Due Date

Three days later, Julia was giving birth to her first son. She was fixated on the life about to emerge from her, and not the man beside her that had created it. They had sex more frequently, but it was still more about getting by and wasting time than a real relationship. But this, the life about to emerge -- that was real.

A few minutes later, she pushed hard one last time, her entire body feeling as if it would implode, as she pushed out a healthy son -- which she promptly named Thomas, after her ex-husband.