Working as quickly as possible, I remove her clothes and place the soft white T-shirt over her head. She gazes up at me with trembling lips when I finish. I give her a quick, hard kiss before another contraction hits. Raul takes her hand when it ends and I move to the bottom of the bed.

"As soon as the next pain is over, we're going to move you closer to the end of the bed," I tell her like I know what I'm doing. We wait and when the pain passes, we all help guide her bottom closer to ...