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Chapter 39

"Hello Morgans." Kelly said walking into the exam room and smiling at her friends. "You are officially twelve weeks today. How are you feeling?"

"Good." Elizabeth told her friend.

"And you dad? How are you feeling?" Kelly looked over at Jason.

"Good too." He answered looking at his wife and smiling.

"Fantastic." Kelly pulled up Elizabeth's chart on the monitor. "We will do all the boring stuff first, and then we'll listen to the babies heartbeats. No ultrasound this appointment."

Both Elizabeth and Jason were excited to hear their children for the first time.

"All the blood work is back. Everything looks good. Hormone levels are where we would expect for twins. Blood pressure is good. Weight is low for multiples so we are going to want to watch that. Still getting sick?" Kelly wanted to know.

"Yeah." Elizabeth sighed. "I had one really great day and that was it."

"What did you do on that one really great day?" Kelly had been blessed with not one day of morning sickness, so she couldn't sympathize with her patient here.

"It was the day we found out about the twins." Jason spoke up.

"So what did you do differently that day that you didn't do before or since? That might be what helped you. Or it could have just been dumb luck." Kelly believed in her patients listening to their bodies. One mother swore that a grated ginger steeped in one cup of hot water every morning kept her from getting sick. It didn't hurt the baby so Kelly said go for it.

"Aside from the drama it was pretty typical." Elizabeth said thinking back.

"Actually." Jason said grinning. "I was home in the afternoon that day."

"You were." Elizabeth said blushing just a bit.

"Ah." Kelly said catching the drift. "I am a big believer in my patients maintaining active sex lives for as long as possible. I have patients who swear that sex cured their morning sickness." Kelly loved that Liz was blushing, and Jason was not. "I would suggest that you try it again and see what happens. If Jason sexing you up keeps you from getting sick, I would be happy to prescribe nooners." Kelly smiled wide.

"I'm willing to try if you are." Jason said laughing. "Alternative medicine is great."

"Jason." Elizabeth laughed and swatted her husband.

"I'll let you two discuss this later. So Mrs. Morgan I have to say you are a great friend, but as a patient you give me fits. Two pregnancies that just missed being high risk. Two miscarriages in your past, and now twins. Which put you officially on the high risk list. Because of your record I am going to draw a pretty hard line for you." Kelly would be talking with both Epiphany and Monica later. She was within her rights to do so because Liz worked at the hospital and there were things that placed her health, and her children's health, at risk.

"How hard?" Elizabeth asked chewing on her lower lip. She knew that Jason was going to make sure that she followed every rule to the letter.

"You are starting tomorrow part time." Kelly started with the big one.

"Part time?" Elizabeth hadn't expected that. "I'm the assistant head nurse I can't work part time, it's a full time position." She protested.

"Then you need to step down." Kelly could be a bitch when it was called for. "No more than four hours straight on your feet." Was the next thing the doctor announced.

Elizabeth just huffed.

Jason looked between his wife and her doctor. "Doesn't that take her off of Patrick's service?"

"It takes me off pretty much everyone but the general surgeon's service." Elizabeth shot daggers at her friend.

"Everything happens faster with twins. I'm sure Jason could give you one of his books." Being married to one of his guys Kelly had gotten to know the blonde man better. He was big on research. On knowing everything he could about any given situation. There was no way he hadn't been reading about twins. "Your ankles will swell if you are standing for too long, that pushes your blood pressure up. If that happens you will be put on bed rest. Ask Carly, it isn't fun." Kelly threatened.

"You will stop working completely at twenty-eight weeks. Twins often come early, so by thirty-two weeks we will start watching. With this being your third pregnancy you have a good shot of making it to thirty-six weeks which would be ideal." Kelly kept going. She knew Elizabeth wasn't liking what she was hearing, she also knew her friend would behave. There wasn't anything Elizabeth wouldn't do for her children.

"You need to be consuming roughly twenty six hundred calories a day. Exercise should be light, I would recommend water based activities since they will be easier on your body." Kelly told her friend. "Total weight gain should around forty five pounds for you since you are starting behind. Try to keep it healthy, but the occasional pig out won't hurt you. Based on what some of my other multiple mommies have said you might want to get some antacids. Heart burn is common with two or more babies."

"Stairs?" Jason wanted to know. That had been a restriction before.

"At the moment they are fine. We will revisit that if Elizabeth's blood pressure starts rising." Kelly answered. "Common sense will keep you out of trouble. If it seems risky then don't do it. If you have a question call me here or at home." Kelly said looking at Jason. "Keep stress to a minimum. So don't do anything stupid."

What he and AJ were planning on announcing at the board meeting briefly crossed his mind. Yes his lovely wife would be annoyed with him, but it shouldn't raise her blood pressure any. His mother's blood pressure would be another matter. She was going to be pissed at both of them. She would be proud as well.

Jason just nodded at Kelly.

"Anything else?" Elizabeth was already calming down. She should have seen this coming. Kelly was right, her history with pregnancies would give any doctor cause to put in place those restrictions. At least they could still have sex, so that was a positive. Elizabeth was looking forward to testing out the theory about intercourse stopping her sickness.

"Any odd cravings?" Kelly asked getting out the fetal monitors. "I love hearing about some of the things my mommies eat."

"I've been eating a lot of cashews lately." Elizabeth told her doctor.

"They are good for you. Watch the salt." Kelly cautioned.

"Dry roasted and unsalted." Jason added to the conversation.

"Good. My weirdest craving was root beer. I had it at every meal. I never want to see the stuff again." Kelly laughed at herself. "I don't think Cody does either. It was the object of a two a.m. grocery store run. Have any of those yet?" Kelly asked Jason.

"Not yet." He grinned, he was sure it was coming.

"So are we telling everyone about the twins?" Kelly wanted to know.

"Not until we have to." Elizabeth answered for them both.

"Emily will need to know for the shower." Kelly pointed out.

"No she doesn't. We can afford to get the second set of everything." Jason pointed out.

"By the time I'm seven months we aren't going to be able to hide the fact that I'm huge." Elizabeth told her husband. "We will most likely announce it around four months." But she got that he didn't want to be pushed to tell anyone.

"Okay, let's have a listen. We should hear three heartbeats unless one of the babies is in sync with either its twin or mom. If we only hear two we will take a peek." Normally at three months Kelly would do an ultrasound but Liz just had one last week.

She turned on the speakers and they heard three distinct heartbeats fill the room. Elizabeth turned her face into the space between Jason's neck and shoulder as the tears came. To be able to share this moment with him was such a gift.

Jason placed his hand on his wife's round belly and let the awe of the moment fill him. He had missed this with Jake so to be here now was a blessing. He could very well have still been sitting on that deserted island. Instead he was standing here listening to the heartbeats of his two youngest children. When Elizabeth looked up he gently kissed her before placing his forehead against hers.

"They sound good." Kelly was noting the number of beats. "One has a slightly faster heartbeat than the other."

"Is that bad?" Jason asked looking over.

"No, both babies are safely in the range we would want to see. If you are a believer in old wives tales then you might say you are having a mixed set." Kelly teased her friends. "Next month we will be able to peek in and if the babies are feeling cooperative maybe you'll get some genders." Kelly turned off the speakers and took off the monitors. "Okay today will be your last full time shift. So enjoy it."

"When do you want us back?" Elizabeth asked sitting up.

"Four weeks, since you work here." Kelly told her. "When you get to twenty-four weeks we will switch to every two weeks. That will change if I see anything that worries me before then." Kelly cautioned. "When you get to thirty weeks I'm going to want to see you weekly. I want you getting your blood pressure checked every two weeks. Anyone of your various relatives or friends can do it. Not you though."

"You don't trust her?" Jason asked smiling.

"She's the patient. Also I want you on a scale in two weeks. If you haven't gained at least two pounds call me. Have Jason look at the numbers." Kelly wrote down Liz's current weight. "If the sex does stop you from getting sick it will help with the weight gain. Let me know how that works out."

"For scientific reasons of course." Elizabeth said sarcastically.

"That and I'm nosey." Kelly answered without a bit of shame. "Get out, I have real patients to see."

"Wait, no pictures?" Elizabeth asked her friend. She hadn't seen Kelly all week. Normally they ran into one another at least in the halls.

Being a proud mommy she could not resist pulling out her phone.

"He looks just like Cody." Elizabeth said delighted.

"It's the bald head." Kelly laughed. "Brady's hair is slowly coming back in. He's got a nice layer of black peach fuzz going now. Its a few pictures later." Kelly said looking at her phone.

Elizabeth showed a picture to Jason. "Cody has them on his desk." His enforcer had a digital photo album, and at some point this week Jason was picking one up too. "He updates regularly."

"The man is a marshmallow where his son is concerned. It's sexy." Kelly said with a saucy smile. "Okay, get out." She repeated.

Jason helped Elizabeth down and she adjusted her scrubs. They stopped off to get an appointment card. "Where are you off to?"

"I have a board meeting in thirty minutes." Jason told her.

"Will you be able to tell me why you and your brother have been meeting every day this week?" Elizabeth had come right out and asked what was happening. Jason had told her it was hospital business and he wasn't at liberty to tell her before the board knew. So she had backed off. However something about the gleam in both men's eyes had her worried. All the ladies were worried. "Come find me when you are done."

"I will. We have a theory to test out." He said before kissing her again.

She stood in the hall and watched him walk away. Because the board was meeting Jason was in a suit today. It was a look she very much appreciated. Not that she didn't love him in jeans. The man had an ass that was made for denim. 'Sex everyday at four was not going to be a hardship'. Elizabeth thought to herself.

Instead of stopping at the hub she walked further down the hall to Epiphany's office. The head nurse was at her desk. "So how did the visit go?"

Elizabeth stepped inside and closed the door. "Kelly said today is my last day working full time."

"Not surprising. Twins make the pregnancy high risk." The older woman said calmly.

"She put that in the email?" Elizabeth didn't think Jason wanted Monica to know yet.

"No." Epiphany smiled at her friend. "I have been doing this a long time. Even for baby number three you are big. Those large scrub tops didn't fool me. Kelly hasn't contacted me yet." It would probably happen soon though.

"I'm sorry Piph. I feel like I'm letting you down." Elizabeth said sitting before Piph told her to.

"Why?" The older woman asked confused.

"I took the assistant head nurse position on the understanding that I would be here full time." Elizabeth explained what she was thinking.

"Just because you are part time here at the hospital doesn't mean you can't keep your position." Piph could make this work.

"I'm going out at twenty-eight weeks." Elizabeth told her boss. "I would feel better stepping down. I should tell you that I planned on taking off some time after the baby came to go back to school."

"To get your doctorate?" Epiphany hoped so.

"Yes." Elizabeth confirmed.

"Good." Piph said smiling. "Elizabeth you are young so even if you step down as my assistant head nurse, which I want to officially state you don't have to do, there is plenty of time for you to have my job. The doctorate puts you in a really good position to make that happen. Think about it and let me know. Talk with your hubby."

"Thank you Epiphany." Elizabeth felt better. The guilt was gone, well mostly gone. She would talk to Jason and get his opinion. The final choice would be hers. She placed her hand on her tummy. "I'm still wrapping my brain around the fact that I have two babies inside me." She said laughing. "We heard the heartbeats today."

"How did that feel?" Epiphany asked smiling too. Elizabeth had been through a lot of heart ache, she had earned this time of happiness.

"Wonderful." Elizabeth rubbed her tummy. "Jason loved it too."

"Did you have lunch?" Epiphany asked her nurse. She was thin for someone carrying twins.

"I did. Jason watched me eat it. He's picking me up at three-thirty." If she knew her husband he would make her have a snack, and then go home to have sex.

"After the board meeting." Epiphany figured.

"The meeting ends at two, but they generally stay and talk after so yeah." Elizabeth scooted to the edge of the chair and stood up. "I'm going to man the hub. Maybe later you can protect me when I tell Patrick I'm off his service."

"I'll bring a broom to beat him back." Piph said laughing. She'd make sure to check Elizabeth's ankles in about an hour.

"Bring two." Elizabeth suggested heading back out onto the floor.

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