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Kristina wailed hopelessly. She’d been in labor with her quintuplets for twelve hours and was suffering the agony of her labor pains. She was totally nude on her bed, her knees bent and her feet planted on the mattress, her legs spread both to make room for the nurses checking her progress and to ease some of the incredible pressure she felt inside her. The babies were so low that it felt like they were going to start popping out of her at any moment, and yet she never reached a point where she was ready to get them out. “Ohhhhh…” she moaned into the air, gripping the white bed sheets until her knuckles paled. Her belly tensed up again, becoming so tight that she could make out the definite outlines of her five babies inside her, their bodies and heads forming distinct infant-shaped bulges on her oversized belly. “When…when am I gonna be able to push?!” The contraction reached its peak and she threw her head back on the pillow, howling into the air in pain. The babies squirmed