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Two days later, and it’s tio home

With a baby

I brush euntil I get home I pull my dirty hair into a ponytail and call it a job well done

I enter the roo home outfit—a cute sleeper with unicorns on it, and then swaddling her in the leot her

I sit down on the bed as he picks her back up, rocking her in his arms

The nurse coe papers “You

can’t send me home with her,” I plead “I killed a hamster once You can’t send me home with a baby Tell her, Xander”

He chuckles, rocking the baby “We’ve got this,” he tells the nurse “Ignore her”

My jaw drops “You’re no help”

“You’re going to be fine,” the nurse assuresmy hand

She goes over the papers I need to sign and then she helps us put the baby in the car seat so that we knoe have her buckled in properly

She brings in a wheelchair to take me out, which I find completely unnecessary but she insists it’s protocol

That leaves Xander to carry the baby carrier and our stuff

Thankfully, I didn’t over pack … for once