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Chapter 2
Both Jac and Jonny had been in Neonatal Intensive Care before she had been a Senior House Officer for a traumatic 12 week stint at the beginning of her career and for him NICU was the placement that as a student nurse had secured in his mind that paediatrics was not the area of nursing for him. Now they were both back in NICU sitting across an incubator staring at their tiny daughter, watching her tiny chest rise and fall with every ventilator generated breath, every so often darting an eye towards the monitors taking observation of the numbers that showed that their baby was putting up a good fight.
"Do you need me to go to yours and get you some stuff? Mr T said they are keeping you in for a few days" Jonny asked being the first to break the silence as he always was, "leave it for today I have toiletries in my locker, I think tonight we should just stay here, we need to be here" she furiously wiped a tear that fell onto her cheek, he took her hand and squeezed it giving a weak smile. Tonight was their first night as a family and although neither had said it aloud they knew it could just as easily be their last.
"Have you had a chance to think about names?" he asked, he had questioned numerous times during the last 6 months he had always had the question shrugged off but now he knew she would have to have considered it "yes she is called Freya" Jac stated matter of factly letting a tiny smile onto her lips at the memory of the baby girl from years back "Hello little miss Freya" Jonny said reaching into the incubator window "do you like the name your mummy gave you" he said smiling over at Jac, she gazed in amazement at her tiny daughter.
As the night progressed on Jac and Jonny remained keeping a vigil by Freya's side, Jonny had only left a couple of times to use the bathroom and reply to well wishers texts, Jac however had remained swatting away the numerous nurses who had attempted to get her back to maternity. Jonny saw how exhausted she looked and the pain that etched across her face every so often now the epidural was wearing off "Jac you really should go back to maternity and rest you only gave birth eight hours ago." he stated matter of factly preparing himself for the tirade she would follow with "shut up" she said " can you please just shut up, I am staying right here so you need to either deal with that or go away and leave us alone, we don't need you anyway" she hissed, he looked over at her knowing that she was just putting up her normal Naylor wall of defence "I know your having a rough time Jac in fact I don't think anyone knows as much as I do but in case you hadn't realised I do care about you and would like you to stay well for Freya's sake so all I am saying is just for today I think you should let go of your own bloody minded ness and allow yourself to be looked after" he kept his voice low not wanting to upset Jac anymore than he was sure he had " I am staying here that is final" she said. The atmosphere surrounding the incubator was the usually frostiness thebtwo had become acquainted with unable to be nice to each other for even their daughters sake. The long night they had instore was suddenly feeling a lot longer and a lot more uncomfortable
