The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

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I’m about to go searching for Trena, when Katie comes in with her new baby girl.

“Hi, Laina. I know you just got back, but I was hoping you could look over my daughter for me.”

“Ts everything alright?” Lask her.

“I think so, but I’m not sure I’d know if something was wrong. She smells fine, and she’s sleeping well, but she’s not nursi

well”

“Okay, let’s have a look,” I say, getting Noelle to put them in a room while I quickly check that Anna and Erica are okay

When I get into the room, Katie is pacing while Noelle weighs her daughter.

“What did you name her?” I ask.

“Emery,” she says, smiling at her daughter.

“How are you and your mate adjusting to having a newborn?” I ask her.

She blows out a breath. “It’s great, you know, but…well, we both worry every time she makes a sound. I’ve never had so littl sleep”

“What does your wolf say?” I ask her.

She chuckles. “That I’m being overprotective, but that she’s worried about her not latching on and eating enough.”

I walk over to where Noelle is taking her measurements. She’s a little underweight, and she’s opening her mouth like she’s hungry, being fussy.

I take a moment to look in her mouth, not seeing anything that would keep her from being able to latch on

“Okay, let’s see how you do this,” I say to her.

“You mean right now?” she asks, and I can feel her nervous energy increasing. I pick Emery up and smile down at her as sh searches for a breast to nurse on.

I look up at Katie and see the panic on her face.

“Have a seat, Katie. Take a deep breath. I can feel your nervousness from here. If I can feel it, your daughter will too. Sit down, relax, breathe, and calm yourself. You want your daughter to feel good when she’s in your arms and nursing. If you’r nervous and anxious, it will make her nervous and anxious,” I say, I know this isn’t always the answer. Some babies, for whatever reason, don’t nurse from their mothers. But sometimes it is about the energy that the mother is giving off and in this instance, I have a feeling that Katie’s ‘overprotectiveness‘ is making her daughter anxious.

She pulls her breast out but her energy is still high.

“Sit back, get comfortable, close your eyes, and breathe,” I tell her

She looks at me a moment, looking terrified, but then she does what I ask.

It takes several breaths before she finally takes

a full, deep breath

“Good, a couple more like that,” I say, forcing her to relax even though Emery is getting more fussy

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eyes. I smile encouragingly

“Ready,” she says.

lay Emery in her arms and she immediately begins searching for

I put my hand on her shoulder. “Deep breaths. Help

on?” Katie asks, looking up

a deep breath, make sure that you’re giving her a calm environment to nurse in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll try something else,”

with me?”

watching. When it looks like Katie is starting to get nervous again,

“What’s the best

part

mom?” I ask her.

when she’s looking at her,

mate wasn’t careful and Emery basically pooped all over him and

see Emery look up at her. “See, your daughter knows when you’re happy” “Hey beautiful girl,” Katie says, stroking her cheek.

nodding to Noelle that we should leave and let them

“How did you

do?” Noelle asks when we step out

was anxious. Once you get anxious about something and it doesn’t work you start expecting it to not work and then the anxiety gets worse, and it can become a terrible cycle. I just tried break the cycle. If it hadn’t worked, we’d have had to try moving her to a bottle, but this seems

going to be a great mom,” Noelle says

me that you will

Katie to come out of the room. When she does, she has a

“Yes, thanks Luna”

yourself getting anxious, talk to your mate. Find something happy to talk about, or something that she did that made you smile, so that you can keep yourself calm while you nurse.”

will, thank

I turn

going to go find Trena. Mind link me

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“I almost forgot I could do that!”

kinds of excited. I

out later, she

woods. It’s only been an hour, but she’s

I say softly as I approach her.

something?” she asks, wiping her tears

see how you’re

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around her and letting her cry. I knew Trena from Alpha Solomon’s pack, but we’d never been really close. Alpha Solomon was busy keeping me away from Simon which meant that I was kept away from most of the pack members my age. I focused on my

so sorry, Luna. I don’t know what got into me,” she says,

you?” I

at me and I know

Simon did to me. No one would want me, anyway. He wasn’t exactly private when he’d take me,” she says. “His warriors.”

anything about that time of your life would

ever have someone touch me…” she slaps her hand over her mouth as if she’s going to be ill.

I’m at the hospital. He’s strong, but he’s also compassionate, attentive, trustworthy, and I’m pretty sure he’ll be excited to have found his mate when he wakes up. I can’t say what the best

“Simon shot him?”

wait to

return. But I do know that he’s lucky

She nods.

you to come in so I can examine you. Did Simon