Page 154 of Sin With Me
After she leaves, I scoot my chair closer and tighten my hand around her hers. Then I rest my head down on her arm, needing to feel her warmth.
"Sir? Mr. Hollis?"
"Mm?" My head pops up, and I'm greeted with a grating headache.
"Sorry to wake you, but the doctor ordered an ultrasound, so I just need to lift up her gown so I can access her stomach."
I lean back, giving her room, and then watch as she puts gel on a wand and rolls it around Deliliah's stomach.
"What are you checkin’ exactly?" I ask after a few minutes.
As far as I know, Delilah didn't suffer from any internal injuries.
She smiles, then increases the volume of the fluttering noise. "Just checkin' the baby's heart rate. Except..."
Her face twists and then her wand's moving again.
"Yep, just what I thought...there aretwoheartbeats."
"Wait. Back up. She's pregnant?" I stand, no longer able to sit still.
"Y'all didn't know?"
"Um, no? T-This is the first time I'm hearin' about it..."
I'm so flustered, I can hardly speak.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. They took her blood when she first arrived, which is how we knew her blood sugar was low, but her hCG levels were high so we tested for pregnancy."
"And?"
She glances at me, grinning. "And it was positive. It wasn’t in her file and we weren't sure how far along she was, so that's why I'm doin' the ultrasound. We wanted to make sure the baby, or rather babies, are okay. She's still in early pregnancy, so you can't see much, but there are two sacs."
She points to two dark round spots on the screen.
I stare at where her finger is, but I'm still stuck on the her being pregnant part.
"First time dad?" She smiles.
"Um yeah...first time husband, too."
She chuckles.
"How far along is she?"
"Without knowin' the first day of her last period, it's a bit hard to tell at this stage, but based on their measurements, probably six to seven weeks.
"We didn't have sex until our honeymoon..." I count the weeks in my head to when our honeymoon was. "Five weeks ago."
"Okay, so that's accurate then. Pregnancy's determined by the first day of her last period and since she would've ovulated in the middle of her cycle, about two weeks later, that'd line up with the conception timeframe."
"Huh?" I'm overwhelmed and have no idea what she just said.
"The babies’ fetal age is five weeks, but their gestational age is seven weeks."
"Oh." So she definitely got knocked up during our honeymoon.
She wipes off the wand and then cleans Delilah's stomach before lowering her gown. "I'll print out a few pictures for you."
