Elizabeth was now 6 months pregnant, she was entering her third trimester of pregnancy and so far, she was feeling pretty good. She had not been plagued by morning sickness in months, her appetite was pretty much back to normal, though with a few cravings from time to time which Henry more than willingly complied in accommodating, as weird as they were. She was still horny, her hormones running wild but again, henry was more than happy to help his wife whenever her could, several times a day usually. Elizabeth enjoyed her husband, and was happy that he didn't mind her requests but she was getting larger and gaining weight and feeling self-conscious about her body. At first it didn't bother her, she could see the difference in her body because she realized it was for her baby but now she was starting to get quite a bit larger, nothing fit, she had a hard time moving around and she couldn't get comfortable to save her life. She often made remarks on her weight and her size but Henry refused to let her believe it. He thought his wife was absolutely gorgeous, the most beautiful woman he'd laid eyes on, and now she had that pregnancy glow and he was mesmerized by her beauty. He tried to remind her daily, especially when she made self-deprecating comments. He refused to let her believe she was anything but perfect, but it wasn't that easy.
Her hormones were not just affecting her sex drive, they were affecting her emotional state as well, that, henry had a harder time dealing with this. He could handle all the sex, he could handle her cravings, the stress, really anything at all, but when she got upset over anything and everything, he had a hard time getting her to return to reality.
Anything would set her off, a tv commercial, anything cute, any babies, anything sad, anything Henry said, work, really, anything at all, and Henry didn't know how to handle it. Usually his wife was pretty closed off, and it took her a while to open up and be emotionally open with anyone, including Henry. Now, she was so emotional, that she got emotional about being emotional and she didn't know how to make it stop. She would get angry over minimal things that her husband did, even if he did it out of love but other time, if he did something sweet, she would cry because he's was being so understanding, if he said one wrong thing though, she would lose it.
She had gotten home from a long day the office, she knew Henry would be home when she got there and she couldn't wait to fall in his arms and forget the day. As she was getting closer to becoming a mother, she found it increasingly difficult to deal with the tragedies of work without getting too invested and today was one of those days and she just needed her husband's support.
"Hey beautiful" he said with a smile and a wink.
She dropped her purse, her briefcase, her coat and kicked off her shoes, never losing eye contact with Henry, he knew something was wrong but he didn't know if it was something he did or said, or if it was work, these days he never knew.
She was about to lose it and couldn't get anything out.
"Baby..." he said, with so much love, "what's wrong?".
"I don't know" she cried.
"You don't know?" he replied, he trying to be sympathetic but he still couldn't understand what she was going through.
"I don't know, it was just a long day, I just need you ok?", almost begging for her husband.
Henry had started dinner, he tried to plan a romantic evening for Elizabeth, she deserved it after all but by the looks of it, she might not be in the mood.
"Come here babe", he dropped what he was doing and opened his arms to his wife, it didn't take much convincing to get her in his arms.
She laid her head on his shoulder, her face tucked under his neck. He had one of his arms wrapped around her back and the other running through her flowing blond hair and just let her for a few minutes.
As she was leaning into his embrace, her protruding belly was against Henry's abdomen so he could feel the kicks coming from Elizabeth's belly. Their little baby was quite energetic and rarely calmed down these days. Henry couldn't help but smile at the feeling of his baby's movement. As much as seeing his wife upset, upset him, his baby girl could change that.
After composing herself and being able to have dinner with her husband, they'd decided to continue a previous conversation that had started on baby names. They still had a few months to decide before the baby arrived but they were still nowhere near settling on a name.
Henry mentioned a few girl names, still sure he was going to have a daughter, Elizabeth was unsure if Henry 's prediction and was a bit more pragmatic, she was looking up boy and girl names just in case.
Caroline, Emily, Melanie, Stephanie, Christine where all being thrown out. Nicolas, Matthew, Samuel and Jason were being suggested as well but nothing was grabbing at them. The pressure of finding the perfect name was tough. They eventually decided that they would make a list of favourites and when the baby arrived, they would decide because over the past several weeks, they were getting nowhere on deciding names.