receiving the medical tools from the nurse.
'Jennifer, s-stay with me, p-please, sweetheart,' Gregory cried and Jennifer slowly opened her eyes, which were also filled with tears.
'Miles…Miles…,' she spoke and looked at him worriedly.
'Miles is fine, as you saw. Y-you are the one that must stay with me, now. K-keep listening to me, Jen.' She closed her eyes again, as he kept talking to her.
'Quick! NOW!' The head doctor kept looking at how Jennifer's heartbeat was decreasing each second.
'She keeps bleeding!' The other doctor replied and Gregory looked at him in horror.
'Sweetheart, stay… stay with me!' He held her hand tightly. The machine that showed Jennifer's heart beat rate suddenly started beeping.
'You stop her from bleeding!' The head doctors said as rushed to the side of the bed. 'I will reanimate her!' Gregory was pushed aside and watched his wife as her chest was being pushed down. He had stood there at the side in total shock, staring at the lovely women he fell in love with who was now on the edge of death. The tears ran down his face.
His Jennifer, his beautiful wife. He had lost her that day.
This was the first dark chapter in the life story of the Edgeworths. Unfortunately for father and son, more tragedy was destined to follow.
A/N
I have no idea how deliveries really work, but I have heard and read enough to come up with this. It was extremely difficult to write, I must admit ;) This chapter is very sad though :(
