The Making Of Us

Taylor was in recovery for almost two hours before they got her into another room. It was about six o’clock at night, we were all sitting in her room waiting for Louis to come take us two at a time to see the baby.

“So Tay, how’s it feel to be a mommy?” I ask her

“Well I haven’t had much time to process it all. I really had no idea I was pregnant in the first place. But I guess I’ll take what is thrown at me, I couldn’t be happier to have her with Louis though. He is going to make an amazing daddy” Taylor says

We sit and talk amongst ourselves for another twenty minutes when Louis walks into the room. He walks over to Taylor and embraces her with the biggest hug kissing her head softly.

“She’s perfect, she has beautiful blue eyes and an amazing amount of hair on her little head. Erm the nurses want to know what her name is, so how bout you choose” He says to her.

“Johannah Josephine Tomlinson; Johannah after your mom, Josephine is my mom’s middle name so we can call her Jo or Jojo.” Taylor says

“That’s perfect our mom’s will love it. Speaking of mom’s I saw yours come in the doors so I reckon she’ll be up here soon and mine is landing in 5hours.” Louis says

Johannah Josephine Tomlinson
Born: Friday June 13
Time: 4:18pm
Weight: 2lbs 3oz 14inches long

That’s what the sticker reads in her little bassinet. Her tiny body has all kinds of tubes hanging off of her; she has a feeding tube, heart monitor, pulse ox, and an IV in the top of her head along with a ventilator tube. But they said they’re taking the vent off and putting oxygen on her to see if she can tolerate it. It’s Niall and I that are up here with Lou it kind of scares me to know that I could possibly have these kind of complications too. The nurses told us though that girl preemies are a lot tougher than boys are. They don’t know why but girls always seem to do much better. Niall and I make our way back to Taylor’s room; we walk in and Kim is there. I walk over and give her a hug.

“Congratulations Granny K” I say to her

“Thank you Cassie, I wish we would have waited a little longer but what’s happened has happened. I’m just glad my baby is OK and my grand baby is OK” she says

“Yea I asked the doctor about how I got pregnant when I had the IUD. She told me when the nurse was checking me it had just been sitting inside of me. So it fell out and I didn’t even know it. It wasn’t hurting me or anything and apparently it didn’t phase me any when Louis and I would have sex either.” Taylor explained

“Well I heard that a lot of people are having problems with those anyways be lucky that you didn’t get an infection from it. It could have harmed you and the baby as well. I’m happy for you and Lou. You guys will be great parents.” I say to Taylor.

ONE MONTH LATER
Baby Johannah is still in the NICU but she’s getting stronger every day. She doesn’t need the oxygen anymore and she’s been upgraded to a normal bassinet. The doctors are thinking maybe she can come home in the next few weeks. She’s gained a little bit of weight, she’s up to

2 lbs 10 oz now. Taylor got to come home three days after having Jojo, she was in a lot of pain due to the thirty six staples she had in her gut. Louis stayed with her at her house for a week before they had to go back to London and finish up the tour. He’s coming back here to the states in five days. Taylor and I are going to live in London for the summer when the baby gets out of the hospital.

I ride with Tay to go see JoJo today. One of the nurses came in and asked Taylor is she’d like to take Johannah home today. She looked at me excitedly and asked

“What do you think?” I gave a two thumbs up before she turned back to the nurse

“What changed the doctor’s mind about her coming home and YES I’d love for my baby to come home.” She says

“Well doctor Pollizo says she’s doing an amazing job and she’s passed all her tests and she looks good. So he said she can leave today if you’d like.” The nurse explains

“Yes please I want my baby home with me.” Taylor says

Taylor sits in the back seat cooing at the baby as I drive back to her house. When she came home from the hospital Niall, Louis and I helped convert the room next to hers into a nursery. We got Zayn, Liam and Harry to go do the shopping; they got the cutest crib/dresser/changing table set and all the linens and clothes, just everything. The boys came in with tons of bags full of purple and pink clothing basically anything pertaining to a girl…. They bought it. The room is painted a lavender color with a white trim.

Zayn and his awesome drawing skills painted JoJo on her wall above her crib and little butterflies all over then on the opposite wall he wrote in cursive writing ‘Butterfly Fly Away’ which is Taylor’s favorite song by Miley Cyrus. The crib and dresser and changing table is a semi dark finish and compliment the room well. Of course the sheets and blanket for the crib is purple and butterflies. Harry also bought two other sets one is pink with butterflies and the other is purple and pink with leopard print. Everything the boys got turned out great.
I pull into Taylor’s driveway when my phone rings. I dig through my purse and see that it’s Louis calling. Why is he calling me?

“hello” I say into the phone

“Hi love how are things going?” he asks me

“Things are going great, my morning sickness has gone away for the most part. You sound nervous what’s up?” I ask

“Taylor won’t answer her phone and I called the hospital and they told me they don’t have a Johannah in the directory.” He says

“Here I’ll let you talk to her she’s sitting right here” I hand the phone to Tay

“Hey baby what’s going on?” she asks

“I’ve been trying to call you all day” Louis says

“Sorry baby I left my phone at home, guess what I have excellent news” Taylor says

“What’s that love?” Lou replies

“Johannah got to come home today! The doctor released her. He said she’s doing great and he didn’t see any problem stopping her from coming home. So with that we could possibly be coming to London sooner. She really misses her daddy and so do I” Taylor says in a pouty tone.

“That’s excellent! I will talk to the lads and figure stuff out I’m going to need to get some baby stuff for here but we can work all that out later. I love you Taylor Nicole Mays and tell Miss Johannah Josephine Tomlinson daddy misses her beautiful face too.” He says

Over the next week with the ok with the baby’s doctor and from my doctor we decide to go to London two weeks earlier than we were supposed to.

Notes

AWEEE the baby's name is so adorbs :) and she's a Friday the 13th baby