Lauren was flicking through her wedding photos sitting on the bed; she looked absolutely stunning then which was exactly five months ago from that day. Ian walked in from the bathroom drying his hands on the bath towel before throwing into the wash bin which was overflowing.
"Louise has really been slacking recently" Ian muttered to himself as he moved towards Lauren opening his legs to allow Lauren to move in between them and fall into his chest. Lauren lifted up her top asking Ian for help to pull it off over her head. She couldn't wear bras at the moment; they were so painful. Ian started to massage the heavy bump that was carrying their wonderful baby. Lauren continued flicking through the photos until she giggled.
"What?" Ian asked as he looked over her shoulder to find a photo he had placed in there himself; a picture of their honeymoon, Lauren lying on a bed full of roses pointing a rifle at him and the camera. He started to move his hands towards her tender breasts kissing her neck starkly; he was desperate for her, he didn't even realise how harsh he was being with his hands.
"Ow!" Lauren exclaimed. Ian quickly released his hands. Lauren grasped her bump and threw herself forward.
"What's wrong?!" Ian shouted with concern as she moved away from back and laid her down on the bed. Lauren started to moan loudly with pain and threw her legs into the air onto Ian's shoulders.
"Just breathe love, what's wrong?" Ian hushed her as she started to scream in pain. Lauren clenched onto the silk bed sheets. The couple had been told about pre-contractions but the nurse said it wouldn't be painful as she was feeling right now. Ian felt Lauren's forehead; she was boiling.
"I'm going to get you a drink okay. You're just ill. I'll get the doctor to come round tomorrow" Ian said quietly as he walked towards the bathroom to find the bottled water they kept in there. Lauren sighed before another sharp shooting pain hit the bump and a gush of blood came pouring out of her.
"Ian!" Lauren shouted panicked. "Ian! Ian! What's happening?!" Lauren screamed again with tears in her eyes. She pushed forward again in excruciating pain opening her legs as more blood emptied onto the bed sheets. Ian came running through from the bathroom dropping the water instantly as he saw her and the blood.
Tears ran down Lauren's cheek as she rubbed her baby bump trying to calm the distressed baby down. Ian stood at the edge of the bed looking at his beautiful wife distraught; he felt like he was paralysed. Lauren screamed at him begging for help. He ran, almost stumbling towards the bed. He looked at her anxious eyes filled with glistening tears and mascara running down her solid cheekbones before opening her legs wider to see something he did not want to see this early on in their pregnancy. The baby's head.
"Lauren, I need you stay still" Ian said his voice trembling as he grabbed the phone on the bedside table. She started to sob louder. She knew something wasn't right when Ian was concerned. He was a warrior; if he was anxious something was really wrong.
"Ian, help me, what's wrong, tell me!" Lauren shouted through the tears as she yelled again in agony as more watery blood pushed onto the duvet. Ian was already on the phone to the hospital telling them they need their best man down to their villa otherwise shit would go down and he wasn't a man to mess with. He hung up telling Lauren to breathe as he massaged her thighs in order for the cramp in her feet to stop.
"Lauren, you need to push, I need you to push for me" Ian informed her staring at her stunning eyes.
"Why? Our baby isn't ready to come out yet!" Lauren hissed back at him obviously panicked.
"You want to save our beautiful baby love?" Ian asked as caring as he could be in a situation like this one.
"Well of course I do!" Lauren retaliated with anger and pain as she screamed again clasping her stomach.
"Then you need to push for me" Ian replied taking her hand waiting for the squeezing to start as Lauren pushed her legs wider and clenched her whole body trying her best to save the growing life form inside of her that Ian and her loved more than anything.
"Aghhhhhhhhh!" Lauren wailed as she pushed again; the baby inside of her hadn't developed a lot and it was still pretty small. Ian could see the head of his beautiful baby daughter but something was wrong.
"PUSH LAUREN, FUCKING PUSH. THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG!" Ian shrieked at his wife so confused and agitated. Lauren was in so much pain but that didn't matter, Ian had lost his cool so this meant something was seriously wrong. Lauren pushed again straining her whole body until a squelching noise was made.
"Ian, what was that?" Lauren questioned panting hoping she wouldn't have to push anymore. She was so tired and her arms were exhausted from propping herself up. There was no crying, but there was a baby in Ian's blood soaked shirt.
The umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby's neck. She wasn't breathing. Ian quickly took a pair scissors and tried to cut off the cord from Lauren and the little girl's neck.
"Fuck Ian, tell me what's wrong!" Lauren bawled at her husband as he started to perform CPR on the little blood sodden girl. Lauren started to hyperventilate; was her baby dead. She had been trying for years to have a baby and when it happened it was going to end before it really began. Suddenly Louise and a doctor came bursting into the room and as they did so the doctor pushed Ian aside almost throwing him onto the floor grabbing equipment out of a black bag. Ian ran over to his wife taking her hand and whispering into her ear to breathe and that their little girl was in safe hands now.
"Will she be okay?" Lauren whimpered wiping her eyes trying to catch her breath as the couple watched the doctor perform a delicate operation of trying to save their daughters life.