Chapter
Nine
Two days later the baby is healthy enough to go home
considering its early delivery.
Janeway is till very sore from the
surgery but she is excited to finally get out of
Sickbay. Janeway
takes the small bundle in her arms as the Doctor runs one final
scan
on the new mother and her child. Both are in excellent
condition.
"Well Captain Janeway, Isabella, you are free
to go home. But take your time it takes
a lot of effort to care
for a new infant are you sure you are ready?"
"We
are as ready as we can possibly be besides we have the greatest group
of people
on board. If we need any help they will jump at the
opportunity."
The Doctor nods as Janeway climbs off the
bed in slight pain and together the new
parents exit Sickbay.
A
few minutes later...
Janeway enters her quarters with her
husband and together they take the baby into her
room. Chakotay
had decorated it with butterflies. Her bedding and wall paper
has
butterflies on it and in small section of the wall hung her
father's medicine wheel. The
walls were a soft lavender with a
hint of pink in the corners. In a corner sat a white
rocking chair
with a matching crib, her father made. Janeway was in awe at the
amazement of the nursery. Inside their room lies a white bassinette
where she will spend the first part of her life next to her
mother.
"Chakotay I think Isabella likes her room. She is
cooing. Maybe she knows how much
time and effort her father put
into this room."
"Well someday she will find out how
precious she was to us and all of our children
will know."
"I
had better go get her fed she is hungry. I will be right back
Chakotay."
"Do you want me to make a bottle?"
"No
I am going to try and nurse her. My milk should be in by now sorry
you can't do
it. Maybe next time I will make a bottle and you can
feed her. You have the morning
shift."
"You
should rest as soon as you are finished Isabella needs her mother to
be as
healthy as she can be in order for her to keep up with
her."
"I will Chakotay I promise now I have to feed
my baby will you excuse me?"
"Sure when do you think
you will be finished?"
"The Doctor said that I
should only nurse twenty minutes at a time."
"Okay I
will see you in twenty minutes."
Chakotay leaned over and
kissed his daughter on the forehead and Janeway walked in
to the
next room to feed her daughter.
Twenty minutes
later...
"Well, she is ready for a nap she was very
hungry. I filled a bottle while she was
feeding it is on the
changing table could you go and get it and put it in the warmer
you
have the next shift."
"I thought I had the
morning shift?"
"You do I just thought that you
wanted to feed her in two hours to get some fatherly
bonding with
his daughter. You don't mind do you?"
"Of course I
don't."
Janeway and Chakotay walk into their bedroom and
lay Isabella down in the bassinet
and soon she drifts off into a
quiet slumber. Listening to the sounds of nature, the
sounds her
father grew up listening too.
A few hours later Isabella woke
up and was ready for another bottle Janeway was
asleep in the room
and moved she awoke at the sound of her daughter's cries.
"It's
okay Kathryn I will get her you go back to sleep. Besides it's my
turn to feed her
remember."
"Yeah I forgot.
Thanks honey for taking care of her."
"Hey you
weren't the only one who made her I think I had a pretty big part in
it you
know. I believe you just laid there right while the Doctor
inserted you with my seed
right?"
Janeway laughs
lightly but groans in pain.
"Are you sure you are okay? I
can contact the Doctor."
"No I'm just fine, a little
sore from the surgery. The Doctor said I would be for a week
or
two."
"Okay now I have to feed our daughter I don't
want her to starve."
"Okay go get the bottle I will
take her out of the bassinet."
Chakotay nods and moves
into the joining room to retrieve the bottle Janeway filled
earlier.
This was going to be the best time of his life. Well until they had
another
baby.
TBC...