January 7th, 2005
Week 10
A whole New Year had begun. Jing-Mei and John had just celebrated their third wedding anniversary. It was wonderful. They spent their time alone in the house, just talking about the new baby coming up. They were all excited and so was Mrs. Chen. Jing-Mei was so thrilled that her mother was accepting it this time. In a week, Jing-Mei would be celebrating her birthday so John and Jing-Mei would be having an ultrasound and get a picture for the baby book. A present to herself, Jing-Mei said.
"We're seeing the baby! We're seeing the baby!" John was practically skipping his way to Jing-Mei's side of the car. She laughed softly.
"Excited. John?" She asked him. John nodded and led her inside.
"Seeing the baby has always been my favourite part." He said, "At least you know what he or she looks like." She chuckled.
"Sort of." She put her hand on her stomach as they went to the desk, "Hi. Jing-Mei Carter. I have a twelve o'clock appointment to see Dr. Coburn." The receptionist nodded.
"She's ready for you right now. You may go right in." She said.
"Great!" John grabbed her hand and pulled her into Coburn's office.
"Dr. Carters, very nice to see you." Janet smiled as she sat at her desk; "It's always nice to have people come back to me after they've used fertility treatments."
"It's great." John smiled proudly, "Although I loved Dr. Maxwell."
"They all do." She chuckled. "Any names picked out?" Janet laughed to herself, "J names I suppose."
"We actually have been talking about names." Jing-Mei said, "Well John has."
"Jakob if it's a boy and Jessica if it's a girl." He said.
"Sounds great to me." Janet said, "Although I recommend Janet if it's a girl." Jing-Mei chuckled softly.
"I like Joyce." She said, "but we'll see."
"All right. Let's get this show on the road." Janet said. The women talked for the first fifteen minutes going over the routine stuff. Janet figured out that Jing-Mei's due date was August 6th, so Susan wasn't too far off. "Would you like to look at the baby?" John nodded.
"God, yes. I really need to see it." John was grinning from ear to ear. Jing-Mei chuckled as she climbed up onto the table.
"All right, All right, Dr Carter." Janet smiled softly. She squirted the gel onto her stomach. Jing-Mei squirmed as it touched her.
"God, that's cold." She giggled. John kissed her head softly.
"Always is." Janet smiled as she started the scan. "Dr. Lewis did the first one?" Jing-Mei nodded as she watched the screen.
"Yeah. She didn't find any more than one baby." She laughed. The baby flipped around on the screen. John smiled. He couldn't help the tears in his eyes.
"It's gorgeous." John whispered as he stared at the screen. He couldn't believe that was his child. It was so amazing. Technology was amazing.
"Well, the baby is extremely healthy and it's just one." Janet smiled. Jing-Mei breathed a sigh of relief.
"Good. So August 6th…Great." She sat up as Janet washed off her stomach.
"Do the triplets know you're pregnant yet?" Janet asked. John shook his head as He helped Jing-Mei down.
"Not yet. We're going to wait. I don't think they'll fully understand it yet. Maybe. Maybe not." John shrugged.
"When I start showing more, we'll tell them or maybe when we find the sex out." Jing-Mei extended her hand, "Thank you so much, Janet." Janet nodded as John led his wife out to the waiting room. He looked at her and smiled. Now he knew why some people had five or more kids. This feeling in his heart was enough to carry him on for years.
January 21st, 2005
Week 12
Her belly was starting to swell already. It was great. She had almost forgot this feeling of something growing inside of her. She had only been pregnant for twelve weeks, but she could already tell it was very different than it was with the triplets. It was more like Michaels. Jing-Mei looked at John as he sipped his coffee.
"Do you realize come August I would have given birth to five children?" Jing-Mei said. John choked on his coffee and laughed.
"Yeah…You look good for having five kid thoughs." John said.
"Three pregnancies though." Jing-Mei pointed out. John nodded and looked back at the newspaper. She smiled watching him.
"You're staring at me, Deb." He said not looking up from his newspaper. She chuckled.
"No I'm not." John looked up at her, "All right. I am." Jing-Mei stared into John's eyes even deeper. She blushed softly. He still had the ability to make her blush even after these few years they've been together. She was so thrilled she was having another one of his children.
"Come here." John stood up and took her hand. She arched her eyebrow and looked at him questioningly. "Don't worry. I'm not going to murder you."
"I know. It's just odd that youre kidnapping me like this." She winked. John chuckled as he led his wife into the living room. The fire was crackling in the fireplace. She smiled softly as She sat on the couch. She stroked her small bump slowly. John went over to the bookcase and pulled out a photo album, "Oh lord."
"Don't oh lord me." John chuckled and nestled on the couch next to his wife. "The history of John and Deb." She nodded.
"It's very scary." She said as he opened up the photo album. Every month they added two or three pictures to the pages. The book started out with hospital pictures from the day they both were born to pictures from Jing-Mei's birthday recently.
"No it's not." He said opening up to the page of photos of when Jing-Mei and John had chicken pox. Jing-Mei burst out laughing.
"You could connect the dots on me." She shook her head.
"I'm worse." John said, "I had them on my tongue." Jing-Mei wrinkled her nose as they flipped over to their prom pictures.
"1987. God, that was a bad year to go to the prom. Big hair or crimped hair, a lot of make up, and terrible dresses." Jing-Mei said.
"But you sort of looked cute." John said.
"Oh no I didn't. There's nothing about that that was cute." Jing-Mei laughed. John chuckled.
"All right. How about this picture?" John flipped over to a picture of Jing-Mei when she was twenty-five weeks pregnant with the triplets. She looked like she swallowed two watermelons. Jing-Mei groaned loudly as she protectively put her hand around her bump.
"I better not get even close to that big this time around." She said. John chuckled softly flipping to pictures of him holding the triplets for the first time. Jing-Mei watched John's eyes twinkle. She smiled slightly. "You're an amazing father, John." He looked at her and smiled.
"You're an amazing mother." He said.
"Is this what you wanted to show me?" She asked him. John nodded flipping to the pictures to her latest birthday party.
"You're loved, Deb. You have three little humans that love you." John said, "Sure it'll be hard to have a new baby in the house, but we have the resources to help us this time around. It won't be as bad as it was last time." Jing-Mei chuckled.
"It wasn't that bad." She said thinking back to it. "Yeah we had three screaming newborns, but they were healthy. They didn't come too early. We were blessed." John slipped his arm around her shoulders.
"We are blessed." He kissed her temple. This baby was an example of that. No fertility drugs, just love. John smiled softly kissed Jing-Mei again. Josephine walked into the living room rubbing her eyes.
"Watchin' toons." She said climbing up onto the couch with her parents. Jing-Mei chuckled.
"Is Josslyn still asleep?" She asked flipping on the television. Josephine nodded as she snuggled into John. He smiled at his daughter. He was so glad this family was expanding.
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