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"Come on Jody! Granny's made you lunch!" Zoe called up the stairs to Jody. She immediately dropped her book and ran down stairs to the kitchen.
"Thanks Granny." She said, sliding herself into a seat at the table. In no time at all, the four of them tucked into their lunch, a roll and square sausage each. The finished quickly and moved back through to the living room.
"Well mum, we'd better get off." Zoe said.
"Yes dear, thanks for coming. And Zoe, this time, don't take so long to come back." She smiled, Zoe smiled back.
"We won't mum, promise." At this moment, without hesitation, Jody threw both of her arms around her gran and hugged her tightly. The old woman wrapped her arms around Jody in response.
"I love you angel." She said.
"I love you too Granny." They let go.
"See you Nick." She kissed him quickly on the cheek.
"Bye Elizabeth."
"Bye, and you mind and take care of my little Zoe, especially in her condition." She chuckled as she watched them get into the car and drive off.
Zoe sighed for the millionth time in the space of ten minutes. She was cooped up in Nick's office. Again. Banned from treating patients because of her condition. Nick had a point though, it's hard to treat patients when you're eight and a half months pregnant. You're stomach gets in the way of everything. The past couple of months had passed quickly. Not too many dramas. Jody's mum had woken up and was recovering, however, Jody still refused to see her. The woman wrote a lot, but Jody kept ripping the letters up and binning them before she even read them. Everyone has given up on the idea of their reunion. Bored, she decided to take a walk downstairs to see Nick. She walked through to cubicles and found him engrossed in the treatment of a 4 year old patient who had somehow managed to wedge a toothbrush in his ear. Hard. Once he had finished, he came over to her.
"Hello you, how are you?" He asked her.
"I'm good, just bored. Listen, I'm going to get into a taxi and pick Jodes up from school, okay?" He nodded.
"Sounds good. Just, for goodness sake, be careful. And take your phone!" He said.
"Will do. See you in a bit." She kissed his cheek. See you.
The taxi pulled up outside the school just as Jody walked out of the gates. She smiled as she saw Zoe getting out of the taxi and rushed over to her.
"Hey mum." She said, as they got into the taxi.
"Hey. Good day?" Jody nodded. "Want an ice cream?" Jody beamed.
"Love one." Zoe smiled at her and turned to the driver.
"Take us to the foreshore please?" He nodded and began to drive. Zoe whipped out her phone and texted Nick, just to let him know that they were heading for an ice-cream. In no time at all, the driver pulled up outside the ice cram parlour on the coast line. Zoe paid him and then she and Jody got out. Jody noticed that Zoe hadn't left her stomach alone the whole journey. She had thought nothing of it until Zoe's face suddenly twisted in pain, and then suddenly relaxed again, as if nothing had happened.
"Okay mum, whats wrong. And don't say nothing, because that wasn't nothing." She said.
"Ach, my stomach's a bit achey. Nothing to worry about, I haven't had much to eat, that's all. It'll pass. Come on now, lets get an ice cream." They ordered two choc mint ice creams and went for a walk along the shore. Zoe kept grimacing in pain though, and Jody was getting really worried.
"Mum, are you sure you're all right? Can't I phone dad just in case?" She asked, but Zoe shook her head.
"No. I'm fine. Promise." She just finished her sentence when she was hit with a wave of pain like she had never felt pain before in her life. She let out a scream that would've frightened the French and Jody nearly had a heart attack.
"That's it. I'm phoning dad!" She exclaimed.
"No... Not Nick... Ambulance... I need... Ambulance... Its the baby Jodes, its coming!" Jody froze as if she'd just been punched in the chest.
"O-okay. Hold on." She guided Zoe to a near by bench, where she experienced yet another contraction and her waters broke.
"Crap!" Zoe exclaimed. "Jody, ambulance!"
"Yep!" She dialled the number
"Hello. What service do you require?" The woman asked.
"Ambulance please."
"Okay. Putting you through." Jody waited a few seconds.
"Hello, what's your emergency?"
"My mum's in labour on the Holby Foreshore. Her waters broke like two seconds ago."
"Okay, remain calm. The foreshores a big place, anything more specific?"
"Um, we're across the road from the shoe shop. Flossy's I think. On a bench."
"Great. How old is your mum sweetie?"
"Mum, how hold are you?" Jody asked Zoe.
"39. Arghhh!"
"She's 39." Jody said into the phone."
"Okay, and her name?"
"Zoe Jordan."
"How pregnant is she?"
"34 weeks."
"Okay, keep her calm. An ambulance will be with you shortly." The phone clicked off as they hung up.
"Mum, the ambulance is on its way. Stay calm okay?" Zoe just nodded, not wanting to open her mouth for fear of screaming.
"Crazy question mum, how long have you had the "achy stomach" which was Actually labour pains, for?"
"Um, a couple of, arrghh, hours!" She gasped.
"Crap mum! You should have told dad!" She groaned.
"I know. Listen Jody! I'm about to give birth to one of the most impatient babies in all of history. I need you to, arrghh, quit the lectures, and look to see if it's crowning!"
"What! Mum! I can't! I won't know!"
"Jodes! Just lift my skirt and tell me if you can see the baby's head! It's important!"
"Okay, okay." She lifted the skirt, gently pulled Zoe's Underwear down and looked for the baby.
"Well?"
"Yeah, you can see a part of its head."
"Crap. I knew it! I'm fully dilated. I need to push! Arrgh! Jody, make sure you're down there to deliver if the paramedics don't get here in time." Jody nodded and did as she was told. With the next contraction, Zoe pushed down, hard. She moaned as she did so. Jody struggled to stay conscious as she watched for the baby. The contraction ended and Zoe got a rest. Panting, she managed to stutter.
"If this kid... is born... on this... bench, I think... Nick... Will kill... Us both." Jody laughed slightly.
"I agree." She said, just as another contraction hit Zoe and she began to push again.
"Arrrrggghhhh!" She groaned as she did so.
"Crap mum! Its coming out further! It's whole forehead is showing!" Through her pain, Zoe still managed to laugh at Jody's reaction.
"That's... supposed to... happen...if you... Think it needs it... Put... Your hand... Under its head... Fr support." She panted. Another contraction came and she pushed. This time, the rest of the baby's head exited, gently guided by Jody's loving touch.
"Thats it mum, the head's out. Now. If you push, I'll gently pull, let's get this kid out. I'm dying to know what it is!"
"Okay." Another wave of pain crashed in on Zoe. She pushed twice as hard as Jody pulled, gently. They were both met with the sounds of the baby's cry and ambulance sirens simultaneously.
"Mum its a girl!" Jody exclaimed, lifting the baby from underneath the skirt and handing her to Zoe. Zoe took her and cradled her in her arms.
"She's beautiful." She whispered, her voice too thick with tears to work properly. The paramedics got to them just in time for Zoe to deliver the placenta.
"Zoe!" Dixie exclaimed as she saw what was happening.
"Dixie. Quick, we need to... Het her in... She's early... About three... Weeks early."
"Okay darl', stay calm. We'll be fine." She said. Jody stood back and watched as they cut the cord and clamped the baby's stomach etcetera, etcetera. Before long, she was getting in the ambulance alongside Zoe and they were off.