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

“Ready,” she says.

arms and she

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

if she doesn’t stay on?” Katie asks, looking up at me.

her a calm environment to

you stay with

When it looks like Katie

“What’s the best

part

being a new mom?”

She begins telling me about watching her daughter when she’s looking at her, hearing her sweet sounds when she’s

me about how her mate wasn’t careful and Emery basically pooped all over him and then

up at her. “See, your daughter knows when you’re happy” “Hey beautiful girl,” Katie says, stroking her cheek. Emery goes back to nursing, and momma and daughter continue to look at each other, Katie cooing at

say softly, nodding to Noelle that we should

“How did you

what to do?” Noelle asks when we step out of the

a doctor or even a nurse is assessing the situation. Katie came in uptight and even said her wolf part “I didn’t. But called her overprotective, which said to me that she 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 to be helping.

be a great mom,”

that you

come out of the room. When

“Yes, thanks Luna”

something happy to talk about, or something that she did that made

thank

she leaves, I

to go find Trena. Mind link me if you need

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almost forgot I could do

pack is all kinds of excited. I wonder what they’re doing over there

we’ll find out later,

and follow it into the woods. It’s only been an hour, but she’s still out here crying

as I approach her.

Luna. Hi. Did you need something?” she asks, wiping her tears off her eyes and cheeks.

to see how you’re doing”

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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

what got into me,” she says, finally pulling

you?” I ask

at me and I know

want me, anyway. He wasn’t exactly

that time of your life would answer to me, or better

I don’t know that I could ever have someone touch me…” she slaps

Simon to protect me. He’s basically my guard when 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 option

“Simon shot him?”

wait to

wolf to return. But I do know that he’s lucky to

She nods.

in so I can examine