Chapter 209 – #209. Children
As we welcome the new year, we move into the house we designed ourselves and start living our newlywed life.
It was a happy thing to decorate a house we designed ourselves one by one according to our tastes, and we thought that this time contained warmth that money could not buy.
It was a winter’s day with very white snow.
“Brother! Brother!”
At the urgent cry from inside the bathroom, I hurriedly got up and ran to her wife.
“Uh! Why!”
“I think I’m getting amniotic fluid…”
Having been notified in advance that the delivery date was approaching, I quickly brought the clothes Naeun had prepared for the day before.
“I’ll clean and organize this and leave right away, so oppa is waiting outside. Got it?”
“Uh! If you need anything else, give me a call right away. Then I’ll be waiting for you!”
Coming out of the bathroom, I quickly put on my coat and socks.
I think it’s the first time I’ve ever driven on a snowy day like this…
Although I was worried, I recognized that it was not the time to be scared, so I called the hospital, following the manual I had talked about before.
[Hello. I think her wife is going to give birth, but […
I called and took measures so that I could go to the delivery center right away, and I waited for Naeun to come out.
It’s better to give birth, so why am I so nervous?
I’m the one who has to keep the seat next to you.
After washing her face several times to regain her senses, Naeun, who came out wearing an orange sweater and black pants, got into the car.
Fluff
“Whoa… Let’s go. Did you call the hospital?”
“Huh. Come to the delivery room right away. Aren’t you sick?”
“Not yet…? Do you think it’s okay? Not much yet, except for some amniotic fluid?”
“Thank god. Hey.”
I wondered if I would suffer from the car, but I took a breath and headed to the hospital as quickly as I could.
The distance to the hospital usually took about 30 minutes, but today I managed to cut it for 20 minutes, and I opened my umbrella and stood next to Naeun.
“Cold. Let’s go in quickly.”
“What is it. Oppa, don’t you normally use an umbrella on snowy days?”
“I’m afraid you’re cold. Will I use it without averting my eyes?”
Holding my umbrella in one hand and Naeun’s hand in the other, I entered the hospital.
“I’ll come this way, mother-in-law.”
The first thing I thought was that I was fortunate to have contacted them in advance.
I think it would have been another year if I had applied for this in front of me.
The nurse took Naeun right away for an examination, and I nervously sat down on the chair and put my hands together.
Please be healthy…
How long has it been since I met Naeun again in her private hospital room for childbirth.
“What do you say? Naeun?”
“Only the amniotic fluid broke first, and the cervix is still there.”
“Is there a problem or nothing like that?”
“Fortunately.”
Afterwards, Naeun received a painless injection to relieve the pain of childbirth, and in that way, we had time for childbirth.
2 hours elapsed.
“Are you still not sick?”
“Umm… Rather than being sick, does it feel like your stomach is gurgling?”
As a man, I tried to sympathize, but I couldn’t do it, but I still tried to sympathize with ignorance.
“I know that too. That’s milk from the army.”
“Do we really have to talk about the military until this day?”
Why do you hate talking about the military like that?
I don’t think I’ve done that much.
“Anyway, just suffer for a few hours. Honey.”
When I held her hand tightly, Naeun responded with a fresh smile.
“If I frown, I might get a little ugly.”
“Instead, the pretty faces will be shown by the babies.”
“Then I should be a little ugly today.”
After about an hour, the smile could no longer be found on Naeun’s lips.
“…Does it hurt a lot?”
“Isn’t this the pain of this world?”
Naeun’s hands trembled as she frowned.
“Wow… Oppa… Real oppa should try this too…”
“I want to hurt you instead.”
After her bitter smile, I conveyed her words to her wife with all her sincerity.
If I could get sick instead of Naeun, I would do it again and again.
“Ugh…!”
“Naeun. Breathe even if it hurts. You have to breathe.”
After hearing the explanation that healthy childbirth is possible only when breathing stops, I tried my best to help her deliver safely.
“Ruler. Breathe, mother-in-law~”
The nurse was also by her side, repeating her support and action guidelines for Naeun.
Naeun’s face began to straighten out little by little each time she received an additional painless injection.
“I’ll go to the delivery room for the mother now.”
“Eh? Already?”
Naeun reacted as if she was not ready.
“Yes. I will sit in a wheelchair over here now~”
Na-eun and I, who were looking at me with her dumbfounded expression, and I talked to her for a while and then gave her words of support.
“Naeun. You can do it! Go for it!”
“Uh… Brother? I… I’m going… I’ll come…?”
How long have you waited for her?
It was difficult for me to sit still, so I continued to walk in front of the delivery room, but the nurse who opened the automatic door and came out…
“You are such a healthy son~”
Son.
My son, so tiny, was crying loudly.
“Ah…”
I couldn’t say anything well.
It was just that the idea that the child looked so lovable was dominating my brain.
“Mom… Is the mother okay?”
“Yes! Now that your daughter is giving birth smoothly, you should be able to see her soon.”
After my son, who was born slightly earlier, passed by me, I couldn’t hide a happy smile.
He has a lot of hair.
You won’t have to worry about hair loss later.
She kept replaying her son’s face and crying in her head.
The automatic door opens again.
“You waited so long! You are my daughter~”
Is it because she is a daughter?
If the son’s cry a moment ago was like that of a general, the daughter’s cry was relatively quiet.
“You were born so healthy and pretty~ If you wait a little bit, I will guide you so you can go see your wife, so please wait~”
When the nurse escorted my daughter like that, I smiled happily alone.
“It was really hard. Hannah.”
I just wanted to go see my wife.
* * *
“Brother.”
“Huh?”
“Cancel.”
“What.”
“Cancel the idea of making a soccer team.”
Naeun, whose face turned white, struggled to smile.
“I don’t think I can do this twice.”
“I had a hard time giving birth to two.”
As he grabbed her hand, Naeun shook her head.
“Have you seen the kids?”
“Then I saw it.”
“I want to see you soon too.”
“Pretty. I look like you.”
As I stroked her head as if to reassure her, she closed her eyes.
“It is natural.”
“Did you call your mother and father?”
“Then. I gave it all to my father-in-law and her mother-in-law.”
Of course, I had to inform the elders of the family about this slant.
“Your name, then, can you send it today?”
“Maybe?”
It was my dad who said that he knew a wonderful naming place from a few months ago and would come to receive a name.
My wife readily accepted it, saying that it was okay as long as it wasn’t a very strange name, and I didn’t have a name that I wanted to be like this unconditionally, so any name that had a good meaning or a good name was welcome.
“You are a son and a daughter~”
Two of her nurses came in one after another and placed her children in Naeun’s arms.
“And…”
Naeun’s eyes, which had lost their vitality from her fatigue, twinkled.
“Oh my god. Brother. Look at this. We… They say it’s our son and daughter!”
“I met you earlier and met you?”
“Oh my God… Wow… So… So pretty…”
A single tear rolled down Nayeon’s cheek.
“It was so hard. Honey.”
“Ahhh… Really…”
Na-Eun, who burst into tears as if her emotions were blessed, cried as if resonating with her children.
“Brother…”
“Huh.”
“Have you still not replied to their names?”
“For a moment.”
I rummaged through the back pocket of my jeans and pulled out my phone.
[3 missed calls]
[12 unread messages]
Seeing that they are all mothers and fathers, there must be something.
When I unlocked the screen and opened the screen, my dad wrote down the name and four weeks in detail and sent it to his cell phone.
“Uh! Come!”
“What is it? Is that a pretty name?”
“Ah oh…”
Mother. Father.
Hello, is this name the most blessed name?
“The boy is Lee Se-ho. They say the girl is Lee Se-hwa, do you like it?”
“Huh! I like both.”
“It’s Sehwa! Seho!”
I just stared at the scene as my wife looked at the children lovingly.
…But this naming place is not an illegal establishment or a quack, right?
I had no choice but to pray earnestly that the dream was an open dream.
