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tony: guys look at my baby

tony: look what she did today

tony: *photo attachment*

tony: *photo attachment*

tony: *photo attachment*

rhodey: dude you’re in the wrong chat again, man

natasha: tony we talked about this

natasha: all baby pics need to be in the other thread now

steve: we need to keep this space baby-free so we don’t get distracted all the time

tony: oh right sorry

-- avengers group chat: baby pics edition --

tony: guys look at my baby

tony: look what she did today

tony: *photo attachment*

tony: *photo attachment*

tony: *photo attachment*

steve: aww!!

steve: wow look at her!

natasha: she’s ADORABLE

rhodey: yeah that’s my goddaughter!!

peter: omg when can i babysit again?!!?

rhodey: do you have more pictures????

rhodey: send them over

tony: *photo attachment*

tony: *photo attachment*

tony: *video attachment*

tony: *video attachment*

Oh absolutely. Tony documents everything.

He makes Pepper pose for weekly baby bump pictures. He doesn’t share them publicly every week, but he’d post maybe every month or so. And for week 40 he’ll post a pic to his social media and caption it like, “About to pop!” because he’s just so excited that they’re gonna get to meet their baby soon.

Tony posts pictures and videos from the gender reveal party that they had and ask followers for name suggestions (he and Pepper already have a name picked out, but it’s fun to see what people would suggest). He plans the baby shower with Natasha because she’s the only other person who Pepper would trust to be organized enough to make it happen.

When they go shopping for the baby’s room, he’s tempted to Instagram Live the whole experience but Pepper stops him. He does vlog parts of it though and posts those videos to his IGTV later.

He becomes obsessed with baby shoes. Tony loves shoes. Pepper loves shoes. So their baby’s gonna love shoes. He buys every pair he comes across and Pepper thinks it’s ridiculous because their baby is going to grow out of them so quickly. But they’re just so adorable and Tony can’t help himself. He builds a shoe closet for the baby right next to Pepper’s and he takes a picture to post on Instagram with the caption, “Catching up to mommy already.”

Honestly, Peter wouldn’t even bother hiding his identity from her. Pretty much everyone important knows who he is – May, Tony, Pepper, Happy, Ned, the other superheroes. At one point he also tells MJ because she’s too smart for him to can’t hide anything from her anyway.

Peter doesn’t care that Morgan knows. When he finds out that Pepper’s had the baby, he wants to get to the hospital as fast as possible so he doesn’t take the subway, doesn’t take a taxi or Uber. He changes into his suit and web swings his way over from Queens to Manhattan. Karen gets Pepper’s room number for him and he slips in through the window. Tony gets a picture of Peter holding Morgan for the first time while he’s still in his spider suit.

So no secret is ever kept from Morgan. She grows up knowing exactly who Spider-Man is. Except, because it never was considered a secret for her, and everyone she knows also knows who Peter is, and most of the other heroes are open about their identities, Morgan’s…not exactly careful about Peter’s alter ego either.

One day when she’s about four, Tony and Peter take her out to lunch at a cute diner near where Peter lives. There’s a TV by the counter and there’s a news report playing about Spider-Man saving civilians from the subway that suddenly caught fire the day before. She sees the screen and she goes, “Petey!! You’re on the TV!!”

Tony and Peter are like, ¿qué? Then they look at the screen and, yup, there Peter is, in his spider suit, on the news. Thankfully, there aren’t too many people in the diner at the moment and their table is far enough from the other patrons that no one heard Morgan’s outburst.

That’s the day Morgan learns what a secret is, and why sometimes, things need to be hidden from other people. Tony and Peter teach her that honesty is always the best policy, especially when you’re with family and close friends. But sometimes, you need secrets to protect yourself.

“Daddy,” Morgan says. “I can always tell you everything though right? You’ll protect me.”

oh my god yes

tony reads all the parenting books. like. all of them. even the weird ones. you know how chris traeger was when ann was pregnant in parks and rec? that’s tony. he reads everything he can get his hands on. he downloads all the books onto his starkpad and powers through them, but there’s so much conflicting information that when morgan’s actually born and she won’t go to sleep and he doesn’t know what to do, he’s just like, “oh shoot, WHICH BOOK DO I TRUST??” and he ends up asking friday what to do instead.

he gains a lot of sympathy weight. whenever pepper’s craving something, he’ll eat it right along with her so she doesn’t feel bad about wanting to eat so much. and so tony gains maybe 20 pounds?? by the end of the pregnancy. and good thing his armors are now nanotech because can you imagine having to suit up for an emergency and then realizing that he can’t fit because his ass is even thicker than usual? the horror.

pepper’s a beast and she still keeps up a regular workout schedule throughout her pregnancy. she’s lifting weights all the way up until she hits her third trimester, and even then she continues to do cardio four times a week. her belly is so small it doesn’t become obvious until her sixth month.

pepper has every intention of taking only the 10 weeks of state-sanctioned maternity leave and then going back to SI as soon as possible, but tony convinces her to take a full year – which is their policy at SI anyway – and to just work from home if she really needs to.

tony’s super attentive to pepper’s needs and gets her everything she asks for. after a little while he starts anticipating what she’ll say or need, and just does the thing without her having to ask.

it actually becomes a tiny bit overbearing sometimes but he’s trying his best and pepper really appreciates it.

pepper eats lots and lots and lots of ice cream during her pregnancy. it’s a good thing they always get stark raving hazelnut delivered in bulk.

tony takes pepper on a babymoon and they vacation in cape cod before she gets too big to travel anywhere. they were going to spend two full weeks there, but by the 10th day pepper starts feeling nauseous at the smell of seafood so they cut their trip short. but they still have a really good time and she tells tony how much she loves how thoughtful he is.

pepper goes into labor on a lazy thursday morning while she and tony are just relaxing in the den. tony’s telling her a funny story and she laughs so hard, she thinks she’s peed herself. turns out her water just broke, and the day goes from chill to hectic as tony gets all manic and tries to remember what they need to do, where they put the bag, who they need to call, etc. pepper has to calm him down while friday tells them where to go and calls happy to drive them to the hospital.

Hmm I don’t think Tony figures it out before Pepper. Like yeah, he pays a lot of attention to her, but still, women know their own bodies pretty well, and Pepper’s smart and in tune with herself, so she especially would know that something’s up pretty quickly.

I’d like to think that one day not too long after they’re married, Pepper wakes up and has to run to the bathroom to throw up. It’s her first time experiencing morning sickness and Tony’s there hold her hair back. Except they don’t think it’s anything life-changing. Pepper says, “It might be the seafood I had yesterday at my lunch meeting.” And they figure, yeah maybe that’s it. They don’t think about it again.

Except she just keeps throwing up for over a week, and food poisoning just doesn’t last that long. Tony’s not always there in the mornings because he sometimes works overnight in the workshop, so he doesn’t know that Pepper’s been feeling sick for so long. But like. She’s not really feeling sick? Just nauseous. Now that she thinks back, there hadn’t been any other symptoms of food poisoning.

So Pepper asks Friday to scan her, check her vitals, see what the hell is up with her. Friday does, and she tells Pepper that it would be in her best interest to take a pregnancy test. She also takes it upon herself to make an appointment with an OBGYN.

Pepper gets her assistant to buy a few tests for her and pretty much all of them confirm that she’s pregnant. Her doctor’s appointment is the next day, and she debates whether to tell Tony now, or to wait until afterwards.

She ends up telling Tony when they’re getting ready for bed that night.

“I was wondering – are you free tomorrow?”

“Sure, I can move some things around. What’s up?”

“I thought you might want to come with me to my doctor’s appointment tomorrow.” Pepper hands Tony one of the pregnancy sticks. “So we can get a first glimpse of our baby together.”

Tony beams and, with his voice full of awe, asks, “Really?”

“Yes, really.”

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Pepper would be a great mother. She’s busy as CEO of a global corporation, yes, but after having Morgan she makes a few changes to her schedule and lifestyle so that she’s spending enough quality time with her daughter.

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When Morgan’s still a toddler, Pepper spends every morning with her before going to work. She’s always been an early riser so it’s never a problem, and she’ll stay with Morgan until she has to leave at 8:30 to get to the office. If she doesn’t have any lunch meetings, Pepper heads home for lunch so she can see her daughter more. Unfortunately being a CEO means that she generally has to stay long after 5pm everyday, but she makes it a point to get home in time for dinner so she can give Morgan her bath before Tony rocks the baby to sleep.

Once Morgan’s old enough to for school, Pepper sends a company-wide notice informing her employees of her new schedule. As always, she’s an early riser, but the difference is that once Morgan is out the door with Happy at 7 to get to school, Pepper leaves home to get to the office as well. She doesn’t want her daughter growing up with memories of an absent mother, so Pepper changes her office hours to 7:30 to 3:30, so she can get home and help with homework or projects. She sets a hard limit of three dinner meetings per month so they can have quality family time in the evenings.

Tony’s become a stay-at-home dad, so naturally Morgan spends a lot of time with her dad. But it’s never a competition between Pepper and Tony on who’s the better parent. They have different responsibilities and they work together to make sure Morgan grows up in the best environment possible. While Tony does a lot of the domestic stuff, like packing Morgan’s lunches and picking her up from school, Pepper also clears her schedule whenever important school events come up. She and Tony take turns going to parent/teacher conferences and Pepper’s sure to never miss a soccer game or piano recital unless there are extenuating circumstances where she has to be halfway across the globe to sort out a crisis.

Morgan spends a lot of time with Tony in the lab. He teaches her science and engineering, and they often work on projects together with Peter as well. But Morgan also gets a lot of quality girl time with Pepper. Tony is open-minded and always reminds Morgan that he’s there if she wants to talk about anything, but he’s still her dad and sometimes there are just some things you don’t talk about with your dad, no matter how cool he is.

Pepper and Morgan have mother/daughter dates at least twice a month. They spend a Saturday together going shopping, visiting cute cafes, and they talk about everything, especially the things that Morgan doesn’t know how to talk to Tony about. Pepper gives Morgan advice on how to make friends, how to deal with crushes, and reassures her daughter whenever she’s feeling overwhelmed with schoolwork or the media limelight that’s been on her since the day she was born.

Tony teaches Morgan how to be aloof in front of the cameras, but Pepper teaches her how to make the media work in her favor.

Honestly this is so cute and perfect I don’t even need to add anything else to it.

But you know, Tony probably didn’t even accidentally show up to an Avengers meeting with the ⭐️💖✨Daddy✨💖⭐️ badge. He’s damn proud of his daughter’s work, okay? And “Dad” is the best thing he’s ever been called. He’s gonna wear that badge EVERYWHERE for the rest of the day and if anyone says shit he’ll repulsor their ass.