Jayyy!! Sweet, slutty in the AM.
Without giving BL spoilers, or maybe you won't? Idk šš not *cough* fishing or anything *cough*
Can I please have š for Javier??? I'm curious...
Javiears pregnancy headcanons? You got it, babe!
Quick and obvious disclaimer to treat all of these as if they are a Better Love AU, at least until I tell you otherwise. š
Any baby that these two have would be a total surprise. Ears never wanted kids, and Javi has never thought long enough about it to decide how he feels about a family. Heās always assumed that was never in the cards for him.
Once the initial shock wears off - and thatās gonna take quite a while for both of them - Javi and Ears both jump feet first into the parenting thing. They each harbor some intense opinions about what a kid should and shouldnāt have to put up with, and there are lots of deep conversations that Last into the early morning hours. They nail down the important stuff pretty early, decide that theyāll figure out the rest with time, and discover a whole lot more about one another in the process.
Earsā body hates being pregnant. She doesnāt realize it, but sheās got her Ashkenazi ancestry to thank for this. Ears is sick as dog snot clear through her first trimester and well into her second, exhausted and achy and throwing the fuck up. She gets awful migraines, too. There are days when Javi is convinced that carrying this baby is going to kill her, and he worries a lot.
Ears handles all of this as stoically as she can. Sheās miserable, but sheās not about to complain and make Javi feel even worse.
Speaking of Javi, that protective streak heās got goes into overdrive the instant Ears tells him about the baby. Ears has got to constantly remind him that sheās pregnant, not dying, and Javi good god, please just let me do things, okay??
That being said, it takes Javi a little while to connect the idea of Ears being pregnant to Ears carrying his baby. Itās all very abstract to him, to the point that on Earsā worst days, Javi almost feels a little resentful.
That all changes at Earsā sixteen week appointment. Sheās just starting to feel like a human again, and this time, Javi is allowed to go back with her.
Oh my god, you guys, when Javier PeƱa sees that blurry, black and white, tiny little baby on the ultrasound screen... yall, his entire world shifts.
Ears notices instantly. Itās kind of hard not to, given how tightly Javi is suddenly gripping her hand. He glances over at him to find his eyes glued to the screen, silent tears rolling down his cheeks. It takes her aback a little. āYou okay?ā she asks quietly, and Javi nods, drags his eyes away from the ultrasound screen and gives her a soft, wet smile, and something slots into place for Ears, too.
Javi quits smoking cold turkey that day. Seeing his tiny little daughter for the first time put a lot of things into perspective, and Javi decides then and there that he wants to be there for her as long as possible.
The first three weeks are miserable. Javi does his best to get out of the house when heās feeling tetchy (which is always), and Ears does her best to be understanding, but they get into more than a few little spats.
The makeup sex is š„š„š„, though.
Ears is not a big girl. When she starts to show, she shows fast, and Javi swears he can see her body change every day. Ears is pretty indifferent. Sheās not self conscious - Ears finds pregnancy to be inconvenient, more than anything.
Javier PeƱa has never seen anything as beautiful as Hannah Aarons carrying his child.
Javi fucking loves it. Thereās something primal about running his hand over the gentle swell of Earsā belly and knowing that itās his daughter thatās growing there. Heās not one to talk to the bump, but Javi can hardly stop himself from touching it. All the fucking time. Ears will sometimes playfully shoo him away. āHands to yourself, you animal. Iām trying to nap!ā
Seriously, their sex life doesnāt suffer at all. It doesnāt help that Ears refuses to buy maternity clothes. Sheād much rather lounge around in Javiās t-shirts and his old sweats, something that makes Javiās cave man brain damn near implode every single time he sees it.
Ugh, and heās sweet to her. Observant and affectionate and accommodating of absolutely everything. Cravings? Tell me what you want, babe, Iāll get three. Foot massage? Come here, mi reina, let me make it better. Yawning through dinner? Go get in bed, Ears, Iāve got dishes tonight.
Javi starts noticing Earsā puffy feet somewhere around the 28th week or so. Ears swears they donāt hurt, exactly, so they both write it off as one of those weird pregnancy things.
Itās not. Ears has severe pre-eclampsia. Javi only finds this out after Ears gets a migraine so bad that she canāt see straight. Javi carries her to the car and forces her to go to the hospital. Theyāre there for all of five minutes when the doctor on call deems Earsā blood pressure to be high enough to constitute a medical emergency, and Javiās world is turned upside down again when he hears the word āc-section.ā
Ears is only 33 weeks pregnant.
Less than an hour later, Javi is holding his baby girl. Sheās tiny, the tiniest little human that Javi has ever seen, but sheās got a hell of a set of lungs on her, and Javi has never been so relieved, so stunned, so riveted, or so enraptured by anything in his entire life.
Oh, shit, heās crying again.
Sheās absolutely perfect. Off her oxygen within two days, taking feedings like a champ, and obliterating every goal her pediatrician sets for her.
Javi is so fucking proud when his girl is discharged a full week earlier than the doctors anticipated. Sheās still a little small, but growing like a weed, and Javi just knows that between her and her mom, heās gonna have his hands full.
Ears is fine, just a little sore. There are no long term complications from pre-eclampsia, so as soon as sheās up and sort of moving, Ears in full mom mode.
Ears loves being a mom, but she and Javi are in full agreement on this - one and done.