Dilator

Cupping her cheeks, she lowered her head and mumbled, "I don't know how this sign sudden occur. I've never felt this way since I got pregnant."

"It's Braxton Hicks." Pausing for a while, Petra added, "My dear, as a woman you need to endure alot when you're pregnant. These signs are just false labor preparing you for the major. I know it felt like mensual cramps. Get used to it."

"But, it won't occur again, right?" Jin-joo was so shaking in her words. She wished she could pull out the babies and place them in the incubator until the ninth month. "Am getting fed up with the pains and kicks and now Braxton Hicks? Aunt, it's painful."

Patting her shoulder, Petra smiled, "Yes my dear. Have it in mind that it's just two months remaining and this mansion will be occupied with gorgeous infants." Winking at her, she whispered, "Just like you." Before leaving after kissing the top of her head 'Goodnight.'

Stroking her big belly, Jin-joo curled her lips downwards, "Please stop stressing me, will you guys?"

"They're asleep, they can't hear you right now honey." Helping her to get up, Sebastian added, "Let's go inside and rest now." When she nodded, he carefully guided her towards the stairs.

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Inside their bedroom

Supporting his head with one elbow crossed above his head while he relaxes his head on the bed's headrest, Sebastian was talking with Dong-Hyun on the phone after lullabying his wife to sleep.

"Am so happy for you and my sister, man. If my parents were good human beings I would have pass the good news to them but they don't deserve it." Dong-Hyun helplessly shook his head.

"It's alright. What's the use in keeping it to yourself? You still can." Sebastian chuckled.

"You think so? I bet they won't respond anyway." Knowing the fact that his parents were such a pain in everyone's ass, Dong-Hyun decide to hide the good news to himself only. "I'll share it to grandma and my wife. If they like, they could pass it to them."

"Much better."

Pausing for a while, Dong-Hyun stated, "About my sister's little cramps, it's a sign of the main labor approaching. She's just 28 weeks pregnant."

"Hmm, I talked with my family doctor and he said same thing as well."

"You see, Seb, prodromal is just contraction of false labor. It happens to every pregnant woman including my wife. The reason why it triggers her at night is because she was fully relaxed and observant." He explained.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Sebastian shook his head, "You need to have seen how frustrated I was when she started sobbing."

"Really, you did? You should have sent pictures." He laughed.

"Like seriously, I wasn't myself for minutes. If my mom wasn't with us, I bet I might have just collapsed."

"What if I say, you still will?" Without waiting for his reply, Dong-Hyun added, "Seb, I'll tell you one thing. Husband's of pregnant women are more nervous with cold feet when their wives are being rushed to the labor ward."

"You're a medical doctor and surgeon. Things like that can barely get your feet cold."

Raising his brows, he sighed, "You're saying it that way because you think so. Maybe yes I am only when it comes to my patients but during my wife's labor period, I had other doctors do the thing."

"Why?"

"Are you crazy? I don't think I would have been able to withstand it for one bit. It's my wife we're talking about here. For that whole day, I was numb until I heard 'Congratulations sir, you had a girl.' Then, I became my normal self again."

Sebastian tried to resist the urge of bursting into laughter. He quickly covered his mouth before he wakes his princess up.

"No it's not funny. My colleagues had to comfort me." He helplessly shook his head. He will never forget the day Chung-Cha was in labor. He almost passed out.

"You who usually comfort other patients husbands is now getting comforted." Sebastian laughed. "Oh, what a coincidence."

"Man, sometimes it's terrifying. Going through the stress alongside with them, I mean tolerating those random mood swings which seem to occur in their heads every now and then, it was a hard journey I won't lie."

"Ah, you're feeling me, aren't you?" Sebastian would deny the tons of snap and scolding he usually receives from his wife every day. Sometimes he wishes she could just drop the babies and end the mood swings.

Pausing for a while, Dong-Hyun asked, "Has she gotten some dilators yet?"

"Dilators? What for?" Sebastian frowned quizzically.

"Seb, though she has an high-risk pregnancy when I first confirmed her but the last check-in I did on her wasn't the same as the first. She's going to go into normal delivery instead of a cesarean operation. It won't be easy as A, B, C."

Running his fingers through his sleeping wife's hair, Sebastian sighed, "So what do you suggest we do?"

"Get a dilator. Using gentle pressure, slowly insert the round end of the dilator into her. Make sure you insert it straight toward her spine that is her backbone area-like or at a slightly downward angle, like you'd insert a tampon."

"Okay,"

"And then, keep inserting the dilator slowly until she feel slight discomfort or muscle tension, then you'll stop. Never use force and remember, only three-quarter inch of the dilator should be the limit inside of her at least." He explained.

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