Not The Surrogate Baby They Ordered
"Elena. Elena, do you understand what this means?"
"I don't think I can fully understand anything right now," Elena admitted, laughing through her own tears, looking down at the small face now blinking sleepily up at her, entirely unaware of the storm of relief currently breaking over the room on her behalf. "I've spent so long preparing for something else. Preparing to love her exactly as she was going to be, no matter what that looked like. I don't know how to just — let that fear go, all at once."
"You don't have to let it go all at once," Dr. Reyes said kindly. "Relief takes time to settle, the same way fear did. Just let yourself be here, with her, and let the rest catch up when it's re