Warning: Some content of this chapter may be disturbing and/or disgusting to those who don't know the true (beautiful) meaning of birth. If you do not like it, please skip the part. (I tried my hardest not to make it so graphic!) If you are a mature person like me, you deserve a cupcake... ANYWAY,
Viewers discretion is advised. :3
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It's been one hell of a day for Lightning, or really, for Sally. Just after their wedding, Sally's water unexpectedly broke, leaving her now-husband, frightened to death. She had ended up going back home with Lightning right after the wedding service so she could at least try to calm her nerves down a little before they would leave. Leave where, you ask? Well...
A few weeks ago during the time Sally and Lightning were talking about how and where she would want the baby delivered, Flo had introduced them to a birthing center she had heard of before and had a massive amount of positive reviews about the environment and service there. The mentioning of an underwater birth was brought up, and Sally decided that she would rather do it that way, which was a much more natural birthing option and would be more comforting for Sally, for she really didn't want to be wrapped up in unnecessary heaps of IV's and have the nurses take her baby away before she could even hold it.
Close to an hour later, Sally's labor pains slowed down and Lightning packed their bags with the things they would need during their stay at the birthing center. Sally was pacing back and fourth from one wall to the other, trying to get her mind off of the labor pains.
"You alright, babe?" Lightning asked in a fairly worried tone while tossing the last of their clothes in a black duffel bag.
"Yeahh... Are you almost done?" She spoke uneasily, her hands nuzzled under her belly as support.
"I'm finished, Let's go!" He shouted as he hurriedly opened the door for her, the duffel bag thrown carelessly over his shoulder.
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The moment they admitted into TBC (The Birthing Center), Given their own private room with a bathroom, and assisted by their Mid-wife, It seemed almost unreal that the place was nicer than they had expected and everyone was so kind and helpful. Their room seemed like they were in their own house, no sign of any hospital equipment or anything!
Hearing a knock on their door, Lightning opened it, only to let their assigned Midwife enter the room.
"Hi, I'm Emiline, I'll be your Midwife for the time you'll be staying here." She kindly introduced herself to Sally and Lightning, a small little clip board tucked under her right arm. She was a beautiful woman; Had vibrant green eyes, almost similar to Sally's and straight dark red hair that was tied back in a loose, messy bun. Her complexion was perfect, no flaw to be seen but seemed to be in her early 30's.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Sally and that's my husband, Lightning." Sally rested a hand on his shoulder.
"Lightning McQueen? Well, Isn't this amazin'! I watch you at your races on tv with my son at home, you're pretty amazing, If I should say so myself...!"
"Hah, Thanks." He smiled kindly, already being used of people saying things like that.
"Sure! So, I never knew you had a girl friend-" Emiline started but Lightning immediately cut in,
"Actually, she's my wife. We just recently got married not too long ago.."
"Goodness, congratulations you two! You're very lucky to have such a lovely, beautiful woman in your life, McQueen."
Lightning's face grew a slight tinge of red at her words. Sally let a smile form across her lips and glanced aside towards Lightning.
"I hope he realizes that, too." Sally chuckled along with Emiline, watching him just awkwardly stand there.
"Well, let's get you all settled in, shall we?" Emiline said with a smile.
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Lights dimmed, soft music playing, the feel of the warm, purple light illuminated water caressing her skin, and that feeling you get when you're so calm, you're almost hypnotized. Yep, this birth would be one to remember.
Sally was assisted into the jacuzzi type bathtub in the bathroom to help keep her stress levels down while she was in labor. She was in her bikini bathing suit, but only the actual top part was on. She didn't feel really comfortable being completely naked...
Lightning was inside of the tub with her as support and for comfort. Sally was sitting upon his lap comfortably at an angle so she was almost lying down on her back, but on him. (A/N: Btw, yes, he is wearing swim shorts -.-) She kept her eyes closed and let her body remain calm. Since she was now fully dialated, she was starting to feel the pain trying to overcome her again, but Emiline told her in a soft voice to relax and take calm, deep breaths an relax her muscles. It was called Hypnobirthing, what Sally was doing. It was really helping a lot, definately 100% effective...
Lightning continued his little "Therapeutic session" with Sally, which was gently brushing his fingers through her hair and little butterfly kisses here and there. (A/N: Ooh, that rhymed! :D)
Sally took a smooth, deep breath and started to feel unbelievable pressure towards her bottom area. She even started feeling like a dishrag being wrung out dry, but from inside out, it was getting pretty intense. The pain was mostly radiating through out her lower back and around her uterus area, it felt like very very severe menstural cramps, but off the scale, painful.
Emiline noticed Sally's clear signs of discomfort and whispered a small "It's alright..." to her. Sally emited a low groan and lifted herself up off of Lightning and leaned forward over the side of the tub on her knees, resting her head on the edge.
"If you feel the urge to push, don't hold back." Emiline whispered to Sally and soon after that, she began pushing.
Lightning checked under the water to see if any of the baby was out yet but still, nothing.
"You got it, Sal... You can do it.." He whispered soft encouragement to his wife.
She only groaned in response and the contractions started lessening little by little again. She soon enough stopped her pushing and relaxed herself. Lightning gave her a little gentle back massage, hoping that would help lessen a little pain. Sally exhaled deeply at the touch of his hands, he was literally undoing the knots in her lower back.
"...mmmmm..." Sally moaned out. Making vocal noises actually helped her out in a way that mystified her.
Emiline momentarily left the room and came walking back in with an EFM (Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring lol) device in her hand. She kneeled herself down beside Sally and dipped her hand into the water, pressing the end of the wired device to Sally's belly.
The second the device touched her, Sally felt her heart melt in pure bliss. The sound of her baby's beautiful quick heart beat encouraged her, even made her adrenaline start to rush and made her unbelievably excited. She couldn't wait to meet her baby.
"Heart rate is excellent!" Emiline said, "She'll be here very soon, are you ready?"
"I'm ready!" Sally exclaimed with a chuckle, hearing a small laugh from Lightning as well.
"Alright then, let's do this." Emiline said deterministically.
Lightning was right behind her to catch the baby when it was time. Emiline was also watching very closely and carefully. As the time drew closer and closer, It was finally time.
After many pushed and curses under her breath, part of the baby's head was finally seen by Lightning. The small purple light that was in the tub made it very easier to see the baby since it lit up all of the water, making it glow.
Sally felt like she was being ripped apart when the babys head was coming out. She couldn't take the pain, but wasn't about to give up yet. She lifted her head and opened her eyes to look towards her bottom area. She did indeed, see the head coming out and swiftly moved a hand down and helped maneuver the baby out very gently.
The feeling of her skin stretching was painful, but amazing, she didn't even know her body was capable of doing that!
She lied herself back against the wall and was near exhaustion. Lightning brushed her hair out of her face and planted a small kiss on her lips.
"Oooh, get out of me!" Sally shouted to her baby, pressing her hands against her belly.
Lightning couldn't help but chuckle to himself. He sat in front of her in the tub, carefully watching his wife push right before him.
"Here comes the head..." Emiline said, leaning over the tub and guiding the baby through. Sally kept pushing until she couldn't take it any longer.
"There you go, give one more big push, Sal!" Lightning felt himself growing happy every second as he protectively held the baby's head, then shoulders, then in an instant, it's entire body.
Sally exhaled loudly, taking her newly born crying baby in her arms, feeling tears escape her eyes.
"Ah, A beautiful, healthy baby boy...!" Emiline smiled, removing her soiled gloves and watched happily as Sally and Lightning enjoyed their first few minutes with their baby.
"He has your eyes..." Lightning whispered to Sally softly, a smile visible across his lips.
Sally exhaustively nodded her head back and softly smiled in pure bliss. The feel of her son's soft skin against hers was incredible. Nothing could describe how amazing this moment felt. Both with their new child and the best moment of their lives, knew that this would definitely be the start of a beautiful, beautiful family...
A/N: I have to say sorry again that I haven't been updating n a while. Making hula hoops with my mother is long and tedious! Yep, I make my own hula hoops and sell them all around the city of Chicago and some part of Indiana. If you live in Chicago, come visit me at Magnificent Mile this Autumn and if you're lucky, you'll get to see a few tricks with hula's! Hahah
But yeah... Have you ever heard of Kuroshitsuji? If u haven't, WATCH IT. DO IT NOW.
:3 Laterz~