AN: I'm back to give you more of Bayley's journey of motherhood! I've been writing when I can and how much I can do everyday. Let's just say, I'm doing my damn best.
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Two days later, January 17, 2049
Bayley's P.O.V.
Today we are finally taking Rawlings home for the first time. I'm so ready to not be in the hospital anymore. I'm ready to be home with my baby and Taylor. Taylor helped me into the back seat with Rawlings and then he got into the car.
Here we go. Home. We're going home.
I was looking at our little girl as she was asleep when Taylor looked at me.
"You okay, baby?" He asks as he continues to drive towards my parents house. "I'm fine, babe. Baby's asleep." I say, with a smile on my face.
Taylor smiled back at me. "I'm so happy she's healthy."
"Me too, Tay." I say, looking out the window. "I'm still sore as fuck, but at least I'm good enough to go home."
Taylor nods as he drives a few more miles before arriving at my parents home. I wait until Taylor comes to open the door and as he's doing that, my mom comes outside to help him with Rawlings.
I see my dog barking and running around the front door as he sees me getting out of the car.
"Hi, Coco! Hey boy." I say, smiling at him and kisses his head and I head inside the house with Taylor, Rawlings and my mom behind me. Once inside, I see my younger siblings sitting on the couch.
"Hi guys."
Beverley smiled at me. "Can I hold her, Bay?"
I smile at her. "Did you wash your hands?"
She nods her head. "Yes, I did."
I watch Taylor place Rawlings into my sister's arms. After Beverley holds her, my parents and Taylor's parents got their chance to hold their first granddaughter.
I can't believe this is now my life. A future wife, and a teenage mother. It's so unreal. I can't believe it. I'm so overwhelmed with love how well Taylor is with our little girl. He shows so much love in his eyes with her.
After an hour, I decided to breastfeed Rawlings again before she gets hungry again. I'm feeding her every thirty to an hour since my breast milk is just coming in now. After having a c section, I'm still very sore everywhere, so Taylor and our parents are helping me tonight and for the first week.
After feeding Rawlings, I burped her and then Taylor carried her upstairs for me, as I'm not ready to be carrying her upstairs yet. She's too small.
I followed him to my bedroom.
It feels so good to have my own little family now. I can't believe I gave birth to such a beautiful little girl.
When we reached my bedroom, Taylor placed Rawlings in her bassinet beside my bed and I let out a yawn. I can't believe I'm already so exhausted and it's only been a few hours since we got home.
"She's so beautiful." I hear Taylor say as he kisses my forehead.
"I know." I mutter as I close my eyes. I drift off to sleep not a second later.
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Later that night after dinner, I was sitting on the couch with Taylor. I fell asleep not even five minutes after sitting down. God, I never thought I'd be so exhausted. He was watching a movie when the baby monitor began blinking and not shortly after, Rawlings was crying.
I opened my eyes to see Taylor shaking his head. "I'll get her, babe. You go back to sleep."
I nod my head, hearing my daughter crying still before I don't hear her crying anymore. I sigh out of relief.
God, I'm so lucky. How could I be this lucky? I can not be this fucking lucky.
A few minutes later, I hear Taylor walking downstairs. "Do you want to come upstairs now?" He asks me. I nod my head.
"Yeah, I'm extremely exhausted." I slowly stand up and head upstairs with Taylor's help, of course. I climb into my bed and yawn. Once my head hit the pillow, I was out. God, I was that exhausted.
I heard crying an hour later, 10:45PM. I groan, rubbing my eyes as I reach over and picked up my daughter. "She's hungry." I say to Taylor, who sat up. "I'll change her before you lay her down then."
"Thank you." I say, smiling at him. After breastfeeding Rawlings, I burp her and then hand her to Taylor who changes her before sitting in the rocking chair and rocks her to sleep.
By the time, it was 6AM, Taylor have been up every hour and we just decided to stay up by the time it was six in the morning.
Taylor carried our daughter downstairs to her swing. My mom looks at us.
"You two look so exhausted." She says.
I laugh slightly. "Oh, we know." I say, heading over to the coffee machine, making myself a cup.
Mom looks at Rawlings, who is asleep in the swing. "She looks so peaceful. You two need like 3 cups of coffee."
I laugh. "I can't have much coffee, though. I'm still breastfeeding her." I say, pouring some Starbucks K cup coffee into our coffee machine.
Mom smiles. "That's true, I had the same issue. I couldn't have a lot of coffee either." She turns to Taylor, who starts making his cup of coffee.
"How does it feel to be a dad?"
Taylor turns to my mom. "Overwhelming. I feel like I have to protect my girls, Bay and Raw Raw."
I turn to my fiance and I smile. "Thank you, baby."
"You're welcome, honey." He says, taking a sip of his coffee.
A few minutes later, we make our own breakfast, while our daughter sleeps in her swing. A few minutes after eating, Taylor does the dishes while I take care of Rawlings who started crying as soon as we were done eating.
I walked over to her and picked her up, rocked her into my arms and then I feed her again. As I was feeding her, I saw my phone ping.
I reach down and pick it up. I opened my phone and checked my messages.
Val; Hi girl. How are you and Rawlings?
Bayley; Hi! Baby is good. She's eating. She's doing well. How are you and the girls?
Gina; We miss you. School still sucks, we miss your beautiful face!
Bayley; Awww, I miss you girls too.
Eva; Are you coming back soon?
Bayley; No, I won't be back in school for another 8 weeks.
Val; Wow. 8 weeks without you?
Bayley; Yeah. I gotta go. I have to put Rawlings to sleep again.
After texting my friends, I carried Rawlings upstairs with my mom behind me. I sigh out of relief when I got to my room safely.
"I did it." Mom smiles at me. "I'm so happy for you, honey. You'll do so well I know you can be a great mom to her."
"Thank you, mom!" I give her a hug before placing Rawlings in her bassinet.
AN: Sorry I haven't been updating much. I had some writers block. I'm getting back to writing soon.
