I cant believe that I got this big... Bosco keeps telling me that its because
I am carrying a Boscorelli baby.. and that both he and his brother were big
as babies.. I still don't think that its because of that.. I wasn't this
big with either Em or Charlie.. I just entered the first week of my ninth
month... I decided to go on maternity leave a month early because I just got
so big.. soon after I left the hospital I went to a desk job.. I hated desk
jobs but after begin beaten into a coma.. that was the wake up call that I
couldn't be on the street while I was pregnant... just couldn't happen.. I
couldn't take the chance of having something happen to the baby.. Bosco
went to Swersky and told him to put me on a desk job.. but I got lucky he
knows how much I hate working front desk so I got something in the back
working for Narcotics... so everyone at the station had as much fun as I had
watching me get bigger and bigger.. when I left for my mat leave they threw
me a shower and I got everything that I would need for the baby... figuring
that Charlie was 14 now its been a while since I needed baby things.. so
Bosco and I only had to get a crib and a changetable.
Bosco's key in the door made me turn my head around from the kitchen where I had been putting the final touches on dinner.. The baby had been moving around all day so I hadn't felt like eating much but now I was starving and ready to have dinner with my husband
"Hey baby I'm Home..." Bosco steps though the door I can tell by the tone in his voice that he had a rough day.. I peek around the corner and see that he is stooped over and weary..
"Hi Boz.. dinner is ready honey"
"good because I am starving!!"
I put the plates on the table and watch him as he sits down and tucks into his food.. in between bites he tells me about his day and how he had hooker duty with Monroe..
"She is good.. but just not as good as you are.. Baby I cant wait till you come back to work... I like working with Monroe but all she is talking about is her wedding to Ty.."
I laugh and pop the last bite of food in my mouth, feeling contented that now I actually have something in my stomach and I feel somewhat better.. I get up from the table slowly.. Damnit I feel like I am a walking whale.. I have to stand sideways at the sink now because my belly is so big that I cant reach the sink if I am standing forward..
"It's going to be soon baby.." Bosco comes up behind me and wraps his arms around me.. I lean back and relish in his embrace.. I am so lucky to be married to a man who loves me so much.. and I love him back.. we have been partners and best friends for ages now and never once has he treated me badly..
"I hope your right... I feel like a walking house..."
I feel his hands circle around my waist and come to rest on the baby.. as if the baby knows who's hands they are I feel a small foot kick out against his hand.. The baby wont do that for anyone but Bosco.. when you are pregnant your stomach becomes public property.. everyone wants to feel the baby.. I don't mind it for the most part but there are somedays where you just want your stomach to be your own again..
I finish cleaning up and follow Bosco up to bed.
I felt it before I even opened my eyes.. I snap them open and look at the clock on the nightstand.. its 2:00 in the morning.. Beside me Bosco slumbers his arms wrapped over the baby.... No it cant be.. its too soon for that.. I still have another month.. maybe it was the baby just kicking.. I start to drift back to sleep when I feel it again.. yup its defiantly a contraction..
I groan aloud and breathe heavily as the next one follows a couple of minutes later.. beside me Bosco stirs and looks over at me sleepily..
"you allright Fai..."
"Bosco... I think its time..."
"What? So soon?" he sits bolt upright in bed and looks at me with concern written over his face..
I nod my head as another contraction ripples though my belly, they are getting worse now.. Bosco leaps out of bed and pulls on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt as he pulls out some clothes for me.. I know from past experience that my labor never lasted long... with Em and Charlie I delivered them within a couple of hours after starting to feel contractions.. I had a sneaky suspicion that this was going to be the same way.. and its true what they say after each child you deliver it gets easier.. or at least faster...
I am sitting on the bed panting though contraction after contraction as they get more severe.. and then a cold wave washes over me as I realize that I don't think that were going to make it to the hospital in time...
"Bosco.." I pant out.. "I don't think that were gonna make it.... The baby's comin Boz!"
"Are you sure?" he looks at me terrified..
I nod my head and lay back on the bed as he looks between my legs..
"Oh my god I can see the head..." Bosco is on the cordless dialing the paramedics.. We live on the border of the precinct.. so we know that as soon as Bosco announces himself to dispatch as a member of the 55 they will dispatch a bus from our area..
I feel the overwhelming urge to push and I know that there is no waiting for the paramedics now.. I know that this baby isn't going to wait for anyone..
"Bosco.. you are going to have to deliver this child... I cant wait anylonger.. this baby isn't going to wait for anyone" I manage to pant out between the squeezing pain and the urge to push.
Bosco looks at me with terror and I assure him that its going to be allright.. and I would have smacked him if I wasn't in so much pain and delivering a baby when he made the crack about getting the catchers mitt.. The dispatcher was talking him though the process while he was calling out encouragement to me.. I screamed as the head passed followed by the shoulders and then with one final push I felt the baby slip from me.. I heard the lusty cry just as the paramedics came rushing into the room..
Bosco held up the baby, who was now fully wailing its discontent on being brought into the world. Bosco looks at me and I can see the tears streaming down his face as he places the baby on my breast..
"It's a Boy Faith.. you did it.. I have a son... My god Faith he's beautiful"
I am in some state of delirium as I blindly see the paramedics checking us over.. and then I look up and see that its Holly.. and some other girl I have never seen before.. I think she said her name was Grace.. I look over at the clock as Holly takes the baby from me and wraps him in a blanket while cooing that he is beautiful and that he is a special child.. that he didn't want to wait to enter the world its 3:50am.....
Charlie peeks his head around the doorframe and enters sheepishly into the room.. Bosco and I call him over to see his new baby brother.. They load me up on a stretcher saying that they needed to take me to the hospital just to be checked out by a doctor. They roll me out on load myself and the baby into the waiting bus, Bosco follows Holly in while Grace drives to Mercy.
I was talking to Holly in the back when I felt my belly tighten.. Hello!! This isn't normal! I groan and grip the side of the stretcher as another one rips though my belly.. and then I feel another soon after that.. Holly sees my discomfort and tells me that it is probably the placenta being passed.. well I have been there twice before this and trust me this is NOT a placenta... I grab by belly when I feel another wave of pain pass though me..
"Grace! Pull over! NOW!" Holly shouts out to her partner.. Bosco who was holding the baby, was sitting by my head and I looked up at him.
"baby what's going on? Your scaring me..."
Holly looks between my legs and looks up at me with wide eyes..
"Faith.. were you expecting more than one? Because you're crowning again.. there is another baby on the way.."
"WHAT?"
Bosco looks shocked as I get the urge to bear down and push.. I grip the sides of the gurney and push with everything that I have.. as Holly prepares to catch our unexpected arrival.. After about 20 more minutes of pushing I feel the baby slip from me.. and soon after I hear another lusty cry fill the bus as another baby enters the world.. I let my head fall back against the pillow at the top of the stretcher, totally exhausted from giving birth twice in a night..
"Grace.. time of birth 4:30am"
"Gotcha!" I hear her call from the other side of the bus..
"You have a little girl... Congratulations mamma.." Holly wraps her in another blanket and places the whimpering infant on my chest..
I look up at Bosco.. he is totally beside himself.. but then again so am I.. the doctors said that there was only one baby that they could see on the ultrasound.. and they only heard one heartbeat when they listened during my last check up.. I was supposed to go for another one in two days to check on the baby..
"Faith.."
"Yeah Boz?"
"I'm a daddy.. TWICE in one night.. God Faith I love you..." he leans over and plants a kiss on my weary lips as Grace takes off to mercy with Holly and the now four of us in the back..
Charlie was beside himself as well when we told him that he had a younger sister to go with the little brother that we just gave him... Emily shrieked when we told her about the twins
The doctors were just as baffled as we were when they found out about it.. the OB that I had chosen to deliver the baby had told me that sometimes you cant see twins on the ultrasound and that one twin might cover the other ones heartbeat with their own. Either way Bosco was beside himself with joy.. he had both a boy and a girl.. both at the same time.. he kept telling me that it was all that he could ask for.
Rose and Mikey were over the moon as was my mom.. I felt a little twinge of sorrow because Dad passed away last year from liver failure.. I guess all his drinking finally did him in..
We named the boy Gawen Louis Boscorelli and the Girl Sianna, Elaria Boscorelli, I watch as Bosco holds one in each arm beaming from ear to ear at what we have been blessed with as I slowly let my eyes close, allowing me to enter a peaceful, well deserved sleep.
Bosco's key in the door made me turn my head around from the kitchen where I had been putting the final touches on dinner.. The baby had been moving around all day so I hadn't felt like eating much but now I was starving and ready to have dinner with my husband
"Hey baby I'm Home..." Bosco steps though the door I can tell by the tone in his voice that he had a rough day.. I peek around the corner and see that he is stooped over and weary..
"Hi Boz.. dinner is ready honey"
"good because I am starving!!"
I put the plates on the table and watch him as he sits down and tucks into his food.. in between bites he tells me about his day and how he had hooker duty with Monroe..
"She is good.. but just not as good as you are.. Baby I cant wait till you come back to work... I like working with Monroe but all she is talking about is her wedding to Ty.."
I laugh and pop the last bite of food in my mouth, feeling contented that now I actually have something in my stomach and I feel somewhat better.. I get up from the table slowly.. Damnit I feel like I am a walking whale.. I have to stand sideways at the sink now because my belly is so big that I cant reach the sink if I am standing forward..
"It's going to be soon baby.." Bosco comes up behind me and wraps his arms around me.. I lean back and relish in his embrace.. I am so lucky to be married to a man who loves me so much.. and I love him back.. we have been partners and best friends for ages now and never once has he treated me badly..
"I hope your right... I feel like a walking house..."
I feel his hands circle around my waist and come to rest on the baby.. as if the baby knows who's hands they are I feel a small foot kick out against his hand.. The baby wont do that for anyone but Bosco.. when you are pregnant your stomach becomes public property.. everyone wants to feel the baby.. I don't mind it for the most part but there are somedays where you just want your stomach to be your own again..
I finish cleaning up and follow Bosco up to bed.
I felt it before I even opened my eyes.. I snap them open and look at the clock on the nightstand.. its 2:00 in the morning.. Beside me Bosco slumbers his arms wrapped over the baby.... No it cant be.. its too soon for that.. I still have another month.. maybe it was the baby just kicking.. I start to drift back to sleep when I feel it again.. yup its defiantly a contraction..
I groan aloud and breathe heavily as the next one follows a couple of minutes later.. beside me Bosco stirs and looks over at me sleepily..
"you allright Fai..."
"Bosco... I think its time..."
"What? So soon?" he sits bolt upright in bed and looks at me with concern written over his face..
I nod my head as another contraction ripples though my belly, they are getting worse now.. Bosco leaps out of bed and pulls on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt as he pulls out some clothes for me.. I know from past experience that my labor never lasted long... with Em and Charlie I delivered them within a couple of hours after starting to feel contractions.. I had a sneaky suspicion that this was going to be the same way.. and its true what they say after each child you deliver it gets easier.. or at least faster...
I am sitting on the bed panting though contraction after contraction as they get more severe.. and then a cold wave washes over me as I realize that I don't think that were going to make it to the hospital in time...
"Bosco.." I pant out.. "I don't think that were gonna make it.... The baby's comin Boz!"
"Are you sure?" he looks at me terrified..
I nod my head and lay back on the bed as he looks between my legs..
"Oh my god I can see the head..." Bosco is on the cordless dialing the paramedics.. We live on the border of the precinct.. so we know that as soon as Bosco announces himself to dispatch as a member of the 55 they will dispatch a bus from our area..
I feel the overwhelming urge to push and I know that there is no waiting for the paramedics now.. I know that this baby isn't going to wait for anyone..
"Bosco.. you are going to have to deliver this child... I cant wait anylonger.. this baby isn't going to wait for anyone" I manage to pant out between the squeezing pain and the urge to push.
Bosco looks at me with terror and I assure him that its going to be allright.. and I would have smacked him if I wasn't in so much pain and delivering a baby when he made the crack about getting the catchers mitt.. The dispatcher was talking him though the process while he was calling out encouragement to me.. I screamed as the head passed followed by the shoulders and then with one final push I felt the baby slip from me.. I heard the lusty cry just as the paramedics came rushing into the room..
Bosco held up the baby, who was now fully wailing its discontent on being brought into the world. Bosco looks at me and I can see the tears streaming down his face as he places the baby on my breast..
"It's a Boy Faith.. you did it.. I have a son... My god Faith he's beautiful"
I am in some state of delirium as I blindly see the paramedics checking us over.. and then I look up and see that its Holly.. and some other girl I have never seen before.. I think she said her name was Grace.. I look over at the clock as Holly takes the baby from me and wraps him in a blanket while cooing that he is beautiful and that he is a special child.. that he didn't want to wait to enter the world its 3:50am.....
Charlie peeks his head around the doorframe and enters sheepishly into the room.. Bosco and I call him over to see his new baby brother.. They load me up on a stretcher saying that they needed to take me to the hospital just to be checked out by a doctor. They roll me out on load myself and the baby into the waiting bus, Bosco follows Holly in while Grace drives to Mercy.
I was talking to Holly in the back when I felt my belly tighten.. Hello!! This isn't normal! I groan and grip the side of the stretcher as another one rips though my belly.. and then I feel another soon after that.. Holly sees my discomfort and tells me that it is probably the placenta being passed.. well I have been there twice before this and trust me this is NOT a placenta... I grab by belly when I feel another wave of pain pass though me..
"Grace! Pull over! NOW!" Holly shouts out to her partner.. Bosco who was holding the baby, was sitting by my head and I looked up at him.
"baby what's going on? Your scaring me..."
Holly looks between my legs and looks up at me with wide eyes..
"Faith.. were you expecting more than one? Because you're crowning again.. there is another baby on the way.."
"WHAT?"
Bosco looks shocked as I get the urge to bear down and push.. I grip the sides of the gurney and push with everything that I have.. as Holly prepares to catch our unexpected arrival.. After about 20 more minutes of pushing I feel the baby slip from me.. and soon after I hear another lusty cry fill the bus as another baby enters the world.. I let my head fall back against the pillow at the top of the stretcher, totally exhausted from giving birth twice in a night..
"Grace.. time of birth 4:30am"
"Gotcha!" I hear her call from the other side of the bus..
"You have a little girl... Congratulations mamma.." Holly wraps her in another blanket and places the whimpering infant on my chest..
I look up at Bosco.. he is totally beside himself.. but then again so am I.. the doctors said that there was only one baby that they could see on the ultrasound.. and they only heard one heartbeat when they listened during my last check up.. I was supposed to go for another one in two days to check on the baby..
"Faith.."
"Yeah Boz?"
"I'm a daddy.. TWICE in one night.. God Faith I love you..." he leans over and plants a kiss on my weary lips as Grace takes off to mercy with Holly and the now four of us in the back..
Charlie was beside himself as well when we told him that he had a younger sister to go with the little brother that we just gave him... Emily shrieked when we told her about the twins
The doctors were just as baffled as we were when they found out about it.. the OB that I had chosen to deliver the baby had told me that sometimes you cant see twins on the ultrasound and that one twin might cover the other ones heartbeat with their own. Either way Bosco was beside himself with joy.. he had both a boy and a girl.. both at the same time.. he kept telling me that it was all that he could ask for.
Rose and Mikey were over the moon as was my mom.. I felt a little twinge of sorrow because Dad passed away last year from liver failure.. I guess all his drinking finally did him in..
We named the boy Gawen Louis Boscorelli and the Girl Sianna, Elaria Boscorelli, I watch as Bosco holds one in each arm beaming from ear to ear at what we have been blessed with as I slowly let my eyes close, allowing me to enter a peaceful, well deserved sleep.