chapter 2

Lion-o and Liosella have been married for two and half years and soon will get the surprise of their lives. Liosella went to the doctor awhile ago and her phone rang. "Hello? Yes. REALLY?! That's great bye," Liosella said.

Lion-o came up. "Liosella we need to get to work," Lion-o said.

"Oh the doctor called." Liosella said.

"What did he say?" Lion-o asked.

"He said I'm fine," Liosella said.

"That's great," Lion-o said.

Liosella started to feel sick at work and the others noticed. So one of them took her temperature. "No fever," said Dr. Vitter.

"Well you see I'm pregnant," Liosella said.

"Really?" the other doctors said.

"Yes," Liosella said.

"That's wonderful," Dr. Mant said.

"Yes and Lion-o does know yet I don't know how to tell him." Liosella said.

"He will find out eventually," said Dr. Alden.

"Yeah you must tell him," said nurse Jones.

"I will," Liosella said.

Lion-o came up. "Is everything alright over here?" he asked.

"Lion-o I have something to tell you," Liosella said.

"What do you have to tell me?" Lion-o asked.

"The doctor told me something else," she said.

"Is everything okay?" he asked.

"Yes," Liosella said. "I'm pregnant," she said.

Lion-o gasped and touched her middle. "Really you are going to have my baby?" he asked.

"Yes," she said.

Lion-o spun her around laughing. "What is going on in here?' a voice asked.

Lion-o and Liosella looked behind them it was Lion-o's mother she was still working as a pediatrician. She was a chief resident. Lion-o was probably going to be promoted to a chief resident too.

"Mom everything is just fine," Lion-o said.

"Are you sure?" Leona asked.

"Yes," Lion-o said.

"Well we have something to tell you," Liosella said.

"What is it?' Leona asked.

"I'm going to have a baby." Liosella said.

Leona gasped and looked shocked then she smiled. "I'm going to be a grandmother!" Leona said. "You and Lion-o must be so happy!" she said.

"We are we just found out," Liosella said.

Then Lion-o called his father who was training his cousin Leon to be CEO of the hospitals. "Hello, oh hey Lion-o, really? That is wonderful! Congratulations," he said. He told everyone at the office he was going to be a grandfather. All of the workers began to congratulate him.

"This is great news I hope your son is happy at the thought of becoming a father." a worker said.

Liosella called her parents and told them the good news. They were happy to hear it. "Oh sweetie that's wonderful if you need any advice let me know." her mother said.

Liosella was getting morning sickness almost everyday. Lion-o was there rubbing her back. Once she finished throwing up Lion-o gave her a wash clothe to wipe her face. "Thanks," she said.

Today was a doctor visit. Dr. Abben took a look. "Your baby is just fine," she said.

They began to discuss names. "What should we name our child?" Lion-o said.

"I don't know, but we came up with some that will be good," Liosella said.

Liosella's belly was starting to grow. Many of her patients noticed. They had many questions for her. The patients were children and it was a children's hospital. Liosella answered their questions.

Soon Liosella was seeing the doctor again. It was time for a check up. Dr. Abben was doing an ultrasound. "Congratulations it's a girl," she said.

"We're having a girl!" Liosella said.

"This wonderful I have always wanted a daughter." Lion-o said.

The doctor told them the cub was due in November.

They soon had a baby shower and got things for the baby. Tygra who was Lion-o's childhood friend was going to adopt a baby with his wife Cheetara that was going to be born in a couple of weeks and was already prepared for it.

"So is the baby you're adopting a boy or a girl?" Lion-o asked.

"The woman who is putting her baby up for adoption called us and told us it was a boy." Cheetara said.

"Yes we are naming him Bengali," Tygra said.

"I think little Bengali, will be good friends with our daughter Claudia," Liosella said.

"I'm still amazed you decided to name your daughter after me," Claudius said.

"Well you are the grandfather and we both liked the name Claudia," Lion-o said.

Soon time began to pass Liosella and Lion-o continued to work hard at the hospital. Liosella was very pregnant. She also had several of the symptoms back aches, swollen ankles, going to the bathroom constantly, headaches, tiredness and cravings. She would sometimes have late night cravings and like all of her pregnancy cravings it didn't go away until it was met. She would sometimes wake Lion-o in the middle of the night so he could get her what she was craving.

It drove Lion-o a little crazy.

Dr. Vitter asked them how many children they were planning on having. "We're not sure yet," Lion-o said.

It was now Halloween and Liosella and Lion-o dressed up in their costumes that day with other doctors to make the children happy. Liosella wore a maternity skeleton costume that had a skeleton baby girl in the stomach area. Lion-o wore a skeleton costume too.

Today he was showing a little boy in the emergency room who broke his arm where he broke it on his costume. The little boy laughed and forgot he was hurt. "You are a good doctor, my son forgot all about being hurt." the boys father said.

The little boy was in skeleton costume too. "Now you can be skeleton with cast." Lion-o said after putting the green cast on the boy's arm.

"I have a question,' the boy said.

"What is it?" Lion-o asked.

"How do bones heal?" he asked.

"You know that is very question, I have a video on it, you can watch it while your cast sets," Lion-o said then got out the video then put it on.

The boy watched to video. He was surprised. "So what did think of the video?' Lion-o asked.

"It was cool all that work just to heal a bone," he said.

"Well bones are very important they are the bodies framework with out them we would be blobs." Lion-o said.

The boy laughed again. "I heard laughing some must be feeling better," Liosella said coming in.

"Hey dear," Lion-o said. "This is my wife Liosella," he said.

"Hello, miss," the father said.

"Hi," the boy said. "Are you going to have a baby?" he asked.

"Yes," Liosella said.

"My mommy is going to have a baby right daddy?" the boy said.

"That's right in January," his father said. "So when is your baby doctor?" he asked.

"Next month it's our first baby," Liosella said.

"Congratulations, I'm telling you when you hold that baby for the first time you wouldn't believe the feeling, it's like when you look into that sweet innocent face, that cub becomes your whole world, I can see you are having a girl my son is going to have a baby sister," he said.

"That's great," Lion-o said.

"Well we better get going if want to start trick or treating," the boys father said. "thanks again," He said.

"It was no trouble," Lion-o said.

Soon it was November and Lion-o found himself watching Liosella like a she was a time bomb. But right now the Lamaze class. Liosella was taking to see if she might a be able to get through it all right, but she would take the medication if it was too much. The baby was three weeks away. But Lion-o knew sometimes babies don't arrive on schedule. So they had their bags packed and were ready to go if the time came.

Lion-o watched her closely to make sure he would be ready if she went into labor. "Do you think the cub will be coming today?" Dr. Vitter asked her.

"No I don't think so," Liosella said. "But I can tell it will be soon," she said.

Soon Liosella was just a week and half from her due date. Thanksgiving was next week and they were planning on seeing her parents then and spend the holiday with them. Liosella felt that time was drawing near.

Later Lion-o and Liosella were laying in bed having a good nights rest. Snarf was in his bed sleeping. Liosella had woken earlier and was having trouble going back to sleep she felt really uncomfortable. She felt a sharp pain that came then went away then it came back thirteen minutes later. She was having contractions. "Lion-o wake up it's time," she said.

Lion-o was wide awake. They grabbed the bag and rushed to the car. Lion-o began to drive Liosella to the hospital. They had finally made it to the hospital. Lion-o helped Liosella inside. Dr. Abben was there doing the night shift.

"So it is finally time, okay Liosella let's get you to your room," she said.

Liosella was laying in bed doing her breathing exercises. "You are doing great," Lion-o said. He was holding her hand.

six hours later at seven o clock in the morning the contractions became hard to bear. Dr. Abben took a look then got ready. "Liosella you are ready," she said. The nurses got ready. "Okay on the next contraction you are going to push," she said.

Liosella nodded she was ready to meet her baby. "Okay one, two, three push!" Dr. Abben said.

Liosella squeezed Lion-o's hand and he watched carefully. "Atta girl," Dr. Abben said.

After 10 minutes of pushing Claudia was born and she was now in Dr. Abben's hands. Claudia was crying loudly. Liosella and Lion-o started to cry to she was so beautiful.

Liosella was soon holding her daughter and kissed the little girl. "Hello sweetie, mommy and daddy have been waiting for you," she said.

Claudia was swaddled in a pink blanket and dozed off after getting a bottle.

Lion-o and Liosella were now proud parents.