A/N- Here is the next chapter; baby time! It took a little longer than I thought it would for me to upload this. But I did a little research on triplet birth, so I hope that the information in here accurate. I do hoep that you enjoy this chapter.
"Calliope, you better drive faster!" Arizona yelled to her wife. It hadn't even been 5 minutes since they left their house, but the contractions that she was experiencing were painful. They weren't close together, but the couple that she had had since their movie night was interrupted were long and horrendous.
"If I go any faster, one, I'll be way over the speed limit, two, there's the possibility of being pulled over, and three, we could get into a car accident. I'm not taking any chances of those happening."
"But this hurts."
"You've had only, what, three contractions? We only have a couple more minutes until we get to the hospital. You can make it until then."
"Callie, drive faster! Wait, why are you…dammit." They had hit a red light while they were arguing over driving faster. And now Arizona was experiencing another contraction. She yelled ear piercingly loud while she waited for the pain to subside.
"Here, why don't you call your parents? I'm sure that they would love to hear the news," Callie said as she handed Arizona her cell phone.
"Fine, if you insist. But you better drive faster."
"When the light turns green, I'll think about it."
"Callie," Arizona muttered as she dialed her parent's number. They would be thrilled to hear that they will be the proud grandparents of the triplets in a short amount of time. Hopefully Arizona wouldn't make them deaf with her yelling.
The phone rang three times before Arizona could hear the faint voice that belonged to her mother.
"Hello?"
"Hey, mom."
"Arizona? Is everything okay? You never call this late, it's almost 11pm."
"Yeah, I'm…" Another contraction caused Arizona to yelp in pain. "I'm in labor. Callie thought it would be a nice idea to give you a call and let you know. Truthfully, I think she just wanted to shut me up."
"You're in labor? We're going to be grandparents again!" Arizona could almost see her mom smile through the phone.
"Yeah, we're on our way to the hospital now."
"I have got to tell your father! He's going to be thrilled. You definitely have to send us pictures of the babies, and we will do our best to get out there as soon as possible. Okay, be safe and I love you."
"Bye mom, I love you too." Arizona hung up the phone and noticed that they were pulling into the hospital parking lot. Dr. Cruz, Teddy, and Bailey were waiting for them with a wheelchair for Arizona.
"Are you ready to have some beautiful babies?"
It had been three and a half hours since Callie pulled into the hospital and Arizona's contractions were still several minutes apart. Both of them were longing for their babies to be born, but even if Arizona was in labor, the babies were waiting the longest they could before coming out.
"Can't they just come out already? This pain isn't any fun."
"They'll come out when they're ready. It's only been four hours since your first contraction. You know, some people have to wait a couple of days before the baby's ready to come out."
"You're not any help Callio…. AHHHH!"
"Sorry that you're hurt by the truth. It's 3am now, hopefully in a few hours you'll be ready to push the babies out. Can you…" Callie was interrupted as Dr. Cruz walked into the room.
"How are you feeling Arizona?"
"Like I'm in labor and the babies don't want to come out."
"Fair enough, but hopefully soon you'll be able to have them. You're about 7cm right now, and we want you to be fully dilated before you can push. We have NICU ready for the babies; they looked healthy during your last ultrasound, but just in case." Arizona threw her head on to the pillow of the hospital bed. She clearly didn't want to wait any longer with the pain that the contractions were causing.
Dr. Cruz decided that it would be a good idea to leave them in the privacy of the room until it was time for the babies to come. She walked out of the room and made sure that the door was closed behind her. Arizona just groaned as she felt another contraction coming, sooner than the last one had come.
"We should probably let Mark know that he is going to have to keep Sofia at his house for another day or two."
"You just told me that it's 3 in the morning, he must be sleeping right now. Sofia is quite a handful for him and Lexie with the stories that they share with us."
"Even so, I'll just send him a quick text. He'd most likely want to know that neither of us will be able to pick up Sofia from school."
"Alright, you do that. I'm just going to stay here and not have a baby."
"Arizona, you're in labor. This is big, huge even. The babies will come; just calm down and relax. Our family is going to be big and beautiful. We're going to have four wonderful children, but it takes time."
"Easy for you to say, you're not the one in labor." Another contraction hit Arizona in just perfect timing. Being a smart ass to her wife, karma has a wicked way of getting her back for that.
By 8am, Arizona was ready to start pushing. She couldn't be more pleased that the contractions would be over soon.
During the hours before Arizona was fully dilated, Callie got a hold of Mark and they agreed that after the babies were born, Mark would bring Sofia to the hospital instead of school to spend time with her family. Sofia was thrilled that she was finally going to be able to see "her" baby and her mommy's and her momma's baby. She called them each of their special babies for the way they would be named.
"Okay Arizona, on the count of three, I want you to start pushing. 1-2-," Arizona pushed as hard as she possibly could. Dr. Cruz and her went through the same routine for a little over 3 hours. Callie and Arizona were more than delighted with the new additions to their family. Arizona was finally through her pregnancy, and the sound of their babies crying was more than tear jerking.
They were one of the lucky couples, having all three of their babies born healthy at only 33 weeks, granted it was the average time that most women give birth to triplets. They were given the joy of being proud parents to one boy and identical twin girls.
Dr. Cruz told them that she believed that they would only have to stay in the NICU for observation hopefully for one or two days. They definitely were lucky.
Their babies were coming close to 3 hours old when Sofia finally came to the hospital. She was excited, and her daddy told her that her mommies left the name giving quiet until she got there. Nobody knew the name for their children just yet, except for Callie, Arizona, and Sofia.
Arizona was in recovery when they finally saw their beaming six year old run through the hospital. She ran as fast as her six year old legs could carry her.
"Hey baby, how was your day?"
"Can I see the babies now? Please mommy!"
"Shh, quiet down Sofia. We can go down in a little while and hopefully see them. You have a little brother and two little sisters." Sofia wasn't as excited as she would be if it would have been all girls, but she was more than pleased with two little sisters and a brother.
Around 1pm, all of their friends started piling into their tiny hospital room. They wanted details of their new additions. The babies weren't in the room, but the family wasn't going to skip a beat on discussing what they already knew about their kids.
"Come on, share," Teddy pleaded with Arizona. They had asked her to be their kid's godmother long before their expected due date. She wanted all the details that she could about her new godchildren.
"Our first born of the triplets, baby A, is a beautiful baby boy by the name of Ethan Timothy Torres-Robbins. He was born at 8:02 this morning at a whopping 4 pounds," Arizona fulfilled part of Teddy's pleads. She held the name "Timothy" in a high place in her heart. It was a name of honor, bravery, and courage in her family.
"Sofia, why don't you share baby B's name with everyone? You chose such a pretty name."
"Okay, momma, baby b is named Charlotte Lillian Torres-Robbins. I picked it out from my two favorite characters in the book daddy always reads me."
"Charlotte was born at 9:00 in the morning at three pounds nine ounces," Arizona finished sharing the information for their second born.
Callie was finally able to share the information regarding their fourth and last child. She couldn't be any happier with the family that she was blessed with, and she was finally going to be able to stop calling them baby A, baby B, and baby C.
"Our fourth and final baby, baby C, is a beautiful baby girl. Identical to her older sister, Charlotte, and her name is Adalynn Grace Torres-Robbins. She was born at 9:56 at three pounds eight ounces."
Everyone was in awe of the babies, even though they hadn't been able to physically see them, other than Arizona and Callie. As soon as everyone started to slowly leave the room to give the family their privacy and the last few opportunities for quiet, Arizona had fallen asleep. Callie took the opportunity to bring Sofia to the NICU. It was the first time that they had been there for any purpose other than work since Sofia was discharged.
Not only did Callie take this as an opportunity to let Sofia meet her brother and sisters, but to also let her see where she spent the first months of her life, the months where Callie, Arizona, and Mark didn't think that they would be able to bring her home. She felt an overwhelming rush of emotions when she walked into the NICU. This time, she knew that the babies were healthy for being born at 33 weeks old, but it was still emotional.
Sofia was in awe of all of her siblings, and she didn't want to leave 20 minutes later when Callie decided that they should get back to Arizona. She couldn't admit that she didn't want to leave the babies either, but she figured it wasn't fair that they got to spend all this time with the babies while they left Arizona in a tiny, unattractive hospital room. They finally made their way to Arizona's recovery room and waited until she woke up.
It's going to be a long and hard journey for the couple, but they were anticipating the ups and downs of their new family. The biggest obstacle that they would have to face now was getting the babies home and get into a schedule that would allow them to care for their children, work, and being able to get a break for themselves in somewhere.
A/N 2- Well, there you have it. Originally I planned on two boys and one girl, but this is the perfect little family, in my opinion anyways. I do hope you truly enjoyed it. Please R&R, it makes me happy and willing to write more, faster. After I update "And I'm Home", I am definitely going to be writing way too much for this story.
