All she knew for certain was that there was a lot more inside that woman than a [just delivered] three-pound infant. And that any moment now, her patient was going to start to bleed.

But when Lacy reached up to grab the patient's belly and press down on the uterus, she froze. "Did anyone tell you you were having twins?"

The father went ashen. "There's two in there?"

Lacy grinned. Twins, she could handle. Twins — well, that was a bonus, not some horrible medical disaster. "Well. Only one now."

The man crouched down beside his wife and kissed her forehead, delighted. "Did you hear that, Terri? Twins."

His wife did not take her eyes off her tiny newborn daughter. "That's nice," she said calmly. "But I'm not pushing a second one out."