Chapter Ten
Nine Months into the pregnacy
Emily sat silently on the couch. She had been experiencing some slight pains, but she didn't think it was anything major. Her doctor had even been telling her how well she had been doing. She lifted the strictness of her bed rest, and told her she could do some light walking around the house. She hadn't been doing to much, but today she just had to clean the house. She now sat with her feet proped up on the couch, breathing through the slight pains.
"Honey," Matt called as he entered from the door.
"Matt," she said, knowing tears where now escaping her eyes.
"You okay babe?" Matt asked, as he knelt down beside her.
"I'm hurting again," she said, as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Okay, I'll call the doctor," Matt said, as he unclipped his cell phone from his belt, and dialed the doctors number.
"You've reached Dr. Jamison's office how can I help you," the recipistist answered.
"Yeah, my girlfriend is nine months pregnant with triplets and she's experiencing pains in her stomach," Matt said, hating the fact that he didn't know what to do for Emily.
"Okay, how far along are the pains?" the recipistist asked.
"Em, how far apart are the pains?" Matt asked.
"Umm...like every couple of minutes," Emily said, gritting her teeth through the pain.
"Every couple of minutes," Matt said.
"Okay, your girlfriend is in labor, you need to get her to the emerency room," the recipistist said.
"Okay," Matt said.
"What did she say?" Emily asked.
"We need to get to the emerency room," Matt said, grabbing the bag he had packed for them a couple of weeks earlier.
Matt helped Emily off the couch, and they made they're way out the door, and to they're car.
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"She's in labor," Cheryl said in to the phone.
"Yeah, umm...look I gotta go, but get here when you can," Matt said before hanging up the phone.
"Em's in labor?" Lia asked.
"Yeah, I'm gonna see if I can get us a little time off to go see her," Cheryl said, as she left for her office.
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"Emily, your dialated eight cenimeters you only have two to go," Dr. Jamison said.
"Okay," Emily said, as Matt held her hand tightly.
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An hour later
"Emily honey we need you to push," the doctor said.
"I am pushing," Emily all but screamed, working on the second baby.
"Look the baby is almost out, one big push should do it for you," the doctor said.
Emily leaned forward and pushed as hard as she could.
"Okay it's a boy," the doctor said, handing the baby off to the nurse.
"Okay Emily, I know your tired, but we got one more left," the doctor said.
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Cheryl paced the hall, while Frank, Duff, and Lia sat staring at the floor. Cheryl saw Matt jogging toward them with a big smile on his face.
"So, what's the verdict?" Chery asked.
"We have three beautiful healthy babies," Matt said, the smile never leaving his face.
"And?" Lia said.
"Two boys and one girl, just like the doctor thought," Matt said.
"Did you name them?" Cheryl asked.
"Umm...kind of, but we want you guys to see them, before we tell you their names," Matt said.
The group followed Matt into Emily's room, and they saw three small seperate roll-away cribs for the babies.
Matt walked over and stood by Emily, who was in and out of sleep.
"Guys we'd like you to meet our newest additions," Matt said.
He grabbed the first baby, and walked over to the group.
"This is Zackery Jacob," Matt said, handing him to Cheryl, who smiled wearily.
Matt walked back over to the babies, and picked up the next one.
"This is Kelly Rose," Matt said, handing her to Lia.
Matt walked over on last time and picked up the last baby.
"This is Matthew Ryan," Matt said, handing him to Frank.
"Isn't that," Chery started but Matt interupted her.
"Yeah, Emily named him, said he needed to be named after his father," Matt said, his smile growing larger.
"Okay, well I want to get a picture of all of us together," Cheryl said, just a nurse was walking into the room.
"I hate to ask, but could you take a picture of all of us?" Matt asked.
They all gathered around Emily, and the nurse snapped the picture.
They looked at the camera, and saw:
Emily holding Kelly Rose, while Matt held Matthew Ryan, and Cheryl held Zackery Jacob, with Frank beside her, and Duff and Lia beside Matt.