Jade was in serious pain, her waters had broken and she was quickly entering labour. By the time she was in the ambulance with Luke and the paramedics she was being told to keep calm and remember the breathing techniques, but the pain was making all of that go out of the window.
Taylor had pulled round the car to the front entrance and both Ana and Christian wordlessly slipped into the seats, Taylor driving behind the ambulance at breakneck speeds.
When Jade was whisked away to the delivery suite the midwife looked a little worried 'you're nearly fully dilated, you've lost a little blood but the drip should make up for that, if you feel the need to push, tell me okay?'.
Frankly Jade hadn't been listening at all, the baby's development so far back meant that Jade was suffering some of the worst contractions and back pain possible.
Luke was visibly relieved when Grace came in the room, quickly checking over the charts and wincing slightly every time Jade made a pained noise. She'd heard plenty of women in labour but this was her only grandchild, it wasn't an easy thing to listen to.
Grace was grateful Luke was there in the room, pretending the keep calm as the labour began to rapidly quicken. He was clearly terrified judging by just how pale he was and the absolute fear in his eyes as his wife shouted in pain and squeezed his hand as hard as she could.
Luke was glad the delivery was so quick, not only was his wife clawing and squeezing at his hand with every contraction and push, she was screaming the place down.
Grace had tried to keep her granddaughter calm but it wasn't much use, the labour progressed so quickly that there was no time for nice calm breathing techniques, visualisations or frankly an epidural. She hated seeing Jade in so much pain but was somewhat comforted by watching how Luke was with her. He was standing beside her, holding her hand and rubbing an ice cube over her head when necessary. Whilst Luke looked terrified of the situation, he didn't falter and kept his calm for his wife.
Jade was breathing heavily through a contraction and looked over at Grace, who was flicking through some notes 'Gran? Is-is- is Dad here?' she nodded 'he's waiting outside with the rest of the family'. Jade didn't say anything more on the subject as another painful contraction washed over her
The midwife glanced up 'do you know the sex of the baby?' they shook their heads and she smiled 'one more push and you'll be able to find out'.
That was all the motivation Jade needed and after one more painful push she felt her body relax and the couple heard the incredible sound of a tiny, crying child.
Luke gasped slightly and Jade tried to sit up shakily 'is- is everything okay?'. The midwife smiled, placing the tiny crying body on Jade's chest, having rubbed the blood off. 'It's a girl, congratulations'.