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It'd been two months since Leo had picked Ezra up from a party at one in the morning smelling strongly of sweat and semen with his clothes and hair in disarray. He'd been so drunk that he'd passed out as soon as he'd hit his bed, and hadn't stirred as Leo had taken off his clothes and cleaned him up. And if, while cleaning Ezra's puffy, well-used hole, Leo added to the cum trickling out of it, it wasn't like Ezra would know.
Two months on, and it may just have been wishful thinking, but it looked like Ezra's shirts were getting a little tighter around the middle. Leo only had to wait another week before Ezra came to him complaining of persistent stomach cramps.
"Take this." Leo held out one of the boxes he'd bought the previous week.
"Are you serious?" Ezra said incredulously as he eyed the box. "A pregnancy test?"
"That's what it says on the box, yes. Can you read the instructions too, or do you want me to help you?"
"I can do it." Ezra sullenly took the box and disappeared into the bathroom.
He came out a few minutes later with the stick in hand. "I can't believe I got pregnant from that stupid party," he said as he frowned down at the test like it was lying to him.
"With the amount of cum I had to clean out of your ass that night, I'd be more surprised if you hadn't gotten pregnant," Leo muttered as he rifled through the medicine cabinet. "Here, for the cramps," he said louder as he held out two sleeping pills.
Ezra took them without question. "So how do I get rid of it?"
Leo raised an eyebrow. "Why would you do that?"
"I—wait, you want me to have this baby?" Ezra sputtered.
"I've been too lenient with you, Ezra. I've let you run around doing whatever you wanted for too long, and this is where it's gotten you. But don't worry, I think this will end up being an important lesson."
"I'm not ready to be a father!"
"You should have thought of that before you decided to sleep around with a bunch of horny teenage boys who've probably already forgotten your face if they even saw it the first time around. Maybe it's better that it happened now while you've still got me around to help you. I'll take care of you and the baby, there's nothing for you to worry about." Leo began to herd Ezra towards the bedrooms.
"B-but what if I don't want the baby?"
"If you really feel you're not ready to raise a child, we can give it up for adoption, or I can raise it for you as your younger sibling. But it's too soon to be making those decisions."
"What if I don't want to be pregnant?"
"You decided that when you spread your legs for those boys like some whore off the street. Now, as your father and your doctor, I'm telling you that you have to accept responsibility for your actions."
He urged Ezra not into his own room but into the master bedroom.
"You're feeling overwhelmed, I know," Leo said as he pushed Ezra onto the bed. "Get some rest, you'll feel better afterwards." To make sure his words were obeyed, Leo withdrew a pair of leather cuffs from the nightstand and secured Ezra's wrists to the headboard.
"Come on, Dad," Ezra protested, "I don't need—"
"It's for your own good," Leo said. "I need to go out to get some things, and I need to know that you'll be resting while I'm out. You've got more than just yourself to think of now, remember?"
He shut the door before Ezra could say anything else. Either Ezra would settle down himself, or the sleeping pills would do it for him.
-
Leo converted the study to a makeshift examination room, obtaining an examination chair and ultrasound machine through his contacts at work, and purchasing a small rolling cabinet in which to keep all the tools he would need. This included an assortment of dildos and butt plugs ranging from less than two fingers wide to having the circumference of both of Leo's wrists put together. They'd work their way up to that one. For now, he took the smallest plug and a chastity belt and went into the master bedroom.
As Leo had been hoping, Ezra was still knocked out, which made it easy to work the plug into his hole and buckle on the chastity belt. It came with a built-in cage for his cock and a removable flap in the back that allowed for access to his hole without removing the belt. Once it was on, Leo released the cuffs that were holding Ezra spread out across the bed and fully undressed him; Leo planned to have Ezra naked around the house as much as possible to enjoy watching the swell of his belly grow with the passing months, and he might as well start now.
Ezra began to stir not long after, his hands immediately going to the belt even though he wasn't fully conscious yet.
Leo pushed his hand away. "Don't touch that."
"Dad?" Ezra mumbled blearily. "What…" He looked down at himself and immediately became alert. "What is this?"
"It's what I should have done before you went and got yourself pregnant, but better late than never; it's about time you learned some self-control."
"You can't be serious." Ezra ran his hands along the waist of the belt, stopping when he found the padlock at the back. "How am I supposed to go to the toilet? And where are my clothes?"
"You can urinate sitting down, and I'll be giving you an enema every day so you shouldn't need to defecate. If you find you need to, you can come find me and I'll remove the plug. I've arranged things with the clinic so I can work from home for the next few months. As for your clothes, I conducted a physical while you were asleep, and it was easier to remove your clothes than work around them. I've left them at the end of the bed for you, but you might want to take a shower first. The belt stays on. Make sure you dry thoroughly."
Ezra remained in a mood about the belt all evening, but Leo simply ignored the sulking and the pointed shifting of Ezra's weight from one side to the other during dinner as he tried to get comfortable in his chair. He retreated to his bedroom after dinner and Leo let him be for the rest of the evening.
-
In the morning, Leo was pleased to see that Ezra was in a much more agreeable mood. He hardly fought when Leo informed him that they would be starting the day with an enema, though he did keep his eyes averted throughout the procedure.
"Now, you're going to need an ultrasound," Leo said. "Fortunately for you, I've been able to acquire all the equipment we need for in-home care so we don't have to go anywhere. It'll make it easier to monitor your pregnancy and ensure that everything is going smoothly."
Leo refrained from reinserting the plug since he would only need to remove it again in a few short minutes, and took Ezra to the study. When he opened the door, Ezra balked at the sight of the equipment that had been set up inside.
"I know it all looks a bit intimidating right now," Leo said, nudging Ezra in the back, "but we're going to be spending some time in here over the next few months so you might as well get acquainted with everything." Leo held up the hospital gown he'd included in his equipment list until Ezra was more comfortable with being naked. "Why don't you change into this then hop into the chair while I get set up for the ultrasound?"
Leo brought the machine out of its corner and plugged it in near the examination chair. While it was starting up, he rolled a condom onto the probe; he'd opted for an endorectal transducer rather than the more conventional convex type he usually used at work. The probe—of which Leo had different sizes—was about the same width as the plug that Ezra had been wearing, but it would be going a little deeper than the plug.
"I thought an ultrasound was the thing that goes on your stomach," Ezra said as he gave the probe an apprehensive look.
"Abdominal ultrasounds are the most common kind, yes, but given that your situation is not the common kind, it stands to reason that we must also use the less usual methods when it comes to your care. This will give us the clearest image, I assure you. And it won't hurt at all. You'll only feel a little discomfort, if any. Feet in the stirrups, please."
Ezra reluctantly obeyed, only to flinch when Leo began to do up the restraints around his arms and legs.
"No need to make a fuss," Leo scolded. "This is just to make sure you don't move and ruin the image."
The restraints were unnecessary since Ezra was likely as capable of holding still as Leo was of performing this ultrasound abdominally, but the sight of Ezra strapped down and splayed open was one to behold. Leo had to resist the urge to finger Ezra's hole as he lubed up the probe; he would get a better reaction this way.
"This might be a little cold," was all he said before pushing the probe in all the way.
"Aah!" Ezra cried out as he tugged at the restraints, instinctively trying to get away from the sudden intrusion. His hole pulsed around the probe, alternating between clenching down on it and trying to push it out.
"Shh, hold still," Leo said with his free hand on Ezra's stomach as he moved the probe around perhaps a little more aggressively than he needed to as he searched for the fetus. Or, rather, the fetuses. It was something Leo had suspected when Ezra had started showing so early, and it was pleasing to see that he'd been right. "Congratulations, you're having twins."
The revelation of the twins seemed to affect Ezra more than the discovery that he was pregnant. Leo printed out the sonogram and let Ezra hold it as he cleaned the probe and put away the ultrasound machine.
"Now that we know what we're working with, I'll be able to draw up a schedule for you: sleep, nutrition, exercise, that sort of thing," Leo said. "You want the best for your babies after all, don't you?"
"Uh, yeah," Ezra said distractedly. He still hadn't taken his eyes off the sonogram despite there only being two vaguely bean-shaped dark spots to look at.
"We'll do an ultrasound every day just to make sure things are progressing smoothly, and I'll see if I can get a better picture for you. At about nine weeks in, you should be able to see the beginnings of the arms and legs if we can get the babies to cooperate."
A daily ultrasound hadn't been part of Leo's plan, but if more exposure to the fetuses made Ezra more invested in the pregnancy, it would make a fine addition to their daily schedule. Not to mention the added benefit of acclimating Ezra to being probed and examined.
"Yeah, that'd be nice."
-
The daily ultrasounds truly had a profound impact on Ezra. Leo had been prepared to keep him drugged for the first few weeks—or months, even, if it came to that—to ensure his compliance, but now, all Leo needed to do when Ezra expressed reluctance or discomfort was to remind him that this was what was best for the babies, which they'd discovered were a boy and a girl. Leo had even been able to remove the chastity belt, assured that the cock cage and plug Ezra wore at all times would stay on without it.
Something that Leo had expected to need a few weeks to work up to was introducing Ezra to prostate milking. Instead, all he had to do was come up with a story about how having a build-up of fluid in the prostate gland could cause a hormone imbalance, and Ezra was getting in the chair and spreading his legs.
"First, I'm going to insert this speculum to keep your hole nice and open," Leo explained as he slid the speculum into Ezra's hole. He opened it until it was a little wider than the plug Ezra had been wearing, extracting a whine from Ezra up above. "Now I'm going to run this wand across your prostate gland until it's been drained. All you need to do is relax."
Leo could tell he'd found Ezra's prostate when Ezra gasped and jerked in the restraints, the rim of his hole fluttering as it tried to close around the speculum. Leo continued rubbing the wand back and forth over the same spot as Ezra's hips thrust up as much as they could to meet him, chasing the pleasure that had been denied to his locked cock.
"I—I'm going to—" Ezra eventually gasped.
"It's alright, just let it out," Leo said encouragingly.
Milky fluid spurted out from Ezra's cock in a steady stream that Leo caught with a waiting bowl. When the stream stopped, Ezra's muscles were still tense with expectation and there was a betrayed look on his face as he seemed to realise he'd just ejaculated without orgasming.
"Perfect," Leo said, pretending not to notice. "Everything is well within the expected parameters." He removed the speculum and replaced it with a plug that was slightly larger than the one Ezra had been wearing, not that Ezra would notice right now. "How are you feeling?" Leo asked as he began to release the restraints.
Ezra scrunched up his face. "Like…like I just came, but didn't?"
Leo patted Ezra's thigh. "That's perfectly normal. The feeling will pass."
"Will we…have to do this regularly?" The look on Ezra's face clearly said he was hoping the answer was no.
"Once a week, for now. We might have to increase the frequency later on as the babies get larger and put more pressure on your prostate."
Ezra's face fell.
"It's for the good of the babies," Leo reminded him.
"Yes, of course."
-
Four months into Ezra's pregnancy, his belly had rounded out beautifully and no longer fit into even his loosest sweatpants without them sitting dangerously low on his hips.
"This is getting rather ridiculous, don't you think?" Leo said as he watched Ezra struggle to hold a plate in one hand while his other clutched at the waistband of his pants. "You can lose the pants, son, there's nothing there I don't see every day anyway."
"I know that," Ezra mumbled, finally making it to the table and setting down his plate. "It's just…weird, I guess."
"It's up to you. You can always try it for a day and see how it feels. Or I can buy you a maternity dress if you're feeling shy."
That immediately elicited a scowl. "I'm not shy."
As if to prove his point, the pants were gone before noon.
-
Seven months in, Ezra had grown so large that he couldn't walk normally anymore. His huge belly jutted out obscenely on his slight frame, and he had to support it with one hand as he waddled around the house so it wouldn't sway and put even more pressure on the taut skin of his abdomen.
Ezra hadn't gone back to wearing pants and had given up on shirts as well just a few weeks ago, giving Leo a full view of his heavily pregnant body at all hours of the day. His caged cock looked tiny under the swell of his belly; the cage came off under close supervision only once every two weeks for a thorough cleaning, and every time Leo put it back on, he adjusted it to be a little tighter.
"Hm," Leo said during the next ultrasound.
"What is it?" Ezra was immediately alert. "Is there something wrong with the babies?"
All the ultrasounds up to this point had been routine, with Leo keeping Ezra updated on the development of the fetuses and printing weekly sonograms to put up on the wall of the study, but it was time to start the next phase of Leo's plan.
"Well, as I'm sure you're able to deduce, twins grow at the same rate as any other babies, but there being two of them, the womb starts getting snug a little earlier, and they start looking for a way out. A premature birth will carry all sorts of risks for both you and the babies, so we'll have to do our best to avoid that."
"What can we do?" Ezra asked, his hands holding his belly protectively; Leo only strapped down his legs for examinations now after it became clear Ezra wasn't going to struggle.
"I'm going to prescribe you an extra four hours of bed rest every day on top of the ten hours of sleep you're currently getting. And you'll only be permitted light physical activity, so nothing strenuous and nothing involving lifting or bending over. It might get a little boring, but the less stress you put on the babies the less likely they'll be to come out early. That being said, this is the perfect time to start preparing for the birth."
That threw Ezra off. "Th-the birth? I thought—"
Natural births were rare amongst those who conceived anally, most of them preferring the easier and less risky route of a caesarean, but it was definitely possible and perfectly safe with enough preparation. A natural birth was also easier to facilitate at home, and it wasn't like Leo was going to deny himself the chance to watch Ezra give birth.
"Barring medical complications, a natural birth is best," Leo said. "Don't worry, I've assisted in hundreds of them. You're in good hands."
Over the last four months, Leo had gradually increased the width and length of the plugs that Ezra wore 24/7. They worked perfectly to keep his hole stretched and ready to receive the thickest ultrasound probe without further preparation and the speculum that Leo used for Ezra's prostate milkings, but it was time to take things a step further.
Leo started with the speculum since Ezra was already used to it, turning the knob a few extra rotations.
"Deep breaths now," Leo said as Ezra groaned in discomfort. "Up to this point we've only been stretching your anal canal and the lower part of your rectum, but we're going to have to get deeper than that to prepare you for the birth."
Leo opened the second drawer of the rolling cabinet next to him and selected and lubed up a dildo that would fit through the opening created by the speculum. It wasn't very thick, but it was more than twice as long as Ezra's usual plugs and would reach deeper inside him than even the ultrasound probe usually went.
"Breathe in," Leo prompted, waiting until Ezra did as he was instructed. "Breathe out, and relax the lower half of your body."
Leo fed the dildo through the open speculum, applying more pressure when he felt a slight resistance. Ezra cried out and tried to clench down as the dildo worked its way into his sigmoid colon, but the speculum held firm. Leo kept pushing until the flared base of the dildo was flush against Ezra's ass.
"Does that feel okay?" Leo asked.
"Yeah," Ezra said in a strangled voice. "Just really…full."
"You're doing great. Keep breathing."
Leo pulled the dildo out just a little bit before pushing it back in, continuing with the shallow thrusts until Ezra had relaxed then increasing the depth until he was properly fucking Ezra on the dildo. Ezra was taking it well, breathing hard with the thrusts and clutching his belly with his hands but not fighting it like he would have a few months ago.
Leo kept fucking Ezra with the dildo for about fifteen minutes before withdrawing it entirely.
"You did well," he said as he removed the speculum as well, only closing it slightly before pulling it out. "We'll add this to our daily routine." Leo made a mental note to purchase a fucking machine; he wanted to work Ezra up to longer sessions, but it was tiring to sit there working the dildo by hand. "I'm also going to switch you to wearing dildos instead of plugs now so that your entire birth canal remains stretched."
Leo affixed the base of the dildo to a harness that would hold it in Ezra's ass without the need for a narrow neck that wouldn't stretch his rim. He reapplied lube to the dildo, this time using lube laced with progesterone to help prevent a premature birth; twins were usually born by 38 weeks, but Leo wanted Ezra to make it to at least 40, and he was going to do everything he could to help that.
-
Three weeks later, Ezra had worked his way through the 'normal' sized dildos, and his hole readily accepted four of Leo's fingers during his examinations. His hole had a permanent gape now, hanging slightly open even when there was nothing in it, and his rim was soft and malleable under Leo's fingers.
"We're going to try something a little different today," Leo said as he pulled on a glove. He usually just lubed up a few fingers, but today he poured the lube over his whole hand. "We've been stretching your birth canal for a few weeks now and I'd like to conduct an internal examination to make sure everything is in order. I need to check the entire channel, so I'll be going deeper than I usually do during these exams."
"Okay," Ezra said, clearly having no idea what Leo was intending. Well, he'd find out soon enough.
Leo began by fingering Ezra's hole like he usually did, starting with three fingers that quickly became four. He kept a close eye on Ezra's face as he tucked his thumb in alongside his fingers, and could see the moment Ezra realised what was happening.
"Is that—oh!"
Leo didn't give Ezra time to think about it before pushing the widest part of his hand past Ezra's rim.
"Don't forget to breathe," Leo reminded him. "I'm going to go further in now."
The hardest part done, Leo's wrist and forearm sank easily into Ezra's hole. He kept going until his fingertips brushed against Ezra's cervix, at which point he started probing Ezra's walls with his fingers.
Ezra was struggling to steady his breathing, little whimpers escaping between each breath as his eyes watered from the stretch.
"Everything feels alright to me," Leo said as he pulled his arm out with a wet squelch. He would have loved to fist Ezra properly, but he didn't want to upset their routine with Ezra looking on the verge of breaking.
The dildo he chose for today was just a little thinner than his arm, but still a considerable step up from the previous one. Leo attached it to the fucking machine and inserted half its length into Ezra's hole before turning the machine on. It hadn't even cycled through one complete thrust before Ezra burst into tears.
"What's wrong?" Leo asked as he rested his hand atop Ezra's huge, tight belly. He could feel it moving with the motion of the dildo. "Does it hurt?"
Ezra shook his head. "It's too much," he said between sniffles. "I can't do it."
"I know it's hard, but you're doing wonderfully."
"It's too much," Ezra repeated.
"You just need some time to get used to it." Leo rubbed Ezra's belly. "We'll only do a half-hour session today, alright?"
The crying tapered off after a few minutes, but Ezra remained uncomfortable throughout the fucking session instead of gradually relaxing into it like he usually did. When Leo locked the dildo in and helped Ezra stand up, he burst into a fresh bout of tears.
"I can't," he said, holding on to Leo for support.
"You can," Leo reassured him. "Come on, let's get you in bed."
Ezra took one inching step at a time, one arm around Leo's shoulders and the other supporting his bulging belly. He looked exhausted by the time Leo laid him down in his bed.
"Please take it out," Ezra pleaded.
"You know I can't do that, we've got a schedule to follow. If we don't keep to it, the birth will be very dangerous for you."
"But it hurts."
"I'll get you some painkillers to help with the soreness."
Leo returned with two tablets and a glass of water to find Ezra trying to undo the harness.
"Hey!" Leo said sternly. "None of that now. You know this is for the good of you and the babies. Take the pills and get some rest."
Leo held Ezra's head up so he could swallow the pills without sitting up, then climbed into Ezra's bed behind him.
"What are you doing?" Ezra asked.
"Making sure you rest like I told you to, and that you keep your hands away from the harness. Don't make me have to start locking you in again like I can't trust you."
Ezra made a noise of displeasure but calmed down once Leo took one of Ezra's hands and placed it on his belly.
"Here," Leo said, "remember that you're doing this for them."
Leo took his own hand off Ezra's to stroke the underside of Ezra's hugely swollen belly. He was so big now that Leo couldn't reach the other side of his belly, and he was still going to get bigger. Leo continued to stroke Ezra's belly until he fell asleep.
-
Ezra moved into the master bedroom after that. He was still having trouble adjusting to the dildo, and Leo preferred to have Ezra where he could see him. Not to mention there was the added bonus of being able to cradle Ezra's belly and run his hands over it during the night.
When Leo changed out the dildo for a thicker one the following week, Ezra's pleas to have the dildo taken out reignited with a fervour. Leo had to put a lock on the harness to prevent Ezra taking it off when he wasn't looking, and he confined Ezra to bed rest for all hours of the day save for his morning enema and a slow, closely-monitored walk on the treadmill every day to keep the muscles in his legs from atrophying too much. A catheter and collection bag by the bed meant that Ezra didn't have to get out of bed to use the toilet either.
Ezra had initially chafed at the enforced bed rest, but as his belly continued to grow until it was so large he had difficulty sitting up on his own and his hole was stretched to its limits, he ended up spending the whole day sleeping—or trying to—anyway.
Leo kept the room bright during the day with the justification of Ezra needing the Vitamin D—which had the side effect of being true—so Ezra was usually exhausted when night fell. Leo would lie next to him and listen until his breathing became slow and deep, then he would unlock Ezra's harness and ease the dildo out. Early on, when Leo wasn't sure how deeply Ezra was asleep, he would finger Ezra's hole while jerking himself off. After more experimentation and paying close attention to Ezra's sleep patterns, Leo had eventually been able to slip his cock into Ezra's well-stretched hole and bring himself to completion without Ezra ever stirring.
He'd done it again almost every night since then, holding Ezra close with a hand on his belly. Leo was going to miss this once Ezra gave birth. Maybe he could find an excuse to keep Ezra permanently plugged with a dildo large enough to visibly distend his belly. Leo wouldn't be able to fuck Ezra with it in like he could now, but the sight of Ezra aching and swollen would be enough for Leo to get off on.
-
When the 40-week mark finally arrived, Ezra was so heavily pregnant that turning over in bed was about the maximum range of motion he had without assistance. Nestled deep in his hole was the largest dildo Leo had bought in preparation for this; not the largest dildo that was currently in the house, but Leo was saving the others for when he didn't have the wellbeing of two unborn babies to think about.
Leo helped Ezra make the slow, arduous walk down the hall to the study and into the examination chair where he strapped down Ezra's arms this time as well as his legs. Leo had given Ezra an enema the night before instead of his usual morning enema so that Leo could apply a prostaglandin insert afterwards to initiate the dilation of Ezra's cervix.
Ezra's hole was so loose from the constant stretching that Leo's hand didn't meet any resistance when he pushed in to check how much Ezra's cervix had dilated. Ezra had awoken earlier in the morning to complain of mild contractions, and Leo was pleased to find that his cervix was in fact several centimetres more dilated than it had been last night.
"We're off to a good start," Leo said as he brought the IV stand next to the chair. "I'm going to give you some pitocin to strengthen the contractions, then we should be well underway."
While waiting for the pitocin to kick in, Leo reinserted the dildo and locked it in, then helped Ezra out of the chair.
"The best thing you can do now is stay active," Leo said, "so we're going to go for a nice, slow walk around the house."
After making a lap of the house with Ezra struggling with the weight of his belly, the stretch of the dildo, and the increasing contractions, Leo set him back down in bed.
"Just for half an hour, then we've got to get you moving again," Leo said as he arranged the pillows around Ezra, ensuring the tube from the IV wouldn't get tangled.
"How much longer until the babies are born?" Ezra asked, breathless from the exertion.
"Eager to have them in your arms, are you?" Leo said with a laugh. "Well you'll have to be patient a little longer, the timeframe is anywhere from a few hours to over a day."
"A day?"
"Had a patient go to two days once, but that's rather rare so you don't need to worry about it, especially not when we've just started. Now, try to get some rest."
In the end, it only took four hours for Ezra's contractions to start coming two to three minutes apart. Leo had continued to rouse Ezra every half an hour and take him for a walk around the house, and as a result, Ezra was exhausted by the time Leo got him back into the chair in the study.
Leo held Ezra's hole open with a speculum, wide enough that he could easily slip his hand in to confirm that Ezra's cervix had fully dilated. It also gave him an unobstructed view down Ezra's birth canal once he brought over a light and angled the chair backwards until Ezra was lying almost flat on his back. It would make it a little harder to push the babies out without the assistance of gravity, but Ezra was surely up to the task.
It was another half an hour before Ezra felt the urge to push. The contractions were stronger and less than two minutes apart now, and with each one Ezra would moan in pain first from the contraction itself then from his hole clenching down on the speculum. Leo left the speculum in and allowed it to fall out on its own as Ezra began to push. He replaced it with his hand to monitor the progress of the birth, and it wasn't too long before he could feel the first baby's head breaching Ezra's cervix.
"Oh dear," Leo said, making a show of looking at the fetal heart rate monitor output.
"What is it?" Ezra panted, the restraints preventing him sitting up to look at the screen.
"The birth is progressing a little too quickly. I'm going to need you to stop pushing until the baby settles down."
"But it's already coming out!"
"I'll help you hold it in. Deep breaths, and remember not to push."
Leo kept his hand just outside of Ezra's cervix, preventing the baby from progressing any further. The contractions continued coming, and when they tried to move the baby further down the birth canal even without Ezra pushing, Leo would apply just enough pressure to keep the baby in place. Ezra's breathing was ragged as he tried to suck in deep breaths as instructed, clearly in pain from having his cervix stretched thin around the baby's head.
After about twenty minutes, Leo grew tired of the ruse and allowed Ezra to proceed with the birth. He was so exhausted at this point that pushing didn't do much, but since the baby had already crowned, it didn't take long for it to be born.
The first one was the girl, letting out a hearty cry the moment she emerged. Once her umbilical cord had been clamped and cut, Leo brought her over to the examination table to weigh her and check her vitals, entering everything into a chart. He then cleaned her off and swaddled her in a blanket, placing her in one of the bassinets Ezra had picked out in time for the birth of her brother.
The boy was delivered quickly and similarly given a clean bill of health. This one Leo gave to Ezra to hold while he prepared bottles for the twins since there was no reason Ezra couldn't feed one of them while they waited for the placentas to be delivered.
With both babies born, the swell of Ezra's belly was already greatly reduced, and in several weeks it would no longer be apparent at a casual glance that he'd ever been pregnant. Hopefully that wouldn't last for very long.