In the delivery room, Janet's water broke, and an experienced female doctor was delivering her baby.
Daniel turned around to stop Sven from coming in and yelled, "Get out!"
Sven protested, "But I'm a doctor..."
"We already have a doctor here. Get out!" Daniel insisted.
Helpless, Sven took off his mask and left the delivery room.
While she saw Daniel coming in, Janet couldn't bear the pain and screamed loudly, "Ah!!! It hurts!"
Hearing her, Daniel yelled at the doctor, "Be gentle!"
The doctor was so frightened that her hands trembled.
How could he blame her? Janet's pain was not her fault.
Janet gripped his palm, shook her head, and said, "No, it's not her... Ah... It hurts!"
Janet had prepared herself mentally for this day. If Daniel wasn't there, she was determined to be strong and to give birth to the baby in silence.
But now that he was back, all of Janet's strength vanished. She simply wanted to scream out loud with all the pain she was experiencing...
Daniel put his wrist on her lips and said, "Jane, open your mouth and bite me."
Janet was in so much pain that she didn't refuse. She bit him hard on his wrist, trying to bear the pain of giving birth.
When she had tasted blood, Janet suddenly loosened her bite.
Daniel pulled up his other arm's sleeve and asked her to bite it, but Janet refused. She said, "No... Ah! It's not necessary... The baby will be out soon."
But, in fact, the pain grew stronger.
The doctor told Janet, "Mrs. Si, please push harder. I can see the baby's head coming out."
...
Janet was so exhausted. She felt that she had already used up all her energy, but only the baby's head was out.
She remembered that it wasn't this slow when she gave birth to the twins...
The doctor's words triggered Daniel's curiosity. Without loosening his grip on Janet's hand, he moved a few steps. His heart trembled when he saw the baby coming out.
Janet followed the nurse's guidance and kept breathing in and out evenly.
A couple of minutes later, the baby finally was born.
The look on Daniel's face was almost the same as that of Jerry's when he had witnessed Sally's delivery.
This serious man was now wearing a confused look on his face. He took the crying baby from the doctor's arms.
"Mr. Si and Mrs. Si, congratulations. It's a boy!" cheered the doctor. The greetings then came one by one, but Daniel was still in a daze, as he held his crying son in his arms.
He had never expected that it was such a tormenting thing for a woman to give birth.
'My Jane...'
"Darling." Daniel heard Janet's soft voice and finally came back to his senses.
He then realized that the nurse in front of him had already been waiting for a long while. He passed his son to the nurse and patted the baby's butt, saying, "You brat!"
"..."
Janet wondered how a newborn had irritated him.
Janet's bed was pushed to a ward. Carrying their bags while jumping with excitement, the twins came into the ward. "Daddy!" called Michelle.
"Daddy! Oh! Daddy!" called Melissa. Michelle was composed, while Melissa was so thrilled to see her father that she jumped into Daniel's arms.
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