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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opens her eyes. I smile encouragingly

“Ready,” she says.

she immediately begins

her shoulder. “Deep breaths. Help her find your nipple. There you

she doesn’t stay on?” Katie

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

stay with me?” she

it looks like Katie is

“What’s the best

part

new mom?” I ask

me about watching her daughter when she’s looking at

she says, laughing, then tells me about how her mate wasn’t careful and

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

softly, nodding to Noelle that we should

“How did you

to do?” Noelle asks when we step out of

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

going to be a great mom,”

you will be

I wait for Katie to come out of the room. When she does, she has

“Yes, thanks Luna”

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

thank

I

go find Trena. Mind link me if you need anything

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smiles. “I almost forgot I

of excited. I wonder what they’re doing over

we’ll find out later,

the woods. It’s only

I say softly as I

you need something?” she asks, wiping her

see how you’re

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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 studies and as I got older, I avoided

sorry, Luna. I don’t know what got

you?” I ask

and I know I’m right.

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

have someone touch me…” she

Bradley is a good man. He took a silver bullet from 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

“Simon shot him?”

wait to

silver bullet. It will be a while before he can heal from that I don’t know how long it will take for his wolf to return. But I do know that he’s lucky to be alive. So, both of you have suffered

She nods.

come in so I can examine