"I cannot believe you did not fetch me." Mother scolded us a few hours later.
Shem and I had spent our time alone feeding and naming the twins. We decided to name our daughter Naomi, a variant of Naameh, and our son Asher. After they had been feed and were napping, Shem left to tell the others and grab our other children. He had come back carrying the girls and was followed by mother who had Elijah in her arms. She had put him down and ran to my side in seconds. She checked my forehead and went between my legs to make sure I wasn't bleeding.
"Everything looks fine, how do you feel Ila?" she asked me, looking at the baby in my arms, "have you named them?"
"I am fine mother, just tired. This is Asher and Shem has Naomi in his arms." I informed her, handing Asher over.
"Mama look at me!" I heard Adah yell.
I looked over to see Adah sitting in Ham's lap holding Naomi. Adah had been very excited to see the babies but Evi had wanted nothing to do with them. She clung to Shem's leg as he was trying to get Elijah down.
"Here Shem hand him to me." I told him.
He came over and gave Elijah to me. He was still fussing but he had calmed down a bit in my embrace. I rocked him a bit and once he fell asleep I handed him back to Shem.
At this point everyone had come to see the babies and they were passing them around. It was very early in the morning and the other children had been put to sleep. Shem was sitting on the mattress with his arm around me, while mother was on my other side fussing over me. Ham and Na'el were sitting on a cushion taking turns holding and cooing over Asher while father had Naomi in his arms. Japheth was sleeping.
"She is so beautiful." Father exclaimed, "It is funny though, she looks like Shem did when he was first born. Except for the eyes of course, those are yours Ila."
"Are you saying I looked like a girl when I was born?" Shem asked him jokingly.
"For the longest time," Mother told him, "but your father is right, Naomi is the first one to look exactly like you Shem. The girls look like the both of you, Elijah if fully you Ila, and Asher looks, well, I think he looks a bit like me."
"He does." Na'el piped in, handing Asher over to mother.
"We should be going now, they will need to be fed soon and Shem and Ila must be tired." Father said, handing Naomi to me.
It took some time, but we finally got everyone to leave. I fed the twins and they had been put to sleep. I was still tired but I couldn't get myself to fall asleep. I turned over and stared at Shem, who was sleeping soundly. He was so beautiful. I thought back to when I wanted to find him a new wife, one who could give him pleasure and children. How stupid I was to almost give this up. Things would have been different if I had stayed barren, but would it have been a good different or a bad different.