Two and a half weeks had past and, earthquakes and dinosaurs not withstanding, Eostre felt that she was starting to get the hang of honest to gods motherhood. She didn't feel quite as hopeless as she had any time the twins cried. She didn't feel quite so like handing them to Abby or Mike every single time ( Read more... )

Mack was crying, a thin, high pitched wail, which had started Flo crying too and Eostre was a little frazzled. She had a little girl neatly in the crook of each arm, rocking them a little, singing to them in an old, old language for new, new girls.

"Shhhhhh," she murmured. "There you go girls. My Rosamonde, my only Rose, that pleasest best mine ( Read more... )

Eostre wasn't sure that she'd looked at anything but the twins in about an hour. She was aware of Mike being there on the bed with her, and they'd even had a conversation, but she was fairly sure that she'd been staring at her babies' faces all that time ( Read more... )

Lily had told her that she had a couple of options when it came to feeding...Either she could indulge the girls every whim, or she could attempt to implement a routine. Flo seemed to want to eat more often than Mack and, during the day, Eostre was indulging her pretty much whenever she want to feed. She felt like she'd had one tit on show pretty ( Read more... )

Eostre couldn't stop looking at the twins, but, then again, she hadn't exactly tried very hard. Flo was fast asleep, snuffling and snoring a little but Mack was wide awake and watchful, her dark blue eyes darting. Eostre knew that newborn babies couldn't focus, couldn't see very far but Eostre could have sworn that her little girl was looking ( Read more... )

Eostre had drifted off with the twins in her arms, the both of them heavy and warm, milky in her arms but she stirred when somebody walked into the room. Mike had slipped out...hopefully, he'd gone to fetch her the toast that she was dying for ( Read more... )

By the end of it, she was exhausted and, when Lily mentioned toast, she realised how hungry she was, and hitting Mike had left her hand hurting, and one of her babies was crying.

One of her babies was crying.Lily was doing something with her back to Eostre and she couldn't actually see, Mike ( Read more... )