Pregnancy

Time had flown for Rita and as she lay in bed that morning she thought back over all the things that had happened. It felt like only yesterday she found out she was pregnant and yet so much changed.

She'd never seen Iain so caring and happy as what he was around her at home, knowing that soon they'd be hearing the tiny pitter-patter of feet across the floor. She remembered him calling her Mummy and finding it such a strange idea.

Rita was still in bed when Iain woke up and rolled over to face her. He instantly moved his hands to rest on her stomach. "Morning, how you feeling today. Did you sleep much?" Rita nodded smiling as he moved his hands across her stomach. "For once they decided it would be nice for me to get a full nights sleep…"

Iain looked over at her. "I still struggle believing we're going to be parents. I can't wait to meet you, even if we don't know whether you're a pink or blue yet because you're Mummy was being fussy." He looked back up to her and noticed she was looking blankly towards him. "I was joking Reets, I wasn't-" "It was weird hearing you call me Mummy, it's just going to take some getting used to." He smiled looking back down to her bump where her hand rested. He put his on top of hers and spoke again "One thing you'll learn is you have a fantastic Mummy who makes me the happiest guy in the world…"

Iain was still asleep so Rita got up and headed downstairs for a bit. She sat on the sofa and saw the book of names left on the side. They'd finally decided on a name for the baby, whether it was a boy or girl and she smiled thinking about it.

Iain picked up the book and took out the list smiling down at the 6 girls names they had written down. They only had 2 names for a boy and knew that Rita wanted to call him Charlie, so he wrote something at the bottom as he noticed her walk in. "Hey! Thanks for waiting…" he smiled up at her as she sat down next to him.

"Okay, so we both write down our two favourite names for a girl and what we want to call it if it's a boy-" "No… I mean yes, kind of. Girls names, fine but if it's a boy I want us to call him Charlie Aaron. That way we have the best of both worlds, and like I said Charlie's a nice name." Rita smiled slightly up at him with tears in the corners of her eyes. He pulled her in for a hug before sitting up and they both wrote down their favourite names.

When they put the pieces of paper down they noticed that the first name on both of their sheets was the same. "I guess that solves it-" "But I want it to be what we both want, like you did with Charlie." Rita wrote something underneath the boys name they'd decided on and noticed a smile appear on Iain's face when he read it. "Are you sure?" Rita nodded "There's no way I'd have anything else, okay?" He smiled leaning down and kissing her as she rested her head on his chest.

Rita was looking down at the paper focusing on the last part of both names. Dean. He'd said he'd understand her wanting the baby to have her name but she refused. No matter whether they had a boy or a girl, they'd take his name because it was the one thing that was important to Rita. Other than not knowing what they were having until the last moment, and she'd managed to get her way with that.

"Come on Iain pleeeaseeeee…" He looked at her rolling his eyes as they walked through the hospital up to the maternity ward. "You know that you'd love the surprise of finding out what your baby was, and I don't think I could cope with all the shopping before if you knew what colours you could get!" he laughed as they took a seat in the waiting area.

He'd been so set on going in and finding out the gender, even if Rita didn't know. She had said she was okay with him doing it that way but had carried on trying to persuade him out of it. Only as they sat down in the room and Jessica began turning the machines on did Iain change his mind. "So then, are we finding out the gender of this one today?" Rita began to speak "Well-" "We've decided to wait… Where's the fun in knowing this early?" He looked at Rita smiling towards him as he held her hand before looking back at the screen to their baby.

It was almost 7 and Iain was beginning to wake up. Rita had returned upstairs and was in the bathroom looking in a mirror at herself. She couldn't believe that in less than a month they would be meeting their little one for the first time. She didn't hear Iain come in but noticed his hands appear around her waist. "Morning, how'd you sleep?" Rita shook her head "If you can call it sleep, not much." She turned around in his arms as he bent down to speak to her stomach. He did that a lot, and it made Rita smile whenever he did.

Sometimes he would just start talking to the baby as though it were going to answer him. There had been a few times where he'd done it in the middle of the hospital and staff had watched and laughed as he did. "You must be a boy, taking after your Dad with being good at keeping your Mum up all night." Rita looked down past her stomach to see Iain winking up at her. She pushed him back slightly and walked into the bedroom. "And Daddy keeping me up all night, is how we got into this situation of me not sleeping now! In a few weeks, there will be a whole new meaning to sleepless nights which you can enjoy too." She smiled towards Iain who was lying back down on the bed and lying Rita back with him "And I can't wait."

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed this. It returns to Connie in the next few chapters so I hope you enjoy that... And there's soon drama building soon so please keep reading! Review if there's anything you'd like to see or if you like this, thanks! Laura x