*Epilogue*


After our midwife appointment we then were taken into another side room so we weren't waiting with other expecting mothers; this side room was dimly lit and after waiting for a few minutes a young blond haired woman greeted us happily as she entered the room.

"Hello Mrs Adams" she said politely as she shook my hand. "Hello Your Majesty" she said as she took Ben's hand and quickly shook it. "My name is Rosie and I will be your sonographer," she explained. "Sorry to keep you waiting" she advised as she rocked on her feet. " I was dealing with another patient" she explained.

"I hope everything is ok with mother and baby" Ben said as he squeezed my hand.

"Yes it was but it was the father I was dealing with-" she answered. "He'd just fainted after finding out that his wife was expecting quadruplets" she explained.

"Wow!" I exclaimed as Rosie walked up to her machine and turned it on. "Try to not faint when you see that I'm carrying a large litter of Beastie pups" I teased as I turned and looked over to Ben.

"I can only try" he chuckled before he pressed a kiss against my left cheek, before we both looked over to Rosie to see her smiling lovingly at me.

"Anyway moving on to you" Rosie said as she smiled at me. "The purpose of this scan isn't only so you get to meet your little one for the first time-" she started. "Which might I say is an absolute honour" she said excitedly. "But it is also to get more of an accurate date of the expected birth and age of your baby" she explained. "Also we check to make sure that baby is doing perfectly ok" she added. "The scan will take around twenty minutes" she continued, which caused me and Ben to nod at this.

"So if we could have you up on the couch Mal" she instructed as she patted the couch in front of me. I quickly did this and Ben dropped into the chair next to it. I smiled down at him when he slid his hand into mine and he gave it a squeeze. "And just move your top up and your jeans down slightly" she stated and I quickly did this. "Excuse me," Rosie said as she tucked tissue around my jeans and top. "Just so the gel doesn't go on your clothes" she said as I pulled a confused face at her. "It's a little devil for doing that," she chuckled. "Right" she said as she got a little pot out. "It will feel a little cold" she advised before she started to layer a coating of gel on the bottom of my stomach.

"Ooh" I said as I shuddered as the coldness.

"Sorry," Rosie said.

"It's ok," I replied.

"Now if you give me a couple of minutes to find them" she said eagerly as she placed a probe on my stomach and started to move it along my stomach. "Darn!" She muttered.

"What?" Me and Ben asked together. Was there something wrong with our baby? I thought Emma said that everything was ok.

"Don't worry" she said as she looked at our panicked faces. "Normally babies want to hide a little bit" she advised. "But yours wants to make sure that we know that they are there" she laughed.

"I see" I noted as Ben sighed.

"So you and your doctor are right" Rosie as she stared at the screen that was facing away from us. "Baby Adams is around twelve weeks old," she advised. "With an expected date of birth around the start of June" she added. "Good measurements for their age as well," Rosie said which made both me and Ben look at her. "Everything seems to be going well," she said happily. "Here you go" she said as she turned the screen to look at us. "Your baby" she said proudly.

"Where?" I asked as I looked at the black and white screen.

"There" she said as she pointed to a little shape then my eyes fixated on it. It already looked like a little baby; I could see an arm and a leg and a little head.

"They look well developed," Ben noted and I could tell that he was close to tears.

"Yeah at twelve weeks believe it or not, all your baby's limbs, organs, bones and muscles are fully-formed" Rosie advised happily.

"I see" I heard Ben's voice break as I couldn't take my eyes off our baby. This made things seem so real now that I was now looking at the little life that me and Ben had created. I knew one thing for definite I was going to love and protect this baby; they weren't going to through anything that my mother had put me through.

"Want to hear something amazing?" Rosie said breaking me out of my train of thought.

"Yeah" I replied as I watched as she flicked a switch on the machine which made a quick thudding fill the room. "What is that?" I asked.

"That is your baby's heartbeat" Rosie explained.

"Wow!" I said as my eyes widened as I continued to listen to my baby's heartbeat. I started to feel overwhelmed at this thought and I felt tears build up in my eyes which I quickly wiped away as I tried to control my emotions and hormones.

"Isn't it a little bit fast?" Ben asked bringing me back to reality as the same thought started to go around my mind as well.

"It's ok," Rosie advised. "Baby's and children's hearts tend to beat quicker than ours; it is completely normal," she explained further. "Well I can proudly tell you both that your baby is perfectly normal; growing normally with no abnormalities" she said proudly.

"When do we find out what gender the baby is?" Ben asked.

"That's if we want to know" I urged as I finally tore my eyes away from the screen to look at Ben.

"Yeah, but there's no harm finding out when we can if we want to," Ben said to me. "The Internet was a bit sketchy" he said as he looked at Rosie as my eyes returned to the screen.

"You can find out around sixteen to twenty weeks," Rosie advised. "But we tend to wait until twenty weeks as they will be more developed by that point" she explained further.

"Ok" Ben noted.

"That is something that we will need to discuss" I muttered.

"Yes" Ben agreed. "Can I have a picture?" Ben asked eagerly. "In fact more than one" he quickly added.

"There will be a charge, Your Majesty" Rosie advised. "Is that ok?" she questioned.

"That's fine," Ben said dismissively.

"How many?" Rosie asked.

"Six" Ben advised.

"Six?" I asked as I looked at him.

"I'll explain later" he muttered which made me nod and look back at our baby.

"What I will do is I will set them off to print; but I'll leave the room for a few minutes so you can have a moment to yourselves" I heard Rosie say.

"Thank you Emma" me and Ben said together.

"You're very welcome" she replied before she left the room to give me, Ben and our baby our first family moment together.


Hey guys, thank you again for coming on this journey with me. It has taken me a long to get to this point and I love the fact that the end is in sight; and I can't wait for you all to see where I have decided to take this series.

The next part of our series 'Learning to Love: Happily Ever After' is going to be posted after this story. Enjoy!

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