The Macintyres- A Scary Delivery

In the latter part of Ella' pregnancy, her and Tucker decide to buy Max some new toys to play with since, when they first bring the baby home, he might feel a bit starved for attention.  Max doesn't care about the reasons, he's just pysched to get some new backyard toys!

Tucker frantically cleans the house preparing for the baby, it's almost like HE'S the one nesting! He's a neat freak anyway...

Ella and Tucker enjoy the last few nights of being a family of 4!

Later that night, Tucker and Max try out the new slip n slide out back! Tucker asks Max is he's excited to be a big brother again, and he says "Yea! This time I really want a little brother to play with though- don't tell Mom!" Tucker laughs.

In the middle of that night, Ella wakes up feeling a bit crampy. She says she's fine and falls back asleep. At 2:30 am, Tucker gets an emergency page- they need him down at Rosedale Memorial!  He's hesitant to leave his pregant wife this way, but duty calls. He heads down to the hospital.

Sure enough, after Tucker was gone about an hour, Ella wakes up with terrible pain.  It was a jarring pain, an incredibly intense ache, and did not feel like the contractions that she had had with the other two children. This was different; it felt like her body was being ripped in half. She couldn't move, only scream.

Max wakes up to her cries, and manages to call a sitter for Addison, and an ambulance for his mom.  The whole time, Ella is screaming..."Something is wrong..something is WRONG!"

They get her to the hospital and as she's entering, Tucker is exiting, and see's his pregnant wife struggling to the door.  He flies to her side and gets her safely in.

It turns out that Ella is hemorrhaging and the baby is in distress.  Things are very scary for awhile, and Tucker is yelling orders at the nurses, his face twisted in panic.  They rush Ella into have a C-section to get the baby out safely.  Thankfully, several hours later, mom and baby are, indeed safe.  The doctors tell Ella that there was some damage done to her uterus, and there's a possibility that she may be infertile now, and unable to have any more children.  While this is disappointing her and Tucker are so thrilled that everything turned out alright and that everyone is healthy, it is a minor point.  They were probably done after this baby anyway.  They take turns snuggling little Simon Blake, the newest addition to the Macintyre family!