First smile

(I literally just changed two words in this chapter, but I changed a few others before this so I had to change this one to fit with those so it's not really that different.)

It had been about three weeks now since Derek and Meredith had brought their daughter home. Derek had gone back to work a few days after they brought her home and Meredith was scheduled to go back the next morning. For tonight they sat on the couch, cuddled together with Olivia on Meredith's chest.

"I don't want to leave her," Meredith said softly, not wanting to disturb the baby.

"I know," Derek agreed. He had had a hard time going back to work and knew Meredith would have an even harder time. They had hired a nanny for when one of them couldn't care for Olivia, but neither of them wanted her to grow up with a nanny and to never see their kid.

"Do you think she will miss me?" Meredith asked.

"Oh yeah. But she will love you just the same when you get home. It's only a few hours Mer, you will both be fine." Meredith nodded in agreement and held her daughter close for a little longer before putting her to bed and going to bed herself.

The next morning she had a hard time leaving when the time came. The nanny was perfect, older and motherly, but Meredith was still hesitant, much like any first time mother leaving their child. After an extra thirty minutes of fussing and instructions from Meredith, Derek managed to get her out of the house and to the hospital. Two hours later and she had called three times already, she was about to dial the number again, flipping open her phone when someone called out her name,

" Meredith!" she turned around to see Lexie walking towards her.

"What?" She asked, wanting to call the nanny again to make sure everything was ok.

"Who are you calling?"

"The nanny. I want to check on Olivia."

"How many times have you called already today?"

"Only three," Meredith said sheepishly.

"Meredith, just relax ok. Olivia is fine. If something was wrong the nanny would call you ok?" Lexie took the cellphone out of her hands right as their pagers went off. They both quickly ran to the ambulance bay, getting ready for the incoming trauma.

Five hours later Meredith was about ready to break down. The trauma that came into the pit had been a pregnant mother and her twin three year old daughters. They had been in a car accident and no one had been able to save them. It was a bad day for all of the doctors and Meredith just wanted to go home to her daughter. She finally changed into her street clothes and made her way home. When she walked in the door she was met with a screaming baby. She sighed and took her coat off before walking into the kitchen where the nanny was trying to feed Olivia a bottle. The nanny looked relieved when Meredith walked in,

"She won't take her bottle; I've been trying for ten minutes. And I've changed her and played with her and everything else," she said, panicking. Worried that Meredith would fire her she handed the baby to her mother. As soon as Meredith was holding her Olivia had stopped crying. Meredith looked into her daughters face,

"You just wanted mommy, didn't you sweet girl?" Meredith said to Olivia, who in turn had a huge grin spread across her face at the sound of Meredith's voice. Meredith felt herself get teary eyed at the sight of her daughter smiling. This was the first time that Olivia had really smiled at her and it was exactly what she had needed after such a terrible day. Meredith held her daughter close and smiled back.

IMPORTANT NOTE!
Ok, so I am still going to continue with Olivia's first moments, but I just want everyone to know that the chapters may be significantly shorter than some of my other ones or they may be normal length, it just depends on the subject. Just wanted to let everyone know. Hope you like it!