The Perfect Family Ch.4
(Esme's POV)
Last night was incredible. Emmett only cried three times during the night. The last time was only ten minutes ago and I got up with him. I figured out he just needed a diaper change.
After changing his diaper I wasn't tired so I headed downstairs with Emmett in my arms. I coo softly to him as I sit in the chair facing the glass wall to the east to watch the sunrise. A sunrise to start a new day and begin my new life today with my baby. Right before the sun rises I feel a hand on my shoulder. I look up and Carlisle is smiling down at me.
"Why aren't you in bed?" he asks softly.
"I couldn't sleep after changing Emmett's diaper" I say and he nods.
He pulls another chair next to mine and holds his hand out for mine. I place mine in his and we watch the sunrise together. Shortly after the sun rises Emmett wakes up crying. Carlisle gets up and heads to the kitchen and a few minutes later he returns with a bottle.
"Carlisle is there any way I can breastfeed?" I ask him as I feed our son.
"There is a way. It's a series of shots. The shots are full of estrogen and other hormones you would produce when you're pregnant which would make you produce breast milk" He says and I nod.
"Do you mind if I do it?" I ask nervously.
"Esme it's your body if that's what you want I'm fine with it" He says and I smile.
"I will call El and he can bring the beginning shots with him today." he says and I nod in excitement.
Carlisle heads upstairs and I burp Emmett before taking the bottle to the kitchen. Afterwards I also head upstairs.
I knock on Carlisle's office door and he tells me to come in.
"Do you mind watching Em while I take a shower?" I ask.
"Of course not love" He says and holds his arms out for him.
I hand Em to him and leave the room. I make my way to Carlisle's and I's room and to our master bathroom.
(Carlisle's POV)
I sit down in my office chair and rock Emmett. The gurgles and coos at me and I smile.
"Hi sweet boy." I coo to him and run a finger over his cheek.
He gurgles at me and I smile at him. I turn on my record player in my office and I rock side to side with him. He starts to yawn and I coo to him softly until he falls asleep. I sit in my office and close my own eyes and listen to the smooth jazz I turned on.
I'm right about to fall asleep when the doorbell rings. I get up and make my way downstairs. I answer the door and El, Carmen, Tanya, Irina, Kate and Garret are standing on the other side of the door. I motion them in and step to the side. They walk in and the girls gush over Em. I close the door once their all in.
"Hi guys thanks for coming" I say and they nod. "It's our pleasure Carlisle. And anyway when Carmen heard you adopted she couldn't wait to meet him" El says and I nod.
Carmen comes over and looks down at Em. I hand him over to her and she carefully takes him out of my arms.
"You're not going to break him Carmen" I chuckle seeing her holding him like he was glass.
"I haven't held that many babies and I don't think your wife would be too happy with me if the one time I'm not so cautious with a baby is with hers and I accidently hurt him" Carmen says.
"Carmen Carlisle is right Em is not going to break" Esme says coming down stairs in yoga pants and at shirt with wet hair.
"Esme" El greets and goes and hugs her.
"You look good" he says and tilts her chin up to look at her eyes.
"Thanks" Esme says and pulls back.
"Just one night with him and the light is back in your eyes and the dark circles are almost gone' El says and kisses her forehead. El always acted like an older brother to Esme.
"Should we start on Em's room? "I ask and el nods as does Garret.
"We'll be down soon love" I say and kiss Esme before I head upstairs.
Once in the room we were going to convert into a nursery El and Garret start to move furniture while I look at the paint colors Esme and I bought.
"We should put together the furniture in the middle of the room and paint around it" El says as he notices me looking between the furniture and paint.
I nod and we get started on assembling the various pieces of furniture. With their vampire speed the furniture was done within an hour.
"So what's the plans for color?" garret asks while getting the painting supplies.
"Esme wants the north wall painted the compatible cream, on the south wall she wants it to be painted Fawn bridle and then the east and west she wants the drizzle." I say remembering Esme's plan yesterday.
"OK I'll get started on the drizzle, garret do you want do the fawn bridle and Carlisle you take the compatible cream" El suggests.
"Fine by me" I say d garret nods. We each grab our paint can and move to our designated wall. Half way through Esme walks in.
"Looking good boys. Carlisle I made brunch when you ready to eat" She says.
"Ok love I'll be down after I finish this wall" I say. Esme looks at me in disapproval.
"Carlisle go eat. We ca finish painting" El says.
"I'm fine guys I'm not that hungry" I say but my stomach growls angrily and I blush.
"Go" El says and I nod and place my brush down and follow Esme out of the room.
We walk downstairs and to the kitchen. Esme pushes me into chair and places a plate in front of me full of food. She sits down across from me. "Thank you love" I say and she nods. Half way though our meal Em starts to cry. Kate comes carrying him in. "I think someone is hungry" She says and Esme gets up to prepare a bottle. I hear a soft agreement and look up. "I can feed him Kate" Esme says. "Esme its fine I can do it. You need to finish eating" Kate argues back. "Love come let our family enjoy our son" I say and Esme sighs but comes to the table and sits back down. I reach my hand across for her. I give her a comforting squeeze. "He's fine our family aren't going to hurt him" I say and she nods and starts to eat again. After we're done I do the dishes to let Esme go back to the front room with the ladies. After the dishes I plan to head upstairs but I stop when I see el and garret in the front room sitting by here mates.
"Paints done?" I ask.
"Yes. It just needs to dry and then we will move the furniture into place" El says with a smirk. I nod and sit next to Esme who leans into me.
"Esme we could do your shots now if you want" El suggest after a few minutes of silence.
"Okay" Esme says. She stands up and pulls on my hand. I get up and we walk to my office after El grabs his medical bag. I clear a spot on my desk.
"Esme take a seat on the desk" EL says.
Esme sits on my desk and motions for me to stand near her. When I get closer to her she parts her legs for me to stand in front of her. I stand in front of her and she wraps her arms around me. I rub her back soothingly knowing she had trypanophobia, which is a fear of needles and injections.
Out of the corner of my eye I see El turn his back so Esme doesn't see the needles. I rub Esme's back when she whimpers.
"Shh love its ok. We don't need to go through with this." I say and El looks up.
"No Carlisle I'm not going to back out because of my fear. Emmett isn't going to get as much nutrients as he could on bottles. Breast milk is the best option" Esme says and I nod.
"If you go into a panic attack at any time I'm stopping. If we need to stop after one or two it won't affect your body you will just have increased hormones for a while." El says and Esme nods.
El grabs the tray and I see four shots. Esme isn't paying attention she already has her face barried into my chest.
"Shh I got you love" I say softly as she flinches at the cool alcohol wipe. El looks at m and I nod my head and he injects the first one. Esme whimpers softly and I just rub her back. El quickly gets them all and pulls back.
"Your done my love" I say and Esme nods but doesn't let go of me.
"In the next few days you're going to start getting side effects. Nausea, mood swings, tender breasts. You also may feel dizzy. By next week your breast will start to grow and at that point your nipples will hurt but you need to take a soft cloth and just roll and pull them to make them harder. You want do this so Em's hungry mouth doesn't. And by two weeks you should be able to start to feed him "el says and Esme nods.
"Do you want to rest?" I ask and she nods. I go to pull back but she wraps her legs around my waist. I pick her up and carry her to our room. I lay her in our room before going to the nursery to help el and garret place the furniture. After we're done Kate brings Emmett in.
"He just feel asleep" he says and I nod and take him.
I change his diaper before placing him in his crib. I turn the baby monitor before we leave the room.
"We're going to get going do you guys can rest." Carmen says and I nod.
"thank you for all the help" I say and go around and hug them.
"Don't forget to send pictures" Carmen says and I nod.
I watch them get to their cars before closing the doors. I turn the downstairs baby monitors on before going to watch TV. Half way though the movie I was watching Em's cries come through the baby monitor. I stand up and head upstairs as quick as possible so Esme does not wake up.
"What's wrong baby?" I coo to him as I pick him up.
I check his diaper first before coming to the conclusion he was hungry. I walk down stairs with him and the kitchen where I proceed to make a bottle one handed. I give him the bottle and he suckled happily. I grab a burp rag and head back to the front room to finish the movie.
After Em is down with his bottle I burp him and just hold him since he was content in being in my arms. After an hour he falls asleep on my chest.
I kiss his forehead and just let him lay there as I watch a new medical show on the discovery channel. After the show is done I see it's close to 5 pm which meant I needed to start dinner. I lay Em down in his sleeper in the living room.
I go into the kitchen and peer into the fridge. I see a pack of pork chops and pull them out along with some Brussel sprouts. I get the Brussel sprouts going before putting a shake n bake coating on the pork and throwing them into the oven.
After checking the Brussel sprouts I go back into the front room. After awhile I go back into the kitchen to flip the pork chops and turn the hat down on the Brussel sprouts. Right as I finished Emmett woke up in need of a diaper change.
"You're stinky little man" I say as my face scrunches up with the smell.
I quickly take him upstairs and change his diaper before looking at the time and seeing dinner needed to be taken out of the oven. I head back down stairs with Em and set him down in the rocker with some toys and run back to the kitchen and turn the oven and stove off and pull the pork out of the oven.
I let the food set for a few minutes while I check on Em. Once I'm satisfied he's sleeping I head upstairs to get Esme. She's still sound asleep curled up in the middle of the bed with my pillow clutched in her arms. I gently get on the bed and start to kiss her neck up to her jaw. She starts to squirm before moaning and opening her eyes.
"Carlisle" she says sleepily.
"Time to get up my love. Dinner is done" I say softly before kissing her forehead. I help her up and we head downstairs.
"MM it smells amazing Carlisle" Esme says as we get to the bottom of the stairs.
"I made shake n bake pork chops and steamed Brussel sprouts" I say and Esme's stomach growls and she blushes.
I chuckle and we quickly make our way into the kitchen so we don't wake up Em. I have Esme sit and I make our plates.
We say grace before we start eat. After dinner Esme goes into the living room to get Em who was crying while I put the dishes in the dish washer. I join them in the living room. After Emmett is content again Esme puts a movie in and we jut relax as a family on the couch and watch the movie.
(Two weeks later/Esme's POV)
The last two weeks I have been following Elaezar's recommendations. Two days ago I started leaking and today I wanted to try to get Em to latch on to my breast and drink.
"Ready love?" Carlisle ask softly as he brings a crying Em into the room. I nod my head and take of my shirt and pull up my under shirt.
Carlisle hands Em to me and I bring him to my chest and guide him to my breast
Carlisle wraps me in the breast feeding wrap. He sit next to me as I try to get Em to suckle.
"Come on bay boy. I know you're hungry" I coo to him as he whimpers and squirms.
"Give it time love" Carlisle says and rubs my back soothingly. After a few minutes Carlisle gets on his knees next to me and try's to help Em start to suckle.
"Come on son. I know you hungry" Carlisle says softly.
Carlisle squeezes my breast so milk come out and he puts a drop on his finger and places it in Em's mouth.
Em suckle son Carlisle's finger greedily. Carlisle gently remove his finger and replaces it with my nipple
. Em cautiously start to suckle at firs but after finding out how to do it he start to suckle greedily. I smile and kiss Carlisle.
