"PUSH!" SAID DR. RAE DUPREY, TO HER PATIENT, AN-<br >gel Lloyd.<br > "Just take it out--take it out!" Angel screamed.<br > "Hunker down now, honey," said Angel s husband, Max.<br > "You hunker down if you think it s so easy, Mr. Lamaze!"<br > Rae chuckled as she sat on a stool between Angel s pale thighs.<br >She moved in closer, using sterile gauze to wipe flecks of blood from<br >Angel s perineum. The baby was crowning beautifully. Another con-<br >traction was starting.<br > "That s right, just ease it on out, nice and slow now," she coaxed.<br > "Aaiieee!" Angel shouted. "Please, Rae, pull it out! Don t just<br >sit there! Give me a cesarean--do something!"<br > "I told you to have that epidural, honey," Max said, wiping his<br >wet brow.<br > "Shut up. And stop calling me honey!"<br > But then the back of the baby s head emerged, covered with wet<br >black hair; and as the neck extended upward, out came a pink and<br >wrinkly face.<br > Rae stared back at the two large slate-blue eyes that gazed ques-<br >tioningly up at her. With the tip of her gloved finger, she touched<br >the tip of the baby s nose. Then she cleaned out both nose and mouth<br >with a tiny blue suction bulb. "Rough trip, eh?" she said to the little<br >face.<br > Thirty minutes later, Rae had showered and wrapped a towel<br >around herself. She was a petite woman, barely five feet three, 105<br >pounds, with the lithe body of a dancer. Her light brown eyes, spaced<br >widely apart and almond shaped like a Serengeti leopard s, stared<br ><br >
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