Chapter 56
Babies.
Hermione and Draco had been home a week and had settled into a routine very quickly. Hermione and Draco had breakfast with Cissy in the morning. After Draco left for work Cissy and Hermione had what Hermione had started calling her lessons. Every morning after breakfast until after lunch Cissy explained to Hermione about Wizard Etiquette. The more Hermione learned the more she knew that the problems that all of them had had the first couple of years at Hogwarts wouldn't have happened if they had understood wizarding etiquette.
The more Hermione thought about it the more she felt like she needed to share what she was learning. So like the person she was she owled Professor McGonagall. The professor owled Hermione back with the very same owl and asked to meet with Hermione. So they decided that the Professor would visit a week from Monday.
The following week Hermione and Cissy continued to work in the morning and in the afternoon Hermione put the notes she took into a form that could be used to show the Professor. On Saturday Draco and Hermione had worked on getting everything set up for the nursery. By that evening Hermione was really tired so instead of dressing for dinner Hermione and Draco had dinner in their suite. And by 10 she was in bed and asleep.
Sunday found Hermione feeling rested and antsy. She would read for ½ hour or so and then find she couldn't concentrate, then she would work on the notes for the Professor, a few minutes alter she would work on something else. By lunch time Cissy and Draco were both getting worried about Hermione; she was always able to lose herself in a book and today she couldn't sit still.
Finally after lunch Draco talked her into taking a walk in the garden. When they came back from their walk Hermione seemed to be able to settle down and read and napped the afternoon away. After dinner that evening Hermione went over her notes for the Professor one more time and then excused herself to go to bed.
Draco excused himself from him mother at around 10:00 and headed to bed himself. When he got to their room he found Hermione asleep with a book lying beside her. Draco smiled gathered up the book and went to bed.
Two hours later Hermione woke up and thought she needed to go to the loo which wasn't anything unusual for her. She got up took two steps and felt a cramp go around from her back to her front. She quietly flicked her wand to give her a little light and went to the loo and then a shower. By the time she finished her shower she realized that she was having cramping in her back but nothing bad. So she decided to curl up in her favorite chair from Hogwarts and read for a little bit. She knew after seeing Ginny and the other Weasley's that she would probably be in for a long labor and the healer had told her at her last appointment that the babies would be fine even if she did go in to labor now. Hermione sat rubbing her twins through her stomach and thought to herself. I really can't believe that I'm in labor. I'm just 7 ½ months but the healer promised me that the babies would fine. They did the spell that helps early babies not have problems. So I know they will be fine but it's still scary sitting here. But, I refuse to wake Draco up! He has to work tomorrow and he couldn't do anything. Shoot I don't even hurt but once in a while and it's not even as bad as the cramps I used to have. No I'm going to sit here and read and forget about everything till I get sleepy again.
Hermione sat and read for about an hour when she had a contraction that went around her stomach again. Unfortunately she had been getting sleepy but that woke her back up. She decided again that it wasn't that bad and she talked herself into thinking she wasn't in labor with it being over an hour. She was just tired for doing all the work on Saturday. She went back to reading her book; about 45 minutes later just as she was drifting off to sleep in the chair she had another cramp go around her stomach but this one hurt. It hurt bad enough that she gasped just slightly.
Hermione still debated about waking Draco and once again decided not to. Less then ½ an hour later she had another of those cramps and decided that she was in labor. She decided she would watch the time and see when she had another contraction. The next one came at 28 minutes after her last, and Hermione being the person she is decided she would watch the clock again. Once again at 28 minutes she felt another but an even more painful contraction start in her back and work its way around to the front. This one was so strong that she gasped loud enough that it woke Draco.
"Mione? What's wrong what are you doing up?"
"Draco I think I'm in labor, I've had two contractions that are 28 minutes apart, and I've got constant pressure in my back."
Draco gathered up the bag that Hermione had packed on Thursday after her last appointment and he flooed the healer. Then he called one of their house elfs to make sure that someone would tell his mother; then he flooed Hermione to St. Mungo's and their private room.
Hermione had been in labor for 10 hours when she finally felt the sudden urge to push. When she told her healer this, she was checked and found ready to push. Draco had been sitting beside her trying to keep her comfortable for the last several hours. The medi witch had Draco sit behind Hermione to help her sit up and get more pressure in her pushes. Hermione could think of nothing but get these kids out of me. Finally after 2 hours of pushing the last twin their little boy came sliding into the doctor's hands.
Draco laid Hermione back against her bed and reached down and kissed her. Then he walked over and looked at his two beautiful little babies. He slowly leaned down and kissed his beautiful wife, "Thank you Hermione they are beautiful and so are you! Have you thought any more about names?"
"Not really I don't want to name our son after your father, and I know you don't want to either; but I would like to have my fathers name in his name or maybe Granger as his middle name; other then that I really don't care."
"I guess we have time we don't have to name them right this minute; I agree not my dad's name. Try to rest my love, we will talk about this later," Draco took his two children and took them out to show the friends and family waiting outside.
Hermione woke up several hours later to Draco sleeping in the chair beside her bed with his hand lying in the bassinet between the two sleeping babies. Unfortunately she wasn't as quiet as she thought she was and Draco woke up. Hermione told him she needed to use the loo so he helped her up. Just as she walked into the loo both twins woke up with an amazing set of lungs.
When Hermione returned from the loo the Medi-witch came in and helped Hermione and Draco with changing their nappies and also fixing their bottles; neither of them had ever held babies as small as their twins were. There little girl was 5lbs 8 oz and their little boy was 6 lbs even. Soon Hermione and Draco were holding their beautiful little ones giving them their first bottles.
