Clarissa cried for a whole hour nonstop, until I finished puking.
"Here Clarissa" I walked in her bedroom, finding a very disturbed and confused Chris trying to calm down our daughter, "I'm here now, mommy's here." I tried my best to smile.
"Mommy" She continued crying and crawled up to me.
"Shhhh" I picked her up and started rocking her in my arms, her cries started decreasing.
"How do you…How do you do that?" Chris stared at me, amazed.
"It's the natural tendency of moms." I smiled at him, fondling her hair.
After a few minutes, she stopped crying completely and was awake in my arms, her big eyes red and swollen.
"Imagine two of those crying at the same time." Chris told me, one hand resting on my belly and the other on my shoulder.
"Its going to be chaos" I sighed, "I don't know if I can handle it."
"You can, you are a great mother." I hoped Clarissa thought so too.
"I'm just twenty years old and I'm about to have my second baby." I shook my head worriedly.
"I'm not much older, Claire. I'm only twenty one." He hugged me from behind. "I can't wait for your bump to start showing."
"I can…" I sighed looking down at Clarissa.
"How far along do you think i am?" I asked him.
"Well, since we moved in together, we have a lot of sex so… Its hard to know, we should talk to Alysa and see if she can help." He said.
"We keep making babies, I think I'm going to reach out to abstinence." I laughed, accommodating Clarissa in my arms.
"I beg you, please don't." He laughed and kissed my cheek.
"But seriously your sperm is so fertile." I turned around to face him.
"Thats why it's so thick, i think." He said, I shrugged.
I sat down, with Clarissa almost sleeping. "I'm so much more anxious this time. I want to see this baby."
I smiled and stroked my belly, Chris smiled at me.
I hummed a very soft melody until Clarissa was completely asleep and I set her in her crib, snuggling her with warm, cozy covers.
I yawned, "What time is it?"
"Four in the morning."
"Already?" I was shocked.
"Yeah…" He took me by the hand and we both lied in bed.
I crawled closer to him and lied on top of him, resting my head on his chest.
"I'm cold" I told him, hugging his body.
He ran his warm hands under my pajama and breathed warmly on my neck.
THE NEXT DAY
IN THE INFIRMARY
"So you're pregnant again." Alysa smiled at me.
"Yeah, but, i can't conceive by natural birth again, Alysa, I can't." I shook my head in denial.
"But this baby has to come out sometime, Clarisse." She laughed and stroked my back.
"I was wondering if you could perform a C-section." I smiled shyly.
"A surgery?" She seemed a little shocked, "Well, I suppose i could talk to my siblings and try to arrange it, but I've never done it before."
I gulped, "Okay thanks."
"Now, undress please, so I can check your respiration and performs a few exams. We received some new equipment since Clarissa's birth, including an ultrasound."
"Oh, an ultrasound?" I asked her excitedly, an ultrasound would make my life a whole lot easier.
"Drink these" She handed me three cups of water.
I drank all the water Alysa gave me, she told me i had to have my bladder full because a full bladder can change the position of the uterus by taking the flexion out of it and pushing it up so it is easier to scan.
She examined my chest and back with a stethoscope, she even took a sample of my blood. She then, opened a big closet ad took out of it a huge machine that she claimed was the ultrasound.
She plugged it in and told me to relax and to look at the monitor.
"I will apply a special gel to your stomach and I will glide a transducer on top of it. The sound waves reflected off of your bones and other tissues will be converted into gray images on the monitor." She told me as she applied the gel and then the transducer.
"Okay." I tried to take a deep breath and relax.
She did as she told me she would do.
"Look at that" She told me as an image appeared on the monitor. It was hard for me to decipher what that image was. "I think you're already on the beginning of your second trimester. I'd say your about fifteen weeks pregnant."
"Four months?! What?!" I couldn't believe it. "But…Where's my bump? I didn't even realize I was pregnant, its impossible!" I felt stupid, how could I not know I was pregnant, if I had been for four months.
"Well, every pregnancy is different. Your bump for Clarissa's pregnancy was huge, you could tell you were pregnant. But I don't think you are going to gain a lot of weight in this pregnancy. I know it seems crazy, but look at how developed that baby is, you have been pregnant for a while now, I'm surprised you didn't know."
"I have been so busy with Clarissa, I haven't had time to pay attention to myself…but wow…four months already…what the fuck…" I really was surprised.
"Look at that baby" She pointed to the monitor, "Its little body and all her features already forming, do you see it?"
"Yeah, i see it." I almost cried as I saw my child for the first time.
She pointed to a line at the bottom of the monitor, that showed and produced little pumps. "Thats your baby's heartbeat."
"Oh my gods." I tried to hold my tears in as I heard its little heart beating.
"Your baby is very healthy from what I've seen until now."
"Do you want to know the gender?" She asked me.
"You can do that?!" Wow, I really was very behind in this technology thing.
"Of course." She told me, gliding the transducer to the other end of my belly.
"Yeah, I want to know."
I held my breath nervously, was I going to give birth to a baby boy or a baby girl? And in less than six months.
"Hum, its leg is in the way" She tried motioning the transducer. "Come on, baby, move that little leg." She laughed.
After a few minutes, trying to get the baby to move, it did. My heart started beating faster again. I wanted Chris to be there, but he was training with his brothers and Connor and Travis were with Clarissa, i hesitated a bit in leaving her to their cares but she really likes them.
"Okay, Clarisse" She smiled excitedly at me, "Ready?"
"Yes! Say it!" I tried relaxing and listening to my baby's heartbeat.
"You are having" She made a pause, "another girl!"
I sighed in relief, its what i wanted. I mean, I didn't really want a gender, but I'm used to taking care of a girl now. I couldn't wait to tell Bella and Chris.
"Oh gods, really?" I asked.
"Yes!"
"Oh my gods, thank you." I thanked her.
"Not for this. Anyways, you can go relieve yourself, I'm going to clean things up and then we can talk about your pregnancy." She told me and I nodded.
After I peed, i helped Alysa get the ultrasound machine into the closet and we sat down to talk about my pregnancy.
"So, as you may know" She touched her neck, "I'm leaving for medical school next year, and you are being a great chance for me to practice. I've been studying quite a lot, so I have things that might be useful for you, that I didn't know yet, when you were pregnant with Clarissa." She smiled at me.
"Like what?" I wanted to know everything I could do to help my baby.
"Simple things. First of all, you need to carefully watch what you eat, whatever you eat, your little girl eats. You need to eat every time you feel hungry, avoid skipping meals, because you need to provide all the nutrients your baby needs. Focus on relaxing and enjoying your pregnancy, stressed mother have more difficulty in producing milk breast. Talking about milk, you need to drink a lot of it. Fish containing lots of Omega-3 fatty acids boosts brain power and is recommended during pregnancy. Make sure you get folic acid, found in spinach, eggs, legumes and liver, its good for your baby's developing spine and keeps its neural tubes healthy. Exercise is crucial, but no, not the exercise you are used to do, Yoga and low-intensity runs will do just fine. For back aches, try to maintain a good posture and sit in chairs that have back support. I think thats pretty much it, if you need to ask anything, I'll be more than happy to answer you." She spit all of that out, like she had been practicing it.
"Okay, eat healthy, relax, exercise, okay I can do that." I stood up and headed out, "Thank you, Alysa."
"Your welcome, and I need to see you soon, just to make sure that everything is okay." She smiled warmly.
I was happy i was going to have another girl, a sister for Clarissa. I wondered how she would react with a new baby coming. After all, Clarissa was still small and required lots of attention.
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