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Shaking my head, I smiled at our familiar disagreement. “We’re not having a girl. I’m telling you, it’s going to be a boy.”
We’d chosen to let it be a surprise, and now each of us was convinced we were right in knowing the gender.
Her face lit up. “You wanna bet?”
Music to my ears. “But, of course. Now then, if you lose, which you most surely will, I’m naming our son Leonidas.”
She rolled her eyes. “You’re such a dude. We are not naming him after the movie 300.”
“That movie was based on the King of Sparta. Besides, we could call him Leo for short.”
She looked to be contemplating and then smirked. “When I win, after we have our daughter, you will—oh, damn—”
She gripped my hand with a strength that had me wincing.
“That one was really close to the last one.”
“Yeah, I feel like they’re getting stronger, too.” She no sooner uttered the words than the doctor came back in.
With a smile, the doctor looked under the sheet.
“Remember you’re to keep your eyes up here on my face, mister,” Kenzie threatened with humor in her eyes.
She had read some book that said if a man watched the baby coming out, it could freak him out enough to affect their sex life.
“No worries about that.” If I was being honest, I didn’t want to take the chance of passing the hell out at the sight of blood and whatever else, so I was good with concentrating on her face.
“So, where was I? When you lose this bet, and it’s a girl, you’re going to—”
Another contraction seized her and was starting to freak me the fuck out a little. I mean, I’m a guy. The thought of a human coming out of one of my favorite places on my wife was hard enough to grasp, but watching the love of my life in severe pain was rougher than I’d anticipated.
“Okay, Kenzie, ready to start pushing?” her doctor asked.
“Wait—” I interrupted, just remembering something.
Both she and the doctor froze, along with the two nurses. They all looked at me expectantly as I fumbled for my phone.
“If you take a picture that’s not of the baby, you’re a dead man,” Kenzie threatened.
I smiled, aware she wasn’t kidding while thumbing through until I found the link I was looking for. “No pictures, but I forgot; I’m supposed to give you something called a push gift. Josh didn’t offer up many details, but I’m assuming I give it to you while you’re pushing?”
All the women in the room burst out laughing before an amused Kenzie pulled me down to her. “You’re adorable.”
“What did I miss?”
She and the doctor traded glances. “A push gift is a present a man gets the mother of his child for giving birth, or so I’ve heard, but it doesn’t literally have to be given while pushing.”
“In that case, they should’ve called something less specific.” I went to put my phone away, but she shook her head.
“Hey, now you have to show me.”
I chuckled at her impatience before displaying a picture of the house I’d purchased in Cabo. “See, we’ll always have our tropical vacations only a short flight away.”
“That was so unbelievably thoughtful.” She cringed with another contraction. “I think that’s my cue to start.”
Fifteen minutes later, through a series of pushing and breathing, the effort yielded the most beautiful baby girl in the whole wide world. And this time, neither Kenz nor I bothered to hide the tears of joy streaming down our faces with this miracle.
“How did you know it would be a girl?” I whispered, watching as the nurses got her cleaned up.
