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Kosaburou was starting to get used to things like this, he thought as he stood in the middle of a store aisle comparing breast pumps in the middle of the night. He finally decided on the more expensive but sturdier looking one and tossed it into the basket. He picked up a pack of the "specially contoured" bottles with "easy flow nipples", cringed at the price, and dumped it into the basket as well.
He checked out and took the purchases back to his home, where half the lights in the house were on. Kentaro was wailing over the sound of Nanako's favorite video. Yamato was rocking him and trying to offer her breast to him, despite having sent Kosaburou out to get the pump.
"Kosa!" Nanako jumped up from the floor and attached herself to his leg. "What did you buy? Did you buy anything for me?"
"No, sorry." Kosaburou hefted her into his arms and presented the bags to Yamato. "All for Yamato and Baby. Do you want some hot cocoa, though?"
"Hot cocoa!" She threw her hands in the air.
"Let me help your sister get baby situated." He set her down and started unwrapping boxes. "Did I get the right one?"
Yamato nodded. "Thank you."
"You look exhausted." Kosaburou took Kentaro from her. "Why don't you pump and then get some sleep? I'll try to feed both of the children."
"God, you have no idea how much I would appreciate that." Yamato blearily attached tubes and cords to the apparatus. Kosaburou shuddered. Women were tough; he wouldn't want that stuff anywhere near his nipples, and his weren't even tender from hormones and swollen from milk.
Once she was finish pumping, she handed the bottle over to Kosaburou, kissed Nanako goodnight, and disappeared into the bedroom, shutting the door behind her.
Kosaburou screwed the lid onto the bottle and sat down in the rocking chair. "Hello there, Kentaro." His son opened his eyes wide and looked around, not quite focusing on anything. "Let's try to eat, alright? You must be really hungry." He stroked Kentaro's cheek, and he opened his mouth wide. Kosaburou smiled and stuck the bottle into his mouth.
Kentaro sucked eagerly on the bottle, but he didn't seem to be any more successful with the rubber nipple than he had with his mother's. Kosaburou adjusted positions, but no matter how he held the bottle Kentaro kept choking and coughing. Nanako finally fell asleep in front of the television, and Kosaburou eventually dozed off, his legs still rocking the chair back and forth.
He woke up a few hours later to Yamato moving around the house in the early morning light. She was dressed professionally, and if Kosaburou didn't know any better he would have assumed she was heading off to work. She shouldered the small diaper bag and took Kentaro from Kosaburou.
"Where are you headed?" He asked quietly, putting his hand on her side.
"I'm taking him to a pediatrician," Yamato pressed her cheek against the baby's head and closed her eyes, pain and worry dissipating just a little from her expression as she held him. "I've found one closeby who takes cash and comes highly recommended for feeding problems."
He smiled at her and patted her hip. "It will be alright." He wished he could take the dark circles from under her eyes. "I'll stay here with Nanako. Call me if you need anything."
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"How long will he have to have it in?" Domino shook a toy Tediursa over Kentaro's head. He stared at it with wide eyes, trying to focus on it.
"Hopefully not very long." Yamato grabbed his feet in one hand and lifted his bottom off the floor so she could wipe him with the other. "They think when he's two he'll be able to start eating normally again. I'm just worried he'll try to pull it out of his stomach when he's older."
"Poor baby." Domino made the bear kiss him.
"I know," Yamato dropped the used wipe onto the soiled diaper and set Kentaro back down on a clean one. "But he's gained a pound since they put the tube in last week." She fastened his diaper, being careful not to disturb the tube that was taped to the side of his stomach. "Watch him for a second, okay?" She rolled the used diaper up as she walked into the kitchen and tossed it into the trash.
Domino was attempting to play peekaboo with him. "Damnit, Yamato, you make having kids look so charming! Now I want one."
"I thought you were on the shot?"
"Of course I am, but that doesn't mean I don't want one." Domino pouted.
"You should probably wait until you're not dating Bishasu," Yamato put Kentaro on her shoulder and rose from the floor.
"You don't like him?"
"No, it's not that," Yamato grabbed a nearby blanket and covered the baby, "I just think any kid of his would be too big to safely come out of you!"
"Yamato," Domino groaned. "Do you know how often I hear that?"
"A lot, I'm sure." Yamato laughed. "Even so, I think rubber should be your new best friend. Will you go find Nanako for me?"