Bringing up baby Begins

Posted on Fri Mar 15th, 2019 @ 7:02am by Lieutenant Verdeath Newmark & Ensign Nhallia Newmark
Edited on on Fri Mar 15th, 2019 @ 7:13am

965 words; about a 5 minute read

Mission: Food for the Gods
Location: Newmark Family Quarters

ON:

Nhallia leaned down over the changing table and smiled at her daughter. "There we are, my dear. All clean and happy, yes? Yes, it's so nice to be clean, hmm?" She picked the baby up and cuddled her, heading back out into the main room.

Newmark had come to the quarters after a trying day at the Sick Bay.

"You know my two favorite ladies." He kissed Nhallia. "Lady in the first ..." Then the baby "Lady in training." He joked.

Nhallia smiled down at the baby. "She's already a lovely little lady," she murmured and bounced Aurea. "She most certainly is." She swayed on over to the replicator to get a drink of water. "How was your day, Baba?" she asked, splitting her attention between the glass in one hand and the baby in the other arm.

"The usual strains from too much fun; the ointments for the burns of people repairing things that bite back and a couple of people that should be sent to see the Counselor Spartacus to get their heads knocked straight." He shrugged. "Nothing much other than an away team being formed and maybe some plastic surgery."

"Plastic surgery?" Nhallia said with a frown. "For an away team?"

"The planet sent a distress signal but the native inhabitants do not appear to have the technology so away team may have to blend." Newmark shrugged as he ordered a tea from the replicator. "Waiting for scans and such but on stand by should it be needed.

"Oh, is that what's happening," she said distractedly as she focused on Aurea again. She was starting to stick out her tongue and make sucking noises; it was a bit early for her to be hungry again, but the signs were unmistakable. "Hey, little Missy, are you hungry already? Alright, let's get you some supper, hmm?" she assured the baby as she started to head back to the nursery and the comfortable rocking chair there.

"What would Mother like for Dinner?" Newmark asked as she walk. "One of the nurses gave me a Egg plant Parmesan we could have if you like?"

"That should be fine," Nhallia said as she settled in to 'top off' the baby. "Extra pasta for me, make it whole grain please?" Nhallia mentally went over what she'd been eating that day- she'd had a salad at lunch, snacks had been nuts or avacado, breakfast had been an egg white omelet... She was low on carbohydrates today, which was probably why she was hungry. Feeding a baby was, biologically speaking, hard work, and she was eating more now than she had before her pregnancy.

"As you wish." He smiled while making the adaptations to the menu. "Is it me or does Aurea seems to be getting bigger each time I see her?"

Nhallia smiled down at her nursing daughter and rocked gently. "Seems like, doesn't it? She's getting bigger and stronger and more lovely every moment," she said.

"She comes from beautiful Genes." Newmark was watching the various dishes appear in the replicator and transferring them to the table. "Sometimes a person gets lucky." He completed his task. "Have the girls been asking about a concert return yet?"

"No, they know it's not time to go back to the stage. I'm a little busy in the evenings right now," she laughed.

"I have heard echoes in the Tactical Department about their best lady being gone too long." He joked. "The XO was asking how you are."

"Too long? It's hardly been any time at all. Well, since Aurea was born anyway. I can hardly be held responsible for the light duty and bed rest I was forced on," Nhallia said with a little glare at the main room. Her husband, after all, had been the one to insist on the bed rest weeks before the end of her pregnancy. She had not been happy at all with that. "If they think I'm shortening my maternity leave because of that, they're crazy."

"I must have relayed it wrong; they wanted to let you know they miss you in the department." Newmark relayed. "They will not take you off leave prematurely."

"You bet they won't," Nhallia said harshly, then softened as she looked back down at Aurea. "Not when Maisha is needed at home, right my little love?"

Newmark had to be more careful about the way he stated things while still having a wife on Maternity leave.

"I think I can manage a Doctor's note when needed." He chuckled hoping to keep it light?

"Yes, Baba will make sure Maisha is here for you," she murmured and adjusted her hold a little. Nhallia rocked with Aurea, noticing that her feeding was slowing down. She'd be full soon, then it would about time for a nap. Aurea didn't sleep through the night so much as she took slightly longer naps at nighttime. Nhallia was getting good at eating, cleaning up, and napping herself while Aurea was sleeping, but it was hardly like a normal sleep schedule.

Newmark had to admit that he was; in a way, right about his loving wife, she was a good mother. At first the idea of children scared Nhallia; bad memories of her own mother and thoughts of it being genetic had put her off motherhood. Then a near death experience wakened the desire to have children and while nervous in the pregnancy, when Nhallia first saw Aurea the doubts were gone. She just did her best and the Little One seemed to take that as the way things are.

To say he was proud of his wife is an understatement. He quietly moved to where Nhallia fed the baby.

"Your turn at food is ready when you are." He whispered and gave her a wink.

TBC

 

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