As the nurse took her away to clean her up, I thought about what had happened in the last god knows how many hours.
"Nathan wake up!" I said, frantically shaking him. It was 3am and I was panicking!
"What?" He said, waking up, he looked down "Did you wet yourself?"
I shook my head
"Then what's tha- Ohhhh shit"
"Yeah, shit" I say "Call an ambulance"
He nods and reaches for his phone, while I change into some of his trackies and a baggy t-shirt. I went into Siva's room as it was closest and tried to wake him up.
"Seev…. Sivaaaa….. SIVA WAKE UP!"
He jumped and woke up
"What?"
"My water broke, there's an ambulance on the way and Nathan's getting dressed, can you wake up the others and meet us at the – OOWWWW!"
I screamed, clutching my stomach. Siva quickly sat up and put an arm round me and rubbed my back, thinking it would help.
"Errrmm… Breathe!" He said "In and out, in and out, in and out"
"WHAT ARE YOU A FUCKING PARROT!" I screamed at him
"Sorry"
Nathan then ran in
"What's going on!"
"I think she's having a contraction" Siva said.
Nathan sat next to me, but by then it had finished
"You okay?" He asked me
I shook my head "Those fucking hurt"
Siva looked out the window
"Ambulance is here" He said.
"Come on babe" Nathan said, grabbing my hand
I took it and followed him out the room
"SIVA GET THE BOYS UP AND MEET US AT THE HOSPITAL!" I called, before walking out the door and into the ambulance.
At the hospital I kept having contractions and was swearing and screaming at everyone. Except the doctors and nurses. I tried to be nice considering one of them would be responsible for bring my baby into this world.
About 3 hours later a nurse came in and told me to start pushing. I shook my head
"I'm scared"
Nathan grabbed my hand and kissed my forehead.
"It's gonna be okay baby" He said "Soon this is gonna be over and we're gonna have a beautiful baby girl"
"Errm, only 2 other people can be in here with you during the delivery" Said the nurse.
All the boys said they wanted to stay but I grabbed Max's hand just because he was closest and the others left.
I was in so much pain as I started to push. I can't even describe the pain. Nathan and Max looked like they was about to scream themselves, I was squeezing their hands so tightly. Nathan was trying to be brave by saying things like
"Almost there baby" and "It's okay baby"
And Max, well Max was just going
"Hurry up and get this child out of you! Your killing my hand here!"
Finally, we heard a cry and the nurse held up our baby. And she took it to be cleaned up.
She brought her back in a blanket and gave her to me, I looked down at her and smiled. Nathan sat next to me on the bed and put an arm around me and one on our baby girl.
I look at him
"Hey daddy" I say
"Hey mummy"
The rest of the boys and Jayne came in and stood around the bed looking at her.
"She's gorgeous" Says Jay "Well done Katie"
I look up at him and smile
"Thanks bird"
I look at Nathan
"Wanna hold you daughter?"
He smiled and nodded and I handed her to him.
"Hey baby girl" He said in a baby voice.
"Names?" Said Tom
"Hadn't even thought about it" I said, laughing "Nath, what do you think we should call her?"
He looked down at her.
"What about Brooklyn? Brooklyn Marie Sykes"
"Yeah, Suits her" Said Siva, who was now holding her
I smiled "Brooklyn Marie Sykes it is then"
Nathan sat next to me on the bed properly and I snuggled into him.
"You did it babe" He whispered, watching as they boys passed Brooklyn to each other.
I shook my head and look up at him.
"We did it"
