The woman sitting in the bed holding the little baby girl did not look like she had just given birth. The woman was gorgeous with her blonde hair piled up on top of her head in a messy bun and her sparkling, intelligent blue eyes couldn’t look away from the bundle in her arms.

     Emma stood to the back of the room as Jake and his friends and their partners crowded around to get a look and wish Mum, bub, and a frazzled-looking dad congratulations. She had been introduced to everyone briefly when Jake had taken her up to the waiting room, but before she could get any more than...