Chapter 14

Chapter 14

With now being 6 months pregnant Emily and Caleb decided it was time to have the furniture for the babies room delivered. Emily was feeling so tired lately, she could barely move much now a days and she was getting so big that doing everyday things became a big obstacle for her. The doctor said for right now she could still stay at home but if she didn’t take it easy she would soon find herself on complete bed rest in the hospital. Saturday morning Caleb set Emily up in bed with everything she needed while he took the car to Babies R Us to pick everything up. Caleb felt awkward going to a baby store by himself and when the lady at the counter was ringing him up for everything she looked at him like he was crazy for needing 4 of everything. He had found it hard to tell people who didn’t know them that they were having quads. Now trying to put 4 crib boxes, 4 changing tables, and 4 of a few other things in their tiny car proved to be a big challenge. Caleb finally decided on paying for them to deliver it all the next day. He took home the smaller things like the bouncers, high chairs, and swings. When he got home he moved Emily to the living room couch and they put everything together.


The next day the truck dropped off the furniture while Emily was still sleeping. She had been up the previous night with heartburn and Braxton hicks contractions. Caleb let her sleep as late as she needed to while he worked hard trying to figure out the directions to set up the cribs. It took him almost 2 hours to set up everything and that’s when he realized something. There was no way they were going to fit 4 babies in that room. There was barely any room to walk around let alone put ALL the furniture up. Emily still wanted to get some rockers and a few other things to make the room complete. That made Caleb thing about the rest of the house, their kitchen was very small and there was no way they could fit a bigger table and 2 more chairs in the tiny dining area. All in all this house was just way too small.


Over the next few days Caleb spoke to some real-estate agents and after talking to Emily about it they decided to put the house up for sale and try to find a new one that would better suit their soon to be big family. Emily insisted on going to look at the houses even though Caleb said no. She said there was no way they were going to pick out a new house and she wasn’t going to get any say in it. On Thursday Caleb took a half day off work to go look at a house a few blocks away from the hospital in a nice subdivision. Caleb helped Emily out of the car and as they started walking up the walk way to the house Emily doubled over in pain screaming.

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Emily didn’t remember much, everything pretty much happened so fast she didn’t have time to think. One second she was on the cool pavement the next there were flashing lights and sirens and she was being put in the back of an ambulance in excruciating pain. There were EMT’s all around her hooking up wires and oxygen to her. The ride to the hospital was short since they were so close. They moved Emily straight up to the Labor and Delivery floor. Caleb had to take the car so he wasn’t there yet. They put her in a rather large room that was obviously used for the actual delivery part of labor. Emily began to freak out, she wasn’t in labor she couldn’t be she still had 3 more months to go. It was way too early for the babies to be born. Once again Emily was surrounded by doctors and nurses talking and ordering things to be done. They started and IV of something called Magnesium Sulfate which made Emily feel sick to her stomach but after a little while her contractions went away. Caleb came into the room and gave her a kiss on her forehead.
“Hey sweetie how are you feeling?” He asked
“Do you even have to ask? Look at me, I feel like crap and I kind of feel sick.” She said
“Well the doctor says that the medicine can do that to you and it’s totally normal.” Caleb said sitting down in a chair next to her.
“So what happened?” Emily asked.
“You were in premature labor, they gave you some medicine to stop the contractions and hopefully they will stay away but there is a chance they could start up again.”
Emily looked like she was about to cry. Caleb grabbed her hand and kissed it.
“Hunny this is really for the best but there is more.” He said “Because there is such a high risk that you could go into labor again the hospital wants to admit you until the babies are ready to be born. Hopefully that will be at least another 2 months but it could happen sooner and they want to make sure you’re here because they can stop it again if they catch it soon enough. At home things could happen too quickly and then they might not be able to stop it and who knows what could happen if they are born too soon.” He said
Emily sat there silently for a moment thinking things over before burring her head in her hands and sobbing loudly. Caleb wrapped his arms around her and tried to calm her down.


That night Caleb stopped back at home to pick up some of Emily’s clothes, her lap top, and some books and magazines for her to read. She was to be on complete bed rest which meant she was only allowed to get up to use the bathroom with a nurses help. She could also only take a 10 minute shower twice a week. Caleb promised that he would visit Emily as soon as he got to work in the mornings and then he would eat lunch with her and then spend as much time as he could with her after work. They would eat dinner together every night and then Caleb would go home and go to bed and do it all over again the next day.

Weeks went by and Caleb worked hard of trying to find a house. It was so hard to look at them without Emily but he took the camera and he would show her pictures to get an idea of what she thought of the house. It wasn’t looking good until a few weeks before Christmas. Caleb was doing what he could to make the house look nice for the holidays even if Emily couldn’t see it. That night as he was putting up the Christmas tree he got a call from the real-estate agent. He told Caleb there was a house that just went up for sale and he wanted him to be the first to see it first thing in the morning. Caleb got up early that morning to meet the agent at the house. It was a new construction house that was just finished being built. It was 4 bedrooms and 2 baths, a huge master bedroom. It had a big backyard with a pool. It would be the perfect house for them. The only thing was they had to paint and put in the carpeting and what not which was not a big issue for them at all. Caleb knew he could finish it in no time with a little help from family. Caleb took pictures for Emily to see and then he had to make a hard decision. There was no way the agent could keep the house from other people unless Caleb put down money on the house and signed the papers before he left to go see Emily.


Caleb decided to go for it, he knew Emily would love the house and he didn’t want to pass up the chance to have this house. While Caleb was signing the paperwork and making sure everything was set so they could start working on the house his phone rang.
“Hello” He said.
“Hello, Caleb?” a woman’s voice on the other line said.
“Yes who is this?” He asked.
“This is Karen I’m a nurse on the Labor and Delivery floor where your wife is, Im calling because your wife is being taken to the OR to be prepped for a cesarean section, her blood pressure is up very high and the babies are not responding well. You are aware she is only 7 ½ months pregnant and this means that there is a chance that the babies wont survive being outside of the womb but we figure this is the best thing for them because they have a better chance outside than inside.”
Caleb didn’t even say goodbye to her as he hung up the phone. He told the agent what was happening and the agent said he would finish up the paperwork for Caleb and he would call in a few days to let them know if everything went thought ok. Then he wished Caleb good luck as Caleb ran out the door and drove off as fast as he could.