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The nurse popped out of the room then with a clipboard in her hands. She took my height, weight, blood pressure, and had taken three big tubes of blood. When all of that shit was done, she instructed me to enter the room, strip waist down, and lie back on the makeshift bed. She pulled a blanket up to cover my pelvic region and then moved away to pull an ultrasound machine closer to me.
“Are you excited?” she asked, her warm smile still in place as she grabbed some weird looking wand thing and proceeded to squirt what looked like petroleum jelly on top of it.
I grunted in response.
“Okay then,” she said after a moment, moving down near the end of the bed. “I need you to scoot down until your butt is almost hanging off the end. Once the wand is inserted, it’ll allow me to see your uterus. I’ll take measurements of the baby and if you’d like to, you can hear the heartbeat.”
“Okay.” I did as she asked, sighing. “Done.”
The nurse nodded and carefully lifted the blanket, demanding I spread my legs wide for her. I blew out a hard breath when the wand was in and looked away from the screen before she could face it towards me, tears dotting over my eyes.
“There you are, little one,” she whispered, her grin heard in her tone. She made a few little clicks on the computer and began typing. A few moments had passed before she said, “You’re ranging right at ten weeks gestation.”
The nurse paused and grabbed her clipboard, jotting down something I couldn’t see while I did the math in my head.
Ten weeks… That was what, a little over two months, maybe three? It was November now, which meant I’d gotten pregnant sometime in either late August or early September. My heart sank lower as I struggled to filter through the times Finn and I were together, and then Damien.
Fuck…
It could honestly go either way.
“Would you like to hear the heartbeat?”
She didn’t give me time to give her a full response before loud, rhythmic thuds met my ears, pounding strongly. The tears I desperately battled came flooding down my face like a dam had broken loose.
I finally turned my head to look at the screen, seeing an itty-bitty fetus freely wiggling around in my womb. Nothing but absolute love and adoration coursed through me the longer I stared, my lips parted.
That’s my baby…
My baby.
FUCKING MINE!
“How,” I started, swallowing hard as I glanced up to the nurse. “How long until I can know the gender?”
“The gender can be determined at around fourteen weeks. If you don’t want to wait that long, then we can always do a blood test.”
“And how long would it take for the results to come back?”
“No later than a week. I’ve taken more than enough blood from you, so I can take a sample and send it off today if you—”
“Do it,” I softly demanded. “I-I mean… If it’s not too much trouble…”
“Not at all. And oh, based on the measurements, you’re due near the end of May, the first week in June at the latest. Are you taking any prenatal vitamins?”
I shook my head. “Sorry, no. I literally just found out I was pregnant.”
The nurse gave me another wide grin. “No problem. I’ll have the doctor prescribe you some. I have two little ones of my own and from my own personal experience, make sure you take them after you’ve eaten something. Not all pregnancies are the same, of course, but it is possible you could get sick if you take them on an empty stomach.”
“Yeah, okay… Thank you.”
“It’s been a pleasure, Ginger, and it was nice to meet you.” She reached down near the ultrasound machine and ripped off a small parchment, handing it over to me.
My bottom lip wobbled as I stared down at the pictures of my baby.
“Give me just a moment and I’ll be back with that script and your next appointment date.”
When she walked out and after I’d finished getting dressed, Smoke stepped into the room, a happy smile on his face.
