Chapter 4

8 months later and Abby was in full Bloom, 2 days until her due date John had her cooped up at home not lifting a finger. She had stopped working at 6 months due to Johns persistence that "a Busy City ER was no place for a pregnant woman". Kerry wasn't to pleased that Abby had left when she they were already short staffed and as she leaned on Abby as a doctor rather than a nurse on countless occasions she also down a semi-doctor. She was still doing the nurse managers job from home, sending John in with the staffing rota's and such like and holding meetings at their house for all the nurses weekly. She made sure that they were held when john was at work, she said it was so that he wouldn't be disturbed but the real reason was that she knew he would soon take them over and insist that she wasn't fit to be doing it.

Sometimes he was too over protective for her liking but she knew he meant well and loved him for it.

The nursery was finished, she wouldn't let him even start it until she was 6 months so as not to jinx the whole thing. It was a nice sunny yellow with a rocking chair in one corner, a cot by the window, a small changing table and a handsome chest of drawers they had found at a local flea market one weekend; which was already full of baby clothes and countless other items she had either purchased or been given. She didn't want anything else in it as yet as the baby would soon accumulate possessions of its own over the years.

Time went so slowly home alone all day, she couldn't exactly be a lady of leisure and go out socialising with her friends because all her friends worked at the ER, and she didn't really like going out shopping, even though John said she could use her credit card she never really found anything she really wanted. Susan and Chen would think she was mad, not splashing out with a man credit card in her pocket.

Her and John had agreed that there would not be a full time nanny, if and when Abby wants to go back to work someone would be taken on to look after their child, Abby remembers the night they talked about all of it, the pain in johns eyes as he recalled having to grow up with hired help being his parents and hardly spending time with his actual parents. He said he never wanted that to happen to any child of his, and Abby agreed whole heartedly.