After about an hour and a half of searching I found it. I click on the website and read everything over at least 3 times. Every time I read it I got even more excited. I saved the website in my favorites category, I unplugged my laptop and leave the office. I start calling out for my wife. "Babe, you still in the living room?" I don't hear anything so I proceed to the living room. "Gina, babe, are you I here?" I look around and I can't see anything. I walk in further and see her asleep on the couch. I smile. She's kinda on her side with one hand on the baby belly and the other one by her side. I walk over and put my laptop on the coffee table. I kneel down on the floor and I lean in to gently kiss her forehead. I hear her let out a sigh which makes me smile again. I get up, take my laptop and sit across from her. I shut the computer off and put it back on the coffee table then I sit back and enjoy my pregnant wife taking a nap. She looks so peaceful and content. I smile and soon enough I fall asleep sitting in the chair looking at my wife. Some time goes by and I feel a soft shake to my shoulder and a kiss to my lips. I slowly wake up and look to see Regina sitting on the arm of the chair I was in. "Sorry to wake you my love but it's past dinner time and little EJ isn't happy". She says with a smile. "EJ? Babe who is EJ?" She laughs a little and says. "Well dear, before we found out what we were having, I was secretly calling our baby EJ as in Emma Junior. I didn't want to refer to our child as a small type, or any type of food for that matter". She has a big smile on her face after she said that. "I actually like the EJ babe, maybe we should change the name of our kid when he's born". "No Emma. We are going with the decision we already made weeks ago when we talked about boy baby names. You really wanted this name and I absolutely love it, so that's what we are going with". "Alright babe your lucky I like this name". We both smile at each other and then we talked about what we wanted for dinner. We decided to go to the store to get a few things to grill outside. We got some marinated chicken breasts and some veggies, as well as some potatoes to make Regina's locally famous potato salad. I love it. She doesn't buy any crappy vegetables that I don't like. Regina also got some stuff to make her sweet homemade iced tea with lemon. We washed and cut all the vegetables, put a few seasonings on it like salt, pepper, some garlic powder, onion and celery powder and a little extra virgin olive oil. We mixed everything up and put it in a small thin metal pan so I could put it on the grill. Regina trimmed the teriyaki marinaded chicken out it in a new plastic bag of a teriyaki glaze. It's a little thicker than the marinade but it so delicious when the chicken is cooked. There was some glaze left in the jar so Regina said she was going to put it in a small pot and heat it up so we could put it on our chicken when we eat it if we wanted to. "Ok my love I think that everything is ready now. Perhaps you should light the grill now". I smile and walk over to give her a kiss. "I'll do it now babe. It won't take to long to heat up. I'll be back in a few minutes". I kiss her again then I go outside. I pull our grill out away from the house, I take the protective weather cover off from over the grill and put it off to the side. I lift the top and begin to start the grill. It starts right up, I adjust the flame levels and close the top. I doesn't take to long to heat up so I go back into the house to see what Regina is doing and she's sitting on the couch rubbing her belly and slowly doing some breathing exercises that we just started to learn in our Lamaze classes. I quickly go to her side. "Babe are you ok, is there something wrong?" She continues her breathing and shakes her head no. "Ok babe just keep trying to relax and doing your breathing alright?" She breathes out and nods at me. I put my hand on her stomach and we both rubbed it. Soon enough she started to relax a bit. "Babe are you feeling better?" She takes a few more breaths and says. "Yes my love I feel so much better". "That's great babe. Should we call your doctor?" "No dear it's ok I already did while you were outside lighting the grill. She said it was just braxton hicks contractions, which are basically false labor contractions". "False labor? What the fuck Regina? That's ridiculous. A pregnant woman can have false labor pains and contractions? Holy fuck. Talk about scaring the shit out of first time parents. That's just not even right. That must scare all first time parents. So your sure ok now?" "Yes dear thank you. I should call Dr. Crane though. I want to give her an update on how I'm doing". "I definitely agree babe". I lean over and take hold of the our house phone. I dial the doctors office number and when someone picks up I tell her who I am and who my wife is and she says she's been waiting for a call from us. She asks me to hold so she can connect us with the doctor. About 2 minutes later Dr. Crane comes on the line and asks how everything was going. I told the doctor I was putting her on speaker phone so Regina and I could both hear what she has to say. "So Regina how are you feeling now?" "Well Dr. Crane, the pains have stopped. I did my breathing exercises and when Emma saw how much discomfort I was in she helped me and it was easy to relax". "That's wonderful. Are you feeling anything else such as aches and pains anywhere?" "No Doctor, the only thing I feel is a little hungry and tired". Regina laughs a bit. "I feel mostly tired though". Regina and listen to everything Dr. Crane has to say. "It's ok Regina being tired and even hungry is normal. My recommendation right now is to just take a slow walk around your neighborhood, or if your backyard is big enough just do a few laps around that just to stretch your legs. Don't make it a power walk, but a nice stroll around the area. Ok". Regina and I both say. "Yes Dr. Crane". "Ok ladies please call me later and let me know how the rest of the day goes as well along with how you feel Regina". "Ok Dr. Crane I will make sure Regina and I call you later this evening. Is that alright?" "Of course Emma. I know you'll take very good care of her and the baby". "There is never a need to worry about that Doc". "I believe that Emma. I look forward to hearing from both of you". We all say goodbye and end the call. "Ok babe do you feel ok enough to walk around the backyard?" "Oh my love. Just give me a few moments. You go out and shut off the grill and the gas tank so we don't waste anything and then we will slowly walk around our backyard. Does that sound alright with you?" I kiss her lips. "Regina anything you want sounds perfect to me". I kiss her again and go outside and turn off the grill for now. When I come back in to were Regina is sitting and sit next to her. "How are you feeling babe?" "I feel good my love. I'm in no discomfort at all". "Perhaps we should try to walk around a little". "Oh Emma I really don't want to do that". "I know babe and I'm sorry but Dr. Crane thinks it's a good idea. Come on now let me help you up". "Fine let's get this over with". I take her by one hand and wrap my arm around her waist with the other and I slowly help her to her feet. "Any discomfort babe?" "No dear. I'm fine thank you. How long do I have to do this Emma?" We get outside and walk out on the lawn. I walk us out by our white fence and I say. "How about we do 1 and a half laps around the yard?" "Half, how do we do that?" "Well we start a second lap but we only walk till we are even with the apple tree and then we walk up to the house instead of going all the way around". "Ok dear that doesn't sound so bad. I guess I can make it through this". As we walk hand in hand I kiss her on her cheek. "So babe we can talk all about this later but I found the perfect place to go camping for a few days". "Oh Emma I don't know. Especially after earlier. We should probably stay local". "Regina it's ok. It's only about 30 minutes away from here and there is a hospital only 2 miles away plus this place has an onsite certified medical staff and even a doctor that went to Harvard on staff. This place is beautiful with every kind of camping you can think of. To start off they have simple tent camping and also a beautiful bungalow for camping and eventually to something they call glampling. It's like glamour camping. You get all the sweet things like air conditioning or heat, lights in the room. The place is really beautiful Regina. I can show you the website when we go back inside". "I admit it does sound nice but I don't know yet". "Well don't dismiss yet. Just have a look at the pictures on the website and we'll call Dr. Crane and get her opinion". "Ok dear I'll at least consider it and look at everything first". "Thanks babe. So we are at the halfway point point now. Do you want stop and go in now?" "I could probably finish up but but I'd rather go in and sit for a few minutes and have some water". "Ok sweetheart let's go in". "We slowly walk back to the house and go inside. We sit down and I ask. "Can I get you that water now?" "Yes please dear and a cup of ice with that would be wonderful as well. Thank you". I kiss her lips and head off to the kitchen. I come back with a cup full of ice water for her. I even put a straw in it. She drinks most of it and puts her head back. "How are you feeling baby?" "I'm feeling good Emma but I would love to take a refreshing shower and I was hoping my wife would wash my back and maybe give me a nice massage too". I lean in and kiss her lips and say. "Regina baby if that's what you want, then that's what you shall get. You want to go upstairs now sweetheart?" She smiles and nods, then drinks more of her water. She hands me the glass and I help her stand up and we walk upstairs. We gather some clothes and go into the bathroom. We get out a few towels then start to undress. Regina starts the water and once it's at the right temperature I help her in then I get in. We both take turns under the water then Regina gets the loofah, puts our apple vanilla body soap on it and she starts to work up a good lather. Once she's done with that she makes sure all the soap is off my body. She wets my hair again and washes it. "Thank you babe. I feel refreshed. Now it's your turn". I grab the loofah and return the favor. When I'm done washing her hair and making sure all the shampoo is out of it I shut the water off and I open the shower door to grab our towels. We each dry off and put on some pajamas. Regina has on a beautiful maternity nightgown with shoulder straps that will be easy to pull down her arms to massage her back. "That's a beautiful nightgown babe. It looks incredible on you. I'm gonna have to keep you pregnant all the time if you look this gorgeous". She kisses me and says. "Emma sweetheart. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone before in my life but if you keep me pregnant all the time I swear to god that I will personally make it impossible for you to ever be able to get me pregnant again". I cough a bit and say. "I understand Regina and no need to worry I totally get your point". We both laugh and I suggested she sit in her chair at her vanity table. I take a big puffy pillow and lay it on top so she can put her head and arms on it. "Emma why can't I just lay in bed?" "Well I thought this would be better since you can't lay flat. You can rest your head on the pillow and I can massage all of your back". "Yes I guess that would be the best way. Thank you dear". I smile and give her a kiss then I get started. After a good 45 minutes I finish up the back massage. "Ok babe how was that?" I get no answer to my question and I notice she's sleeping. I hate to wake her but she really shouldn't sleep like this. I gently shake her to wake her and she slowly comes around. "Come on Gina it's time to wake up. Get up and I'll help you over to the bed". She nods and stands. I lift her nightgown back up and fix it. She gets in bed and I cover her. "Here you go sweetheart". In no time at all she's back asleep. I kiss her cheek and I go back downstairs to clean up a little.
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