Papa don't preach

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The Parenting Meme

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01. You’ve just gotten the news, you’re pregnant. Time to tell your spouse. OR You’ve just gotten the news, you’re approved for adoption! Time to tell your spouse.
02. Oh my God, you’re in labor! OR Oh my God, time to meet your adoption prospect.
03. It’s the first night home with your new baby. Good luck.
04. Now you know why they call it the terrible twos. How are you and your spouse coping?
05. It’s your little one’s first day of school. You and your spouse are seeing them off.
06. Sitting in the stands for your kid’s big sports game. You two cheer as loud as you can!
07. The only thing worse than a two-year-old is a teenager. Time to discuss what's an appropriate punishment.
08. Hopefully you’ve got fresh batteries in your camera for prom pictures. Maybe your spouse remembered.
09. Your kid is off to college. You can’t believe the number of boxes you’ve got to fit in your car and carry to their dorm.
10. You’re older, wiser and probably going to cry at your kid's wedding. At least you two still have each other.

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[ktfe]

"Yeah," she whispered, though what it was in response to was vague. She took the baby girl, looked down at the tiny, scrunched-up face, and the strained expression Kay had been wearing relaxed and passed into a kind of satisfaction. She slumped, resting back against the bed, leaning into Aaron's shoulder and looking down at the baby. "Yeah, here she is."

[aaron_agate]

Putting an arm daintily around the exhausted woman, Aaron brought her in close. "We did good," he murmured happily.

[ktfe]

A less shaken and exhausted Kay would perhaps have responded snarkily, but in her current state she sighed a kind of exhausted agreement. Her part wasn't entirely over, but there was a respite and Kay was thankful.

The infant's squalling had quieted, the newborn having apparently exhausted her new lungs already already, though now that she had quieted to mere stirring Kay brought her up to the breast, offering the baby her first meal. Too, she looked over at Astren and Joey, who had respectfully been giving the pair of new parents some privacy. "She's healthy? Alright?"

Astren nodded. "Everything checked out. Everything that I could check for." Which was a considerable amount. "Still, bring her in to a pediatrician as soon as you can. It doesn't hurt to be thorough."

Kay nodded, another general fear alleviated, and looked back to the baby, who was just beginning to figure out what she was supposed to do.

[aaron_agate]

"So are we going to have to get her registered, or what?" Aaron wanted to know from the two advising elementals. He was watching the girl fondly, watching Kay bonding with the girl, and feeling a warm glow of satisfaction. Everything seemed more still and quiet... though that could be that he was still half deaf in one ear from Kay's earlier yowling.

[ktfe]

It was easy to get more still and quiet than how Kay had been a few minutes ago, especially now that she was keeping still for the baby's sake. She'd latched on, in any case, and Kay's bearing was a funny mix of fierce and contented. "Yeah, probably," she replied, vague on the details and at the moment not caring, entirely high on the massive hormone dump her system had indulged in. She swung her gaze reluctantly from the baby up to Aaron again and asked quietly, "so what do you think?"

They'd had a number of names they'd kicked around, but had never come to a consensus. Kay hadn't wanted to pick a name till they'd met the child, as such, so they hadn't even settled on 'if it's a boy, then this, if a girl, then this' -- there'd been two or three options for each. Now, though, it was time to settle.

[aaron_agate]

Aaron didn't even need to think hard about it. "Cassandra," he told the redhead, running a careful hand over her peach-fuzz hair. Out of all of their tossed about names, it was the only one he could see fitting.

[ktfe]

"Cassandra. Cassie," Kay tried it out, looking at the little girl, and grinned. "Yeah. That's right, then. Cassie." She held the little girl a little more closely, and pressed in close against Aaron. She was exhausted and basically everything hurt, but just then, the woman was as happy as she'd ever been.

[aaron_agate]

Considering that there weren't many days when she and Aaron were able to rest together like this, and with the new little girl finally in front of them, the blonde was more than happy to allow the moment to stretch on as long as the two girls were comfortable. At least for now, the lot of them were content, which he'd treasure all the more once he realized how rare a treat this sort of gathering really was.