What a cheesy cliche' title for this chapter… It's 3 am so I'm not changing it. I stayed up too late editing this.
Our little miracle
"There she is!" A tiny high pitched wail erupted into the room, she stared at the when he finally held the baby up, she knew it was a baby despite how tiny she was. She knew it was her baby, the one she worked so hard to have. She fit comfortably in the hands of the doctor while he looked her over and wiped her off with a blanket. "And she is not happy with me." The doctor chuckled when he finally laid the baby on her chest, and the expression on the new parents faces.
The crying subsided when the baby was lying comfortably on her mothers chest. She looked down to the baby who looked even smaller up close, and smiled. Her mind went blank besides the baby's features and how she was warm on her chest. "Hi there," her words came out a whisper because her throat stung from all of her screaming. "So, you're the one who's been kicking me all this time." She heard someone laugh beside her, she realized her husband had the same look of awe she did when he was staring at their daughter.
"She's so beautiful." She wanted to tease him, because he was teary eyed, but she knew herself she was crying. She didn't care that the baby wasn't cleaned off yet, or that she started crying again, all she could concentrate on was the feeling of her breathing and her tiny cry's that seemed to be getting louder each minute. As much as she didn't want to hand her baby over to the nurse she had to, she already missed her and it had been less than a minute.
"Hey dad, you'll never guess who I'm holding." He laughed when his dad screamed at the top of his lungs, he most likely woke the neighbors and definitely woke his sleeping boy friend. He knew it had to be at least four in the morning, but his father made him promise to call him the minute the baby was born. "Dad, I can't put her on the phone, she's sleeping. What? Did you want to hear her cry or something?" He wasn't surprised when his dad said yes.
He was trying to keep up with the million questions he was asking, so he pulled out the cheat sheet that was laying on the babies bed. His dad asked usual questions, and then some random ones he hadn't even thought of yet. He was looking at the baby as a whole rather than shish feature belonged to who. "She weighs eight pounds even. Dad, I can't look at her hair, I'm not allowed to take her hat off, but I'm positive she had blonde hair."
He heard his dad arguing in the back ground, maybe he really did wake the neighbors with his yelling this time. He heard the phone being handed over to someone who was a lot less hyper than his own father, he was thinking maybe there would be less yelling in his ear. "How's my baby girl doing?"
He looked over to his wife who was fast asleep, she deserved it after everything she went through today. "She's sleep, she's kind of wore out and beat up but she's good." He said his goodbyes, much to the others dismay, but he didn't want to waste anymore time talking to them. He knew he only had another ten minutes until the nurse took the baby back to the nursery, so he was going to get all the daughter, father time in he could get.
The tiny cot he was sleeping on was not meant for someone his height, as much as he wanted to climb in the bed next to his wife he didn't. Not only did he deserve this horrible sleep after watching what she went through, he didn't want to risk hurting her anymore than she already currently was. He woke up around noon, stretching to try and get the kinked out of his back, from being awkwardly curled up all night.
The first thing he noticed was how bright the room was, rubbing his eyes until they adjusted. Then he noticed the small tv in the room was on, but wasn't being watched because his wife was staring at something on her bed. "Say hi sleepy daddy, I'm only nine hours old, and I can lift my head up already." He leaned over and watched the baby laying on her stomach lift her head up and open her eyes.
He was in awe at how she was already trying to look around and laid back down in defeat. "Did you dress her?" his wife nodded, she was only in a white onesie last night, and now she was in a pink onesie covered in flowers, she was still wearing her tiny pink hat, and she had little white socks on. She still had a hospital bracelet on her ankle with her name on it, it also said I'm a girl.
His moment was cut short when he heard a very familiar voice behind him say a little too loudly, "Where's my granddaughter." He didn't get so much as a "Hi" from his dad before he scooped the baby up in his arms. "Ah she so little, I haven't held one this small in almost nineteen years. Oh, I am getting so old." His dad continued to babble on, until the second half on the grandfather duo walked in.
He walked in and gave his daughter a kiss on the forehead before stealing the baby from his boyfriend and sitting on the foot of his daughters bed. He placed a kiss on her cheek and the baby cooed, whack made him laugh. "How cute, she looks just like you, when you were a baby. But of course you cried a lot more."
He spaced out thinking about his daughter when she was this small, and how she was so grown up now. "Now I have two baby girls." He kissed the baby one more time before handing her to his daughter. He still couldn't believe he was a grandfather, even with the proof being is his hands only moments ago, he still seen his daughter as a little girl, who was afraid of the monsters under her bed.
They didn't realize it but after a while they were all silent, listening to the baby make different sounds and watching her move around. There was more love in that room then any of them could comprehend, though it was unspoken love. No one knew how to explain it, or describe how one little person can change everything.
From family feuds, to broken hearts, to a loneliness you didn't know you were hiding, all mended and altered by the arrival of one person, none of them ever expected to meet. It was scary, it was happy, and it was sad for those she would never get to meet. Through all the mixed emotions, fighting, and confessions that came out, everything seemed okay. Strangely for the first time in a long time, they all felt like their family was complete.
This was the original ending to this story, but I also wrote a few chapters after this, when the baby is older. I can just end it here, or I can post them, it's really up to you guys.-Chesxca
