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No Boobs are Useless

Dylan

One week later…

“Hey, Dyl, how’s it going?” Jack asks.

I slide out from underneath the car I’ve been working on. “Well, I was just about asleep under there, so you tell me.”

“Been a rough first week, huh?”

“A little,” I say. “We are adjusting. It’s just taking some time.”

“You didn’t have to come back to work. You could have told me you needed more time.”

“I know. And I may take it. But I knew Jamie was supposed to be out for a few days, and I didn’t want to leave you high and dry. When he’s back, I may take some more time. The baby just came earlier than we thought she would.”

He reaches to the counter behind him and hands me an energy drink.

“You’re a godsend,” I joke while cracking open the can.

“Figured you could use some caffeine. When Beth was born, I lived on energy drinks and coffee.”

“It was rough for you guys too, huh?” I ask.

“I think it’s rough for all parents with a new baby. They sort of suck the life out of you, but you can’t get mad at them because they are so cute.”

I take a break, and the two of us walk into Jack’s office to sit down and talk for a minute.

“How’s Leah doing?” He asks.

“I don’t know. I mean, I think she’s doing a great job, but she’s struggling with believing that about herself. Her milk hasn’t come in fully, so we have been having to do formula off and on. Leah is just so hard on herself, thinking that she’s not doing something right.”

“That’s always rough,” he says.

“Yeah. I don’t mind the formula feeding because I can do more of it while Leah sleeps. She doesn’t have to get up every single time the baby needs to eat. But at the same time, I know she wanted that experience. She keeps muttering to herself about how her boobs got so much bigger but are now completely useless.”

He laughs. “As a guy, I don’t think we would ever say any boobs are completely useless.”

“I think me saying that would land better when I’m actually able to show her how much I enjoy them. Right now, even if I tell her she looks pretty, she snaps at me calling me a liar.”

He smiles. “Ah, yes. I remember those times well.”

“How did you get through them?”

He runs his hand through his beard. “Dude, I am not an expert at any of this shit. Our baby is only a few months old, and we are still figuring shit out every day. All I did was try to be there for Liz as best as I could. I let her call the shots and just supported her decisions. It took a few weeks, but she came around and is about back to normal. We’ve gotten in a pretty good routine.”

“Yeah,” I agree. “That’s what I’m trying to do.”

“I heard Andre and Suzanne came over and helped you guys out with everything.”

“Thank God. With Luna coming five weeks early, we were so unprepared. They were lifesavers.”

“That’s what Liz was saying.”

“Was she pissed or something?” I ask.

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