Life after the end
Chapter 13: The birth of the twins
I have been in labour for five hours, and yeah, it hurts, a lot. My waters broke two hours ago, which made the contractions even worse than they already were. But Tobias has been great, he's been holding my hand, letting me squeeze it whenever a contraction comes, he's been rubbing my back and saying really nice encouraging words to me. We've decided not to tell our friends that I'm in labour at all, just to ring them when the babies are here.
"Is there anything you want me to get for you?" Tobias asks me. My contractions are about fifteen minutes apart now, and I'm only four centimetres dilated, so I still have a while to go.
"No, I'm good, thanks." I say just as another contraction hits and I squeeze his hand whilst crying out in pain. He's sitting on the edge of the bed I am in, facing me, my right hand holding his left.
He pulls me close to him and rubs my back whilst I cry into his shoulder, I am actually crying. The pain is making me cry, as well as they fact that I am going to be a mum to two babies in the matter of hours.
The midwife, Laura, comes into the room every half an hour to check on my progress, but that's the only time we see her, she'll have to stay in when I get to ten centimetres to tell me when to push and stuff, but then she'll be gone again, checking me and the babies every half an hour after I have given birth until we're allowed to go home. That's what she said to us anyway.
"Do you want some pain relief?" Tobias asks when the contraction has subsided.
"No, I don't want to be drugged up on pain relief. I'm fine." I answer.
"Tris, you're not fine, you're crying and I don't like seeing you in pain." He says.
"I know you don't, but I don't want to be drugged up whilst giving birth to our babies, no matter how much it hurts." I say.
"Okay." He says. "Do you want a drink or anything?"
"Water please." I reply, knowing that he doesn't have to leave the room to get that for me as there is a jug of water and some plastic cups on the table beside the bed.
He fills up one of the cups and gives it to me, I drink the water and put the cup back on the side.
Tobias tucks a strand of my sweaty hair behind my ear before kissing my sweaty forehead. It's hot and giving birth is incredibly difficult. So difficult I am sweating and my horrible hospital gown is sticking to my body.
"I love you, Tris." He says.
"I love you, too." I reply.
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Five hours later and I am still in labour. Our friends haven't figured it out yet, obviously, because they aren't here.
The midwife enters the room just as another contraction hits me and I bury my head in Tobias' shoulder, crying out in pain. She checks me before saying,
"You're ten centimetres dilated, on the next contraction I need you to give me a really big push, okay, Tris."
I just nod into Tobias' shoulder and wait for my next contraction to come.
It does two minutes later and I push, as hard as I can, crying out in pain, squeezing Tobias' hand so hard that it turns a sickly shade of white.
"You're doing so well Tris, I love you." Tobias whispers into my ear as he rubs my back.
"Great, I can see baby A's head. You need to push again on the next contraction okay."
I push three more times before I hear the cries coming from my son. Tobias cuts the cord with a smile on his face and tears streaming down his cheeks like mine, the midwife cleans my son off before wrapping him in a baby blue blanket and placing him gently into my arms.
I look down at my little boy to see that he has Tobias' hair colour and my eyes. He's beautiful, he's small but he is eight weeks early, and he has a twin.
That's when the pain comes back. The midwife takes my son out of my arms and places him in a cot at the side of the room before telling me to push. Tobias takes my hand and I push as hard as I can.
I push two more times and I hear the cries of my baby girl. Tobias cuts the cord again, still smiling. The midwife cleans her and wraps her up in a light pink blanket before placing my little girl into my arms. Tobias goes and gets our son from the cot before coming back over to me. He sits on the side of the bed again and we look down at our children. Our beautiful, but small, children.
Our little girl has my hair and Tobias' eyes, she looks just like him, apart from the hair, and our son looks just like me. They're amazing.
"I'll give you guys some time. Congratulations. They are both healthy." The midwife says before leaving the room.
"They're beautiful." I say.
"Yeah, they are. Thank you, Tris, for the most amazing gifts ever." Tobias says.
"Thank you, too, I mean, you are the one that got me pregnant in the first place. They wouldn't be here without your participation." I say.
"True. I love you, all of you." He says.
"We love you too." I say.
Tobias kisses my head and we go back to looking at our little boy and girl.
"So, we now have our William Andrew Eaton and our Marlene Natalie Lynn Eaton." He says.
"Yeah, we do." I reply. "Do you want to call our friends now?"
"Yeah, sure, I'll call Zeke and he'll probably be with the others as its lunch time now so he can tell them." He says before taking his phone of the side, still holding William, and dialling Zeke's number.
"Hey Zeke… Nothing's wrong, it's just, Tris has given birth to the twins." Tobias says.
"WHAT?!" I hear Zeke yell.
"Tris went into labour about ten hours ago, she just gave birth ten minutes ago… Yeah, Tris is fine, the babies are fine, everyone is fine… Yes, you can come to the infirmary and see them… Yes, tell the others… Okay, I'll see you in a few minutes." Tobias ends the call and puts his phone back on the table.
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Five minutes later our friends burst into the room. Christina, Uriah, Zeke, Shauna, Hana, Bud, Harrison, all of them carrying presents or balloons or whatever. They all rush over to us and look at the babies.
"They're beautiful. What are their names?" Christina asks, they didn't get to see the wardrobes in the nursery as Tobias and I didn't want them finding out the names we had picked out for them.
"He is called William Andrew Eaton, but you may call him Will. And this little girl here is called Marlene Natalie Lynn Eaton." I tell our friends.
"They're adorable, and I love their names." Shauna says.
"They're so cute." Uriah says.
"Can we hold them?" Zeke asks.
"Sure." Tobias says before passing William to Zeke, I place Marlene in Christina's hands.
They pass them around before I end up holding William and Tobias holds Marlene, then we just talk and laugh, we open their gifts for us, and we eat.
They leave a couple of hours later when I decide that I want some sleep. Tobias puts the twins in their cots and I slide over on the bed so he can climb in next to me, which he does.
I fall asleep wrapped in my fiancés arms.
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