Once Upon A Straight Tequila Night
Chapter 37 - The Triplets Arrival
Derek's POV
I hear Penelope say "ohhhhhhh nooooooo" so I turn around and say "Penelope what do you mean ohhhhhhh nooooooo" she then says "hot stuff I need you to help me change because I think my waters just broke" I look down at her feet and see that she is indeed standing in a wet patch, I close the front door again and help her up the stairs and into the bedroom again once there I get her some clean panties and a comfortable skirt and get her changed and then we make our way back downstairs, I open the front door and grab her bag and put it in the car and then come back and help her to the car and then we head for the hospital.
We head for the hospital and I call on the way and let her know that we are on our way so that she can meet us there, we finally arrive at the hospital and I see Dr. Smith waiting t the entrance with a wheelchair I help Penelope out of the car and into the wheelchair and then grab her bag which Dr. Smith hangs on the back of the wheelchair and begins to enter the hospital while I quickly move my SUV into the car park, I make my way into the hospital and up to the maternity floor and stop at the nurses station and ask "can you please tell me which room Dr. Smith has taken my wife Penelope Morgan too" the kind nurse said "Dr. Smith has taken your wife into room 21 would you like me to show you where it is" I nod and say "yes please that would be very much appreciated thank you."
As we walk towards room 21 I hear Penelope scream out in pain and I know that she is having a contraction I quickly run past the nurse and into Penelope's room and straight to her bedside and take her hand in mine as I begin to rub her back with my other hand all while talking to her in quiet tones trying to calm her down, Dr. Smith returned to the room with some more monitoring belts and began to hook her up to the fetal monitor as she said "I called the anesthetist to come and give you an epidural so that we can get you in to perform your
c-section and get these babies out quickly so that there is no chance for them to become distressed at all, at the moment they are all doing well.
Penelope's POV
I can't believe this is happening we have waited so long for these babies to arrive and now we are going to get to meet them real soon I am having regular and consistent contractions when I feel another gush of warm liquid run down my legs and I know that this is happening quicker than Derek, Myself and Dr Smith thought it would as I turn to Derek and say "another bag of waters just broke they are determined that they want to be here today they don't want to wait" just then Dr. Smith and another doctor walk into the room and I say to Dr. Smith "I have just had another bag of waters break" she lifts the sheet and says "yes you have, lets get you cleaned up and get this epidural in place and get these babies here" I nod my head and Derek helps me up off the bed and then holds me in his arms as two nurses comes in one strips my bed while the other makes my bed, I am then helped back up onto the bed in a sitting position as the anesthetist begins to do my epidural.
My epidural is now in place and it is working wonders I can't feel anything which is great, Dr. Smith comes in and asks me a few questions before she hands me a clipboard with a surgery consent form on it and I sign it and then she hands Derek some scrubs and he goes and gets changed while she goes through what is going to happen they get into the operating theatre, when Derek came out of the bathroom in his scrubs he came and held my hand as we began to head for the operating theatre.
When we got to the operating theatre Dr. Smith asked Derek to wait outside while they got me ready, once I was ready they let Derek in and he sat beside me and held my hand as Dr. Smith and the other Doctors began doing my c-section, there were lots of people in the room with us each baby had their own team of pediatricians and nurses to care for them once they were born, I can feel a little pulling and then I hear a small cry as Dr. Smith says "Baby A a girl born at 1:33 pm" as she held her up so that Derek and I could see her before she passed her off to one of the nurses Dr. Smith says "Penelope have you got names for your babies chosen yet" I say "yes Baby A is Jamilla Emily Morgan, Baby B is Evaleigh Jennifer Morgan and Baby C is Derek Franklin Morgan Jr."
Dr. Smith says "they are all very beautiful names you have chosen" again I feel a little tugging on my belly and this time it is not a small cry I hear it is a loud cry and Dr. Smith says "Baby B a girl born at 1:35 pm on the 23rd November 2013" she held her up for Derek and I to see before she too was passed over to a nurse, I lay here with tears rolling down my face as I look at Derek who also has tears in his eyes as we listen to the sounds of our newborn daughters as they are being cleaned off and checked over, I again feel pulling and then I hear Dr. Smith say "Baby C a boy born at 1:37 pm" she held him up and he had his face all screwed up not happy about being pulled from his warm and comfortable home and Derek said "oh baby I am so proud of you" as he leans down and kisses my lips I then say to him "handsome go and check on them please."
Derek's POV
A nurse came and took me over to where our babies are and surprisingly none of the babies have any tubes up their noses which means that they are able to breath on their own, I look at each baby and notice that they have a perfect 50-50 mix of both mine and Penelope's skin color, the girls look like Penelope and our son looks like me but each of our babies are beautiful and I can't wait until we can take them home which hopeful will be soon.
While I am checking on the triplets each baby gets weighed and measured, I make my way back to Penelope's side and say "oh my god Baby Girl they are beautiful, they all have a 50-50 mix of both of our skin color the girls they look like you and our son looks like me and I got to see them all being weighed and measured Baby A weighed 4 lbs 15 oz (2.239kg), Baby B weighed 4 lbs 12.5 oz (2.168 kg) and Baby C weighed 4 lbs 10 oz (2.097 kg) and none of the babies have had any help with breathing so that is a good sign" I hear Dr. Smith say Derek you can go with the babies down to the nursery while we get Penelope settled back in her room" I reply "ok no worries" I lean down and kiss Penelope again and follow the babies to the nursery.
As the babies are wheeled into the nursery and I stand at the window looking in at them, I pull my cell phone out of my pocket and dial Mamma's number and when she answers she says "hey my baby boy how are you" I reply "I am extremely happy Mamma, I have some good news for you" she says "and what news do you have for me baby" I smile and say "what would you say if I told you that you are a Grand-Mamma" I have to pull my cell phone away from ear when she screams in pure happiness and then when she calms down and says "are you telling me that the babies are here already" I nod even though she can't see me and said "yeah they have only just arrived and they are currently in the nursery and Ohh Mamma they are beautiful."
I make my way back to Penelope's room and I notice that she is sleeping so I decide to call the team and let them know that the triplets are here, I pull out my cell phone again and dial Hotch's number and he answers on the second ring and says "Hotchner" I laugh and say "always formal Hotch, I just wanted to let you know that Penelope is starting her maternity leave as of now, I am currently watching her sleep after just having a caesarian section about 20 minutes ago" Hotch then says "what do you mean she had a caesarian section Derek" I say "we had our 28 week appointment this morning and the doctor put Penelope on bed rest and then she feel asleep and when she woke she began having contractions and the on our way out the door her water broke so they rushed her into do a c-section and all babies are doing well they are even in a normal nursery."
I head back to the nursery and ask "can I take the triplets into Penelope's room" the nurse says "of course you take them into her room they are all doing very well considering that they were born at 28 weeks they are holding their own, they haven't needed any help with their breathing at all as she brings them over to me and I line the three cribs side by side and hold them all together and make my way back to Penelope's room.