I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. It's written on the wind. It's everywhere I go. Love is all around me. And so the feeling grows. So if you really love me, come on and let it show
14th February 2020
"Well, happy Valentine's Day love" Merlin smiled as he fed Amhar his porridge.
"Happy Valentine's Day" Morgana smiled. "And yes, the rule is still no coffee".
"I couldn't forget" Merlin chuckled. "Let's see, we have my parents coming down for the week on Monday, Mithian is due any second now, the consultant appointment".
"You know what? I think we should do it today" Morgana grinned.
"Do what? Have sex?" Merlin asked. "We have work today, even if it is Valentine's Day".
"Not have sex" Morgana chuckled. "Well, it'd be nice to. Now that I'm only throwing up whenever I smell coffee or wake up in the morning. I meant find out the sex of the baby".
"We should" Merlin agreed. "Tonight?".
"After work. We can come home, get changed for dinner at the restaurant, and find out what we're having".
"Team girl or team boy?" Merlin asked.
"Boy, I think" Morgana decided. "You?".
Merlin bit his lip. "Girl".
"We've already spoilt them" Morgana grimaced. In the time she'd been pregnant, they'd already bought the car seat—a Cybex Cloud Z i-size with it's matching Z bases. The base could later be used for the toddler seat and could rotate with both the baby and toddler seat on unlike most modular car seat bases, which both Merlin and Morgana decided they loved after spending an hour playing with it in the shop.
"Is this because we spent over £600 on the car seats?" Merlin asked.
"Let's see what else" Morgana mused. "Your parents are insisting on paying for the pram— which is £800".
"It's £600 in the sale, besides it's the wedding present!" Merlin protested.
"A £200 Next2Me that admittedly I wanted".
"Well, babies are expensive".
"They definitely are" Morgana agreed. "Well, I don't think we need to get much more. We have the travel cot from Amhar, his bath support, clothes".
"We'll be fine" Merlin reassured her with a smile. "We'll be fine".
"Right, time for work" Morgana said as she put her plate in the sink and went to get changed. She'd slowly started transitioning to maternity clothes and was almost certain that after the February half term ended that she'd be in mainly maternity clothes. She hadn't told the students that she was pregnant yet, though she had told the rest of the department as she was getting rather bad at hiding it as of late. Mithian still hadn't had the baby and was very vocal about the fact that she was absolutely fed up of being pregnant and overdue. The last day of the first half of the Lent term went by surprisingly quickly given it was Valentine's Day, everyone happy to go home at the end of the day. Merlin and Morgana tended to leave as soon as their last lesson finished, yet usually would wait a few minutes and pack up, yet today they'd packed up all the books they'd need for the weekend in the car at lunch and went straight to collect Amhar from nursery. They'd decided on their outfits the night before and picked up the balloon, so Morgana wouldn't take too long changing and deciding Amhar's outfit.
Merlin and Morgana balanced their phone's on the wall next to the table, moving the chairs out the way. The balloon had a weight with a blue and pink heart, covered in white question marks.
"Ready to see?" Morgana asked with a grin as Merlin picked up Amhar.
"I sure am" Merlin smiled. He hit record and they took the pins off the table. "Amhar, is the baby going to be a boy or a girl?".
"Boy" Amhar decided.
"Okay, three ... two ... one" Morgana grinned. They popped the balloon showering themselves in confetti. Merlin looked around. He saw Morgana grinning as she held the blue confetti. Blue confetti.
"We're having a boy!" Merlin gasped.
"It's a boy" Morgana cried with a grin. "Oh my god, it's a boy!".
"The baby's a boy! We're having a son!".
"I can't believe it! Well, we ought to start thinking of names soon!".
They went out for dinner before returning home and having the best sex, given that they hadn't had sex before Morgana was pregnant. Four whole months of abstaining, yet the wait was worth it.
16th February 2020
Merlin and Morgana rushed around getting the house ready for Hunith and Balinor. Morgana had offered them her bed but given that she was pregnant they both profusely refused, instead offering to sleep on an air mattress in Amhar's room. Merlin and Morgana both protested yet Hunith and Balinor were more stubborn and found themselves setting up Amhar's nursery, inflating the mattress while Amhar jumped up and down in his cot. He tended to use it as a trampoline these days, not that Merlin and morgana minded. It was a good way to contain him, and they'd probably have to move him out at some point in the next nine months. While they were unsure on how they'd parent the baby, they knew that they'd have him in a Chicco Next2me for at least the first six months, probably co-sleep until he was one followed by moving into a cot. Either way, Merlin and Morgana were almost adamant on attachment parenting, having looked at many slings and Morgana planned to breastfed for at least two years.
"You do the sheets, I'll try to put the duvet on" Morgana said.
"It's easier to do it together" Merlin shrugged. Morgana shot him a pointed look. "I'll do the duvet then if you want".
"Okay" Morgana shrugged as she went to one corner of the mattress and got down on her knees and secured one corner.
"Hold it, I'll get the other one" Merlin said. Morgana knelt on the corner of the mattress, checking her phone to see if she had any messages. Mithian.
"Mithian's messaged" Morgana commented.
"Wonder if she's had the baby yet" Merlin mused. Morgana unlocked her phone and went to whatsapp, where Mithian was messaging.
13:18–She's here! 8lb 6oz x
13:35–any chance you can come visit [laughing emoji]. My parents and Leon's are still at work. Baby's off having her hearing test. Pretty nice to have a newborn but I'm bored as shit haha x
"Mithian wants us to visit. She's had the baby". Morgana began to text back. Congratulations, so happy for you! What hospital/ward/visiting hours? It'd be great to see you and bub x
"That's nice" Merlin smiled. "Really happy for her. Girl or boy?".
"She's known it's a girl for a while" Morgana rolled her eyes. "Eight pounds six ounces".
"That's big" Merlin whistled. "Did she say the hospital?".
13:46– Northern plains, maternity ward. Bed 17. Visiting hours are all day (8:30-8:30) and I presume Amhar'll need to go to bed before they end
"Okay, off we go" Morgana decided as she took Amhar out his cot.
"Now?" Merlin asked as he secured the last corner on the bed.
"Why not?" Morgana shrugged.
"I like the way you think" Merlin smirked. "Your car?".
"Yeah" Morgana replied as they went to their cars. Morgana decided to drive, getting to the hospital at around two just as Amhar had woken up from his short nap. He didn't go back to sleep as Merlin transferred him to the buggy, instead clinging to Morgana as though his life depended on it as they made their way up to the postnatal and maternity ward. Merlin buzzed and stated "Mithian Nemeth-Hunter", they were quickly let in and made their way to the ward. Mithian's bed was near the window, she sat propped up holding a newborn in her arms.
"Oh my gosh! She's adorable!" Morgana gushed.
"Congrats mate" Merlin smiled as he patted Leon on the back.
"How was it?" Morgana asked.
"Pretty painful but wonderful" Mithian winced. "I had her at six in the morning, morphine and gas and air. Used the birthing centre so had a pool and whatnot, couldn't have the epidural".
"I've been looking into the birth centre too but I'm under Avalon instead" Morgana said.
"It's so good" Mithian agreed. "I'd go for it".
"She's gorgeous" Morgana smiled. "Amhar look, there's a baby".
"No" Amhar said as he rubbed his eyes and rested his head on Morgana's shoulder. "My mummy".
"Oh dear" Mithian laughed. "Someone's already jealous".
"Have you told him yet?" Leon asked. "Sorry, I should let you sit down".
"Thank you" Morgana smiled gratefully as she sat down with Amhar. "Not yet".
"We're waiting till twenty weeks" Merlin explained. "Seeing as he's still a baby himself".
"He is" Mithian agreed with a smile. "Do you want to hold her?".
"Yes please" Morgana smiled. She went over to the bottle of hand sanitiser and rubbed it in, Merlin prying Amhar off her. Morgana gently cradled the newborn in her arms, supporting her head and smiling at her. "Hi sweetie" she cooed. "Have you named her yet?".
Mithian and Leon glanced at each other before Leon spoke. "Athena Matilda Hunter".
"That's lovely" Merlin smiled.
"Is Amhar getting a younger brother or a sister?" Mithian asked.
"Brother" Morgana replied.
19th February 2020
Having Hunith and Balinor around was rather nice for Merlin and Morgana. They wouldn't have to get up early with the baby, and Merlin could go to antenatal appointments with Morgana provided that they were during half term, after school or during the school holidays while they watched Amhar. Dylan was busy with university, they hadn't made up with Morgause completely yet, Mithian had a new baby, Sefa was often busy yet happy to babysit on the odd occasion, so they didn't want to have their friends babysit and instead left Merlin in the car with Amhar if they had to take him in. The coronavirus statistics around the world were slightly worrying, yet given that they were lower than the amount of people unwell from flu, most people in England weren't too worried. Yet it was still a rather new virus, so while obviously there were concerns for some, others were simply baffled on how eating a bat could cause all this.
Merlin and Morgana were at Avalon city hospital once more in the antenatal outpatients. Usually they'd be excited to be there, yet this time were rather nervous given that they would be seeing a consultant.
"Morgana Emrys please" the doctor said. He was a rather tall guy, bald and black, reminding Merlin of Kingsley Shacklebolt from Harry Potter.
"I'm Dr Aglain, antenatal and neonatology consultant" he greeted. "So to start off, we'll need to take your height, weight and blood pressure then get to things".
Around ten minutes later everything was done and they sat in his room. "I don't think that there's anything to worry about, although we'll look again after the twenty week scan and see where we can go from there. As of now, I think everything's OK but I am erring on the side of caution because of the HG".