Chapter 10

2018 Maternity Ward, Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, Seattle

"Hey Cristina!" April, with a pink teddy bear that is almost half as tall as herself in her arms, squeezed herself into the room and greet Cristina happily. "Hi Kayla! Hello! Hello! See what Aunt April got you! A huge teddy bear! You like it? You like it? Aww I miss the time when Harriet is this small!"

"She haven't open her eyes yet. She can see nothing." Cristina snapped and rolled her eyes at the big teddy bear. It's not that the teddy is not cute… Actually, it's adorable, but how can she bring that home? Tie it on the roof of the car?

"But she can feel it?" April winked and put down the teddy bear. She sat down by Cristina's bedside and asked, "How do you feel?"

"Light."

"I will take that as great." The red-head shrugged, apparently she has already got used to the sarcasm.

"Rounds now Yang. Sit somewhere else Kepner." Alex marched into the room and picked up baby Kayla from her crib.

"Hi princess. Feeling good today huh?" He put a finger next to her cheek, and she immediately started sucking his finger. Alex couldn't control but let out a fatherly smile.

"Her sucking reflex is normal, and her blood test is within normal range. A very healthy baby girl." Alex placed the baby in Cristina's arms. Although it is not her first time to hold a new-born, it is so different when the new-born is her baby daughter. She seems so fragile, like she would break into a thousand pieces if she was held a bit harder.

"Don't be afraid, babies are stronger than you can imagine." Like he can read what Cristina was thinking, Alex encouraged her friend to take the baby. He slowly let go of Kayla, and Cristina hold her in her arms. People always say that being a mother is a magical feeling, all of a sudden your world revolves around one person only, now Cristina knows that is so true. Honestly holding her daughter is better than holding a beating heart.

"Have you start lactating yet?"

"Can you not ask me these kind of questions when I am snuggling with my daughter?" Cristina rolled her eyes and answered. "Yes, I have. The nurse helped me store some of it already."

"Well, good! You are both doing really well, I think I can discharge you two tomorrow." Alex smiled and poked Kayla's cheek one last time before he leave for another patient.

"Wait, why do you wear your scrub cap when you are not scrubbing in?"

"Because somebody gave me a freaking bald spot!" Alex pulled away his cap and screamed. A small patch of hair is clearly missing on his head, April blurted out loudly and quickly took a picture with her phone.

"Who?"

"You don't remember?"

"I was in labour yesterday, I can barely spell my name."

"Erm, Bailey told us that, when you are in labour, you kind of freaked out a bit and grabbed Alex's hair as leverage. So it's probably you who did it." April said before starting a whole new round of laughing.

"Oh… well, I am sorry." Cristina's face was completely red due to embarrassment. She never thought she would be one of those hysterical pregnant ladies who pulled off their doctor's hair.

"Forget it. If it's not because of my adorable god-daughter, you would be dead by now."

"Language!" Cristina quickly covered little Kayla's ears and frowned.

"Hi. How are my favourite ladies doing today?" Burke walks into his wife and daughter's room with a huge grin on his face. He kissed the two ladies gently and asked.

"Fine. Kayla is eating, a lot, Alex said she is very healthy and can probably go home with us in a few days. Oh and she just changed her first diaper."

"Damn! I missed the first diaper! Did you record it?"

"She didn't but I did. Check your email" Meredith opened the door of the washroom and waved. "She said it will cause mental problems for Kayla, but I thought you would definitely want to see it so I recorded it anyway. Derek still watches the clip of Ellis's first crawling every night before he go to bed."

"Thanks, Mer." Burke quickly logged in to his email account and clicked the video. Listening to her own crying, little Kayla started to cry as well in her crib.

"I told you! It is causing her mental problems! Mer, hand my daughter to me." Cristina cooed her daughter, but Kayla didn't stop crying like she used to do for the past few hours.

"Maybe she is hungry? Or she wants another diaper change?"

"No her diaper is dry… I think she is hungry."

"I will go get the bottle." Burke stood up and walks to the nurse's station. Meredith whipped her phone out from her pocket and found herself a best position for filming.

"What the hell are you doing?" Cristina asked her friend strangely.

"Oh, I am just getting ready for filming. Your mother specifically asked me to do her a favour."

"Since when you started to be on my mother's side? We are not supposed to do as our mothers says."

"Come on… You are going to feed Kayla either way. I promise you won't even notice me filming."

"Whatever. Okay, I am going to feed her now." Cristina took the bottle from Burke and tried to stick it into Kayla's mouth. However, the baby is not cooperating and refused to suck the bottle.

"Hey… I thought you are hungry! It's your food here! Why are you not eating?"

"You are doing it wrong. Give me our daughter." Burke shook his head and take over. Cristina handed him the baby and the bottle begrudgingly. 'Let's see how well you can do.' Cristina thought.

Out of her expectation, the baby stopped crying immediately once she got into Burke's arms. He rocked her gently and slowly placed the bottle beside her mouth. Like she can smell the bottle, Kayla opened her mouth and started sucking the bottle. She must be very hungry by then, as she finished half the bottle in seconds.

"See? I said you are doing it wrong. You held her too low. You should hold her higher and closer to your chest, give her a sense of security, and the bottle should be…" Burke smirked when he saw his wife's defeated pout. It is not often that he could prove himself better than Cristina, of course he wouldn't let this chance slip past him.

"If you are that good, well, maybe you should be responsible to feed her every meal then."

"That's fine with me."

Cristina didn't thought he would agree to this. She thought he would say no to this arrangement and beg her to take the baby… Seeing Burke bonding with their baby daughter so well, she couldn't help but got a bit jealous. Maybe she shouldn't be offering the feeding duty to her husband. She stared at his hands, and try to imitate them in her head.

Burke tried to swallow his smirk as he noticed the way Cristina stared at his hands. Kindly, he offered, "Do you want to try again?"

"Mm… Feeding her is your duty, but, if you really want me to take over for you for a while, um, I guess I can do that." She knows that Burke is trying to make her admit to her failure. If it was before, she would probably be jumping up and down, threatening to bite his head off. But now, with Kayla's presence… Screw it, she would rather be cooing her baby daughter than to win their stupid competitions.

He put Kayla down in her arms gently, and Cristina held her higher than before. She looked at her perfect daughter and grinned. Then she noticed something different.

"Oh my god! Look! She opened her eyes! Oh her eyes are so beautiful! Hi Kayla!" She screamed excited at her discovery. Kayla blinked innocently at her parents.

"Meredith! Did you get this down? Damn! Now I missed the "first time she opened her eyes" too!" Burke asked anxiously, but Meredith shook her head.

"That's too bad. You can probably see the next one though." Cristina patted her husband's arm with fake sympathy. She couldn't hide her victory smile even she tried.

"I…"

"Ah-hm." Someone knocked on the door angrily. All of them turned their head around and saw an annoyed OB/GYN nurse standing by the door.

"Dr. Yang, please, control the volume of your visitors. We have fragile babies and pregnant moms who can't be frightened here." The nurse rolled her eyes at the three surgeons and said. Before she left the room, she turned around and added, "And I swear to god, if I have to come by this room and tell you all to shut up once again, you will get your ass back to the surgical floor. Don't laugh! I mean it!"

The surgeons pursed up their lips in discontent, but none of them dare to make a noise again, except for baby Kayla who is giggling toothlessly at her mother.