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The nurse looks at ret that decision, but shrugs and heads out of the room

“Do you want anything?” Nova asks me

“Can I have some ice?”

“Sure thing I’ll be right back”

She heads out into the hall to get it, and of course as soon as she leaves I get a contraction

I breathe through it like she told

I lay my head back and close my eyes

I co to seemonths

The door opens and Nova comes in with a plastic cup full of crushed ice She pulls the chair up besideme the cup

I hold the cup and grab a couple of pieces, popping them into my mouth

Crunching on the ice helps, because it coolsto do to distract from the pain

Nova rubsto comfort me, but her eyes are far away

“Thank you for staying with me I know this can’t be easy”

She s here like this”

“Did you have someone with you when you had Greyson?” I ask I’ve never talked to her all that ave up for adoption, I know she has a good relationship with him and his adoptive parents, but that’s only recently Before then, he was a stranger to her I can’t i my baby taken from me