With her at-home kit, Princess Cadance did not need to return to the doctor's office except for a monthly check-up on her 'pregnancy'. Usually, the expectant father, Shining Armor, was in company. It was the first time that Dr. Dova had met the stallion who so handily captured the princess's heart. He was entirely unimpressed with the captain.

It had been eight months since she'd first gotten her IUD. Shining lent a hoof as he helped her onto the exam table. Once she was settled, Dr. Dova ran the ultrasound probe over Cadance's swollen belly as a prerecorded video of a real pregnancy sonogram played on the monitor.

"Aaand there's the baby." Dr. Dova said, entirely for Shining.

"Wow. Our little foal!" Shining said, still astonished by the simple ruse.

"Yup. It sure is," Cadance said as he hugged her. She and the doctor exchanged knowing glances. The real appointment wouldn't be until after this, once Shining was no longer in the room with them. "I'll meet you back out in the waiting room once I finish up in here," she said. She gave him a kiss, and he trotted out to go read the new issue of Hoofball Illustrated. "Sorry about that," she apologized to the doctor, "He insisted on coming along again."

"No apologies, Princess. It's quite alright." He cleaned the conductive jelly off of her stretched tummy and helped her up. He lifted the stirrups up from under the exam table, locking them back in place. "And now for the real exam." He put on a fresh set of gloves as she lifted her legs into each stirrup, huffing as she struggled to lift each one. He retrieved his tools from the drawer. "So how have you been."

"I've been better," she groaned, adjusting her position with her legs spread for him. Dr. Dova warmed the speculum and spread her vulva with his gloved hoof.

"How is the morning sickness?" He asked, aligning the spreader with her entrance before sliding it inside in a smooth motion. Cadance groaned a little more.

"Oof! Not as bad as before. I think the worst of it is over," she said. With her enormous uterus taking up so much abdominal real estate, there was little room left for the metal spreader filling her vagina.

"How is the IUD holding up? Any leakage?" he asked, turning on the light on his headband.

"It's fine. I- Oof!" Cadance was cut off as he expanded the speculum, spreading her vagina open.

"I'm sorry, I should have forewarned you," he apologized. He resumed his exam, looking inside, to the back, inspecting everything. "You were saying?"

"It's fine. I don't think I would be able to tell if it was leaking though, since things are so wet already," she said. Indeed it was true. She was far more wet than she normally would be.

"That's a side effect of the hormone treatment. It too will pass." He finished his internal exam. "Everything still looks good in there," he said, letting the spreader close and sliding it out. Cadance visibly breathed a sigh of relief. "Any other side effects?"

"Just these," Cadance said, reaching down and cupping her teats. Normally tiny nubs hidden in her fur, her teats had swollen into full breasts. Cadance gave them a light squeeze, producing a tiny droplet of milk.

"Have you been milking them?" he asked, noting that they were somewhat deflated.

"No, um, Shining has been... helping. He's developed quite the taste for it."

"That's good I suppose." He took out a tape measure, measuring across her belly, writing down the number. He frowned at the small progress. "How often have you been... topping this off?" he asked, in the same accusing tone of a dentist asking how often she flossed.

"Probably not as often as I should," Cadance admitted.

"Clearly. Look at this graph!" He showed her a graph of the predicted progress of her size. It was a blue line on a grid going up and to the right. "This is where you're supposed to be," he pointed at the line of red dots on the line, and then drifting below the line, "And this is where you are." He put his hoof on her belly button. "You need to be..." He lifted his hoof about an inch and a half off of her belly, "about here," he said.

"I'm trying!" Cadance whined. He gave her a dubious, disapproving glare. "You don't understand! It's really hard. Like, really really hard! It's uncomfortable, it's heavy, my hooves are swollen and my back hurts! And I- I-" Cadance stared openly sobbing. "I'm sorry! I'm just so saaahhhaaAAD!" she cried, holding her hooves over her face.

"I see the mood swings are still a problem..." he made a note. "Your Majesty, please, I understand that it's difficult. But every mother has had to go through the same thing, only worse! You don't have to experience the pain of labor and delivery. Just a few more months and it will all be over." He tried to comfort her. Cadance slowly recovered herself, making use of the box of tissues. She took a few deep breaths and relaxed.

"Am I still going to be able to have sex?" she asked. Her heightened libido was the one effect of the medication that remained constant amid the coming and goings of food cravings, morning sickness and mood swings. "I mean, now that I'm getting bigger?" she asked, running her hooves over her belly. He hesitated for a moment, mentally considering the question. It was a yes-or-no question, with a fifty percent chance of either answer. He could say whichever and she would believe him implicitly.

"Why no, you actually no longer can," he could say, "You must abstain from sex with your husband for the rest of your term." And then, before long, she would become desperate. She would come back to him, the doctor, pleading for a solution to her carnal needs. And he could tell her, "As a trained professional, only I know the proper technique to sate the fire that burns within you." And then he would take her, right there in the exam room, strapped to the exam table while he was free to-

"Of course you still can," he answered honestly. He adjusted himself in his seat, seating weight on his own scrotum to curb his impure thoughts. "The flange port in recessed, so even if he... reaches your depths, he'll never notice anything amiss."

"Thank you, Dr. Dova," she said, gathering her things to leave.

"You can thank me by getting yourself back on schedule with your growth," he said.

"I will," she assured him, waving goodbye as she left out through the waiting room, fetching her husband to give him the good news.

Cadance had tried to make it a habit of 'topping off' her IUD each evening, just before her shower. The warm shower afterwards helped to ease the discomfort of the stretching enough for her, and afterwards, she slept through the rest. But with the good news of she and Shining being able to continue to be intimate, it would mean waiting until after he had fallen asleep to maintain her schedule, as he would often join her in the shower for some good, clean, marital fun.

Getting home from the appointment, Shining helped his wife along in the Crystal Palace to their chambers. The added mass of her fake pregnancy had been causing her very real problems with fatigue, back aches, and a cramped bladder.

"I can get myself to the bathroom," she said, availing herself of his cling. He let her go, watching her waddle to the bathroom. Cadance made a bee line for the royal throne, taking a seat. She didn't need to relieve much, but it was often, with such a small bladder now. "Shining?" she called out. She heard the clatter of hooves and then a thud as he collided with the locked door.

"Yes dear?" he asked from the other side, trying the knob.

"Could you go down to the kitchen and have them make me twenty seven slices of cheese?"

"Sure hon."

"Can you have them cut them into star shapes?"

"...really?"

"Yes. Cheese slices taste better in the shape of stars."

".... all of them?"

"SHIIIINIIING!" she cried.

"Okay! Okay! I'm going. But it's going to take them a while," he said. Cadance was counting on it.

"Thank youuuuu!" she called out, listening to the sound of his hooves trotting out of their suite. Truthfully, she was craving cheese. But she didn't actually care what it looked like. He could come back with a coarse wheel of it and she would eat it just the same. What she needed was some time alone.

Cadance leaned over, opening the cabinet under the sink, where she kept her 'pregnancy' supplies and other feminine accouterments, the existence of, Shining preferred not to acknowledge. She retrieved her bag and set it on the side of the bath tub. She swallowed one of the prescribed tablets with a glass of water. She then turned on the tub water, letting it run down the drain, checking the temperature such that it was neither too hot or cold. She turned it off and climbed into the empty tub, and laid back on the padded curvature, giving her spine a rest. She took the water hose out of the bag and levitated it between her spread legs, guiding it to her marehood. She spread her lips with her hoof and fed the length of it inside her wet entrance. Once she felt the connection of the tube to the flange in her cervix, she opened the valve of the line to add more water to her.

In her haste, she'd neglected to connect the other end to her shower's water tap. The warm water filling her IUD came rushing out of her, spilling into the tub and running down the drain. In mere moments, it was nearly empty. Cadance got to her hooves in a panic, finding that she was nearly weightless without the extra burden of the water. She had lost over twenty pounds in as many moments. She felt better in that instant than she had in a long time. She caught herself in the mirror. Her belly was gone! She was back to her slim self. It was as though she had only just awoken from some bad dream. She felt the hose dangling behind her, hanging from her marehood, still attached inside her.

Her joy was short-lived. She couldn't stay like this. Shining would be back soon, and she had a pregnancy to finish. She flexed, and stretched her back, cherishing the moment a bit longer. She laid down in the tub once more. She closed the valve on the hose, and connected the other end to the water tap, turning it on. She took a deep breath, slowly exhaling as she opened the valve on the hose.

She could feel the warm water rushing inside her, filling her once more. Cadance was able to comfortably let the water run without throttling its flow for some time, watching in terrified awe as her belly expanded by degrees right before her very eyes. Subtle at first, Cadance began to feel the pressure within. As she expanded, she could feel her organs once-more being pushed out of the way to make room for her growing uterus.

"MMMfffff!" Cadance groaned, nearing where she had previously been in girth. She partially closed the valve, slowing her rate of gain. She rubbed her tummy with her free hoof, feeling it becoming taught with the pressure. Water continued to fill her, albeit slowly now. She pushed herself, eager to get back on track with her progress. The pressure mounted, becoming more and more unbearable. The discomfort of it grew along with her belly, bordering on the edge of pain. Cadence closed the valve just a moment before she felt like she would burst.

She turned off the water and disconnected the hose, both from herself and the tap, coiling it up and putting it away. She levitated the kit back into the cabinet and closed the drawer. She laid there a moment longer, summoning the will to get up. The walls of the tub began to feel impossible high. She was fatigued, sore and, inexplicably, horny.

She grunted and groaned, righting herself, and scaling the edge of the tub, out onto the bathroom floor. She waddled and stumbled out of the bathroom and into the bed chamber, and, with her last bit of strength, all but collapsing onto the bed. The feeling of absolute fullness, akin to after a large feast, leaving her drowsy. Sleep took her quickly.

"So what if it's a filly?" Shining asked. "Any thoughts about a name?"

"I was thinking, Flurry Heart," Cadance answered. "What about for a colt?"

"Stormageddon!" Shining said, giggling.

"Absolutely not!"

"Absolutely not!" Cadance murmured, still half-asleep.

"I was just asking if you wanted your cheese," Shining said, standing by her bedside with a platter of cheese slices, cut into star shapes. Cadance opened her eyes and blinked at him. Shining held the platter out to her, the slices of star-shaped cheese had been carefully arranged in a patterned layout that would be pleasing to the eye for presentation. Cadance barely registered their appearance as she grabbed several in her hoof, stuffing them into her mouth, chewing aggressively. Shining frowned at her vulgar display, a little but remembered that she was eating for two, beheld to her cravings. He made an effort to not spoil her tenuous mood. She didn't stop until she scooped up the last broken bits with her hoof, cleaning the plate.

"Hank hoo," she managed, mouth still full of cheese. Shining smiled and placed the plate on the bureau.

"And dessert?" he asked, offering her a chocolate. She snatched it from his hoof, greedily eating it immediately. The chocolate mint was as much for Shining's benefit as hers. He did not relish the thought of kissing her with cheese-breath. "Better?" he asked, now that she'd eaten the food that she had requested for her craving.

"MNnnggh. So full," she moaned, rubbing her belly, bigger than ever. Shining's hoof joined hers, rubbing her belly. "Do you think I'm still pretty?" she asked, seeking affirmation.

"Of course!" he said, putting his hoof on hers. "You're as beautiful as you've ever been!"

"You're just saying that," she said, unconvinced.

"No, I mean it. You're carrying a new life. Our little foal. There is nothing more beautiful than that," he said. She bit her lip and looked away. She knew he was being honest. But it didn't really answer the question that she intended. She looked at him again,

"I mean, do you still think that I'm attractive?" she asked. "I'm so fat. Do you still find me..." she struggled to get the word out, but there was simply no other adequate substitute for it, "...sexy?"

"Oh, baby..." he cooed, climbing in to bed with her. He put his hoof under her head, lifting her to his kiss. After a moment, he pulled away, "I'm always going to find you sexy." Cadance rolled her eyes.

"Even when I'm old and wrinkly?" she asked. He nodded. "So you have no standards." Shining's smile faded.

"Okay Cadance, you're right," he admitted. "Yes, there will come a day when you and I both are old biddies and we will no longer be attractive or sexy." Cadance was about to roll away from him, dejected. Shining put a hoof on her shoulder to stop her. "The day will come when 'little shiny' will stop saluting at the sight of your body." He took her hoof in his, pulling it downward. He put her hoof onto his growing erection, sprouting between them. "But it will not be this day." She smiled, taking his cock in her hoof, all the validation she needed. He held her as she held him, kissing her once more, deeply as she continued to stroke him.

"Why did I ever doubt you?" she asked. He answered only with a smile, lifting himself off of the mattress, moving over her. Cadance moved with him, rolling off of her side, and onto her back. He leaned over her, giving her another quick kiss on her lips, then her cheek. He planted little kisses as he moved down, on her neck, her collar bone, her chest. He took extra time to kiss along the arc of her stretched belly, slowly making his way lower. Cadance smiled, knowing what was coming next.

"No wonder you feel so full," he commented of her swollen teats, heavy with milk. Some expectant mares would simply milk themselves, without a foal yet to feed, discarding the milk. A crime it was, in Shining's eyes. He gently took one in his hoof, bringing his lips to her nipple, suckling her, savoring every last, life-giving drop. Instinct took over for Cadance. Nature had made the act of providing her young with nourishment a pleasure. Both the stimulation of her nipples, along with the palpable relief of the pressure within her mammaries felt wonderful to the mare. Shining, once a breastfed foal himself, felt an innate drive to seek her milk. Draining one teat, he moved on to the other. He made thorough work of the task, emptying both teats completely, to the satisfaction of both ponies. Not a drop wasted. "As it should be," he thought. Both the intimacy of the act, and the taste of her milk, was a duet of delights for the stallion without compare. Save, perhaps, for what came after.

He drifted downward, between her legs. Cadance sighed as he parted her engorged pussy lips with his hooves. He wasted no time with pretense, diving right into familiar territory. For her part, she was grateful for his haste, appreciating his gusto of effort. She had been looking forward to this even more than he was. An impressive feat in its own right.

Shining could not deny his desire for her marehood. He simultaneously indulged and savored it. As he lapped greedily into her folds, he likewise cherished the experience, acutely aware of its temperance. The pregnancy hormones coursing though body her changed many things about her. Not the least of which was her chemistry 'downstairs'. He brushed his nose against her winking clitoris, his nostrils flares, taking in her scent. He had partaken of her feminine buffet enough times to know her through and through. But her pregnancy had changed both her scent and taste. Neither for the worse.

Her new scent and flavor wasn't completely different. It was still her, only more... mild? Normally a mixture of sweet and tart, her flavor was less of the tart, and now, somewhat more... savory? His mind struggled with the proper adjectives. Culinary artists had created an entire vocabulary for describing all sorts of foods meant to be eaten. But they lacked the words to describe his favorite thing to eat: pussy, and the differences between normal and pregnant flavors. It was less tart, he decided, in spite of the gross inadequacy of the descriptor. All that mattered was that it was different. And he liked it. He liked it, and he partook as often as she would allow. He was conscientious of the temporal aspect of this delicacy, enjoying what he could while it lasted.

Cadance was hardly in a position to object to him orally pleasing her. She looked down her body, barely able to see the tip of his horn, and tuft of blue mane, above her enormous abdomen. She hadn't realized how much she had enjoyed watching him go to work on her until she no longer could. But she needn't her eyes to enjoy the the effect he was having on her as he ran his tongue up and down along her folds. Occasionally he would dart his tongue inside her entrance at the bottom, running back up and flicking her sensitive nub at the top, sending little trembles through her gravid body.

His hooves wrapped around her legs, playing with her nipples as he continued to lick and gently suck on her clit. Cadance writhed and squirmed as she felt herself getting closer to her orgasm. Shining knew exactly how, where, and at what speed to stimulate her in just the right way to get her off. She felt incredible, and incredibly fortunate to have such an attentive lover as a spouse.

"Ooh, Shining!" she cried out, feeling the knot in her tummy pulling tighter. He sped up, riding along as her hips began to roll and buck against his face, trying in vain to hump back against an absent penis. Her thighs closed on the sides of his head, holding him tightly.

"Ngh. Ngh! NGH! AAHhh I'm cumming!" Cadance moaned as her orgasm rolled through her. Shining was rewarded for his efforts with a fresh gush of her sweet nectar. Cadance could feel her muscles squeezing and contracting, begging for a penis within her. The presence stretching her uterus neither feeling worse or better amid the storm. But it was certainly different. She opened her eyes and looked down. After a moment, she saw him rise, appearing just above the round horizon of her belly. His mane was a disheveled mess and his chin was dripping with her juices. He wore a smile she could see for a mile as he mouthed 'thank you' to her. "Oh no, thank you," she breathed, still enjoying the aftershocks of her climax.

Shining worked his way up along her body, scaling her belly and leaning over to kiss her. She could taste herself on his lips, and she could feel him prodding against her beyond her line of sight. The mass between them prevented them from being able to embrace during intercourse in this position. He moved back down to bring the tip of his eager dick to her thoroughly wet pussy. He began to slid it inside, enjoying the snug fit. With her womb taking up so much space, it was crowding everything around it, making her vagina especially tight. But the weight of it was becoming a strain for her, making it increasingly difficult to breathe as he began thrusting.

Shining held her spread legs as he slid in and out of her, enjoying the view of her marehood stretched around his member. He played with her teats, giving her nipples some attention as he fucked her. He watched her enormous belly sway and jiggle each time his hips slapped against hers, its pendulous weight rocking up and down in time with each hump. It was hypnotic, like watching a lava lamp.

"Shining-" Cadance moaned, trying to get his attention. But he was lost, watching her body moving beneath him. "Shining!" Cadance cried. He looked up at her face. It was beet red as she huffed and puffed, struggling for air. Shining stopped immediately, pulling out and moving to aide her.

"Oh my gosh! Are you okay?" he asked. Cadance rolled onto her side, finding relief in the new position, breathing normally once again.

"I'm okay now," she said. "I just needed to get onto my side. I'm getting too big to be on my back like that anymore," she explained. She lifted one of her legs, bidding him to resume what he had started.

"Okay then. If you're sure that you're okay."

"Your concern is duly noted. Now please finish fucking me," she said, her hormonal lust still raging. Shining obediently did as he was told, getting back into position. He straddled her leg on the bed, holding her other up with his hoof as he realigned himself with her pussy as he scooted closer. After a few minor adjustments, he found it quite easy to take her in this new position. Better, quite in fact, given her new body shape.

No longer having to compete with his legs and stomach colliding with her butt and belly respectively, he was able fuck her deeper than ever before. Cadance was thoroughly enjoying the new position as well, feeling his dick entering her from a completely different angle, hitting all of her inner surfaces in a fresh way, stimulating her with a myriad of new pressures and frictions. Cadance clutched her pillow as he plowed into her with new gusto. Free of the weight of her belly on her, she was able to enjoy it without its heavy burden crushing her.

From the new angle, Shining's dick completely filled her. She could feel him bottoming out in her inner depths as his groin smacked directly against her wet pussy. Shining released her leg, taking instead her belly in his hoof, running it along her curvature, watching her laying on her side in profile as he fucked her, taking in the shape of her pregnant body. He could not have predicted months ago that it would have been such a turn-on for him. Yet here he was, harder than ever at the sight. Indeed, Cadance could feel his ridged member, as big as she could ever remember, moving in and out of her. The textured, veiny surface running along her velvety walls. She could feel him swelling yet bigger.

"Cadie I'm- I'm-"

"Yes! Yes! Fuck me!" she cried, feeling her own orgasm building again along with his. He grabbed her leg for an anchor and redoubled his efforts. He could feel her tensing as well as him. The pressure in his balls reaching a breaking point. He could feel them tightening, pulling upward into him as his cock swelled and his head flared wide inside her. Cadance's eyes rolled back, feeling his flare stretching her love tunnel to its limits. "I'm cumming!" Cadance moaned again, her pussy practically vibrating around his shaft, her wetness squirting out around him as he pushed into her, soaking his crotch with her orgasm. It was the last straw.

Shining slammed it home, pulling her leg to him, pushing himself deeper. His cock pressed against her cervix, pushed her entire uterus. Cadance groaned in her orgasm feeling her entire abdomen shifting as he repeatedly slammed shock waves though with water in her womb. Pushing it deep one last time, his cum erupted inside her, mixing with hers. Each load trying to add to an already filled space, forcing its way out around his flared head.

Cadance struggled to turn her upper half to him as he leaned in to kiss her. To his dismay, he could not reach her without pulling out. He preferred to stay inside her for a while after. But the purpose of doing so was moot at this point, given her apparent condition. He pulled free with a wet 'plop' as their fluids rapidly spilled from her. He leaned over and kissed her as his semi-hard cock rubbed against her cutie mark on her flank, smearing it with his cum. For her kiss, it was a fair trade, he supposed.

"I'm looking forward to meeting our foal," he said as he snuggled, spooning her on the bed from behind. "But I have to admit, I'm going to miss this," he added, gently rubbing her belly.

"Really? I'm not," she said.

"Actually, yeah. I think it's sexy," he admitted.

"You're weird."

"Guilty." He nuzzled into her mane, falling asleep beside her, holding her in his hooves.

The last month of her 'pregnancy' was by far the most difficult for her. Each evening she went into the bathroom, both looking forward to, and dreading, her task.

It was always a relief at first, as she settled into the bathtub. She guided the hose into her vagina and connected it to the port in her cervix, opening the valve and intentionally letting the fluid empty from her. She looked forward to this moment all day. It was the one thing that was always on her mind.

Even 'pregnant' as she was, she still had to see to limited princess duties. She was given a specialized throne, recumbent for her comfort, while overseeing her Crystal Empire court. But as she listened to the prattling of the common folk discourse over property disputes, all she could think of in the back of her mind was getting the day over with as soon as possible so she could retire to her chambers, come here, into the bathroom, alone, to relieve herself of her burden.

Cadance laid her head back on the padded tub wall and let out a sigh of pleasure, feeling the water rushing out of her body through her vagina, letting her relax and breathe freely. But each evening it was a battle of willpower. Wanting nothing more than to just remain here, deflated. But knowing that she must refill herself, and more so. She sighed in dejected resignation, a break from her duty all too brief as she connected the other end of the hose to the water tap, turning it on.

"UNNGgggghh!" Cadance groaned, feeling herself being refilled with the warm water rushing inside, filling her body once more, watching herself re-inflating. She gripped at the sides of the tub, feeling herself stretching just a bit more, that familiar discomfort, before she closed the valve and disconnected the hose. She pulled herself up out of the tub, looking at her massive figure in the mirror. "Just a couple more weeks of this," she huffed, laboring for breath. "You can do this."

Finally, it was the big day. Cadance had rehearsed everything with Dr. Dova before. She had been looking forward to this greatly. She took a bucket of warm water and threw it on the bed. She put the bucket back in the closet and climbed into the warm wetness. She took a deep breath and braced herself.

"SHINING!" She screamed out. Shining came barreling through the bedroom door. "I think my water broke!" Shining looked at the wetness on the bed. It definitely didn't smell like pee.

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!" Shining panicked.

"You have to get me to the maternity ward!" Cadance said, trying to stay in character. Shining, a stallion of action, wasted no time. To Cadance's surprise, he levitated her to him, carrying her in his magic as he ran in a dead sprint through the Crystal Palace, down the stairs, and out into the streets of the Crystal Empire.

It was not the Crystal Town, or even the Crystal City. It was the Crystal Empire. Nothing about it was small. And everything was far away.

Including the Crystal Hospital.

Shining sprinted through the streets. Cadance watched the crystal ponies looking on as Prince Shining Armor bolted down the road, levitating the pregnant, Princess Cadance along with him at full speed as though death herself was nipping at his hooves. Buildings and homes flew past them as Cadance wondered when he would tire himself out. His eyes watered, running into the wind. His leg muscles burned, and his horn ached from the constant use.

They passed several chariots, the drivers giving earnest chase, calling out after them, begging to assist the royal couple. Shining outran them all, stopping for nothing and nopony, hearing naught but the clatter of his hooves beneath him, and the thunder of his pounding heart in his ears. After endless minutes, the hospital came into view. Shining didn't slow by even an iota. If anything, he ran faster. His energy reserves long since depleted, his body defied all logic and reason, moving with unnatural speed, all but crashing through the main entrance of the hospital.

Before the receptionist could even react, he was already through the waiting room, navigating the halls by heart, diving in and out around ponies, trying to make way in the hall to avoid the charging unicorn. Cadance could see, upside down, the sign for maternity as Shining slammed through the double doors, screeching to a halt at last at a bed in one of the ward suites. And, with a surprising amount of grace in the wake of his brash charge, gently lowered her onto the bed, releasing her at last from his magic before instantly collapsing onto the tile floor. He gasped and wheezed, barely clinging to consciousness, unable to get the oxygen into his lungs fast enough.

"Your Highness!" Dr. Dova came rushing over with a cadre of nurses. "Quick, get him to the ER!" he shouted. The nurses scooped him up onto a gurney. With the stallion seen to, he turned his attention back to the princess, glancing at his watch. "You're early," he said. Cadance watch her husband being carried away. "Don't worry. He'll be fine. He's in good hooves. Lets take care of you," he said, rolling her to a private delivery room. "I bet you're looking forward to this," he said, closing the door to the suite behind them. He gave her a tube similar to the one she'd been using to fill herself. She took it in her magic and guided it inside as he brought over a large bucket. Cadance opened the valve and sighed, enjoying the feeling of the water pouring out of her one last time, draining into the bucket. Afterwards, instead of disconnecting the hose, the doctor wrapped it around his hoof.

"Okay, now brace yourself, you're going to feel a slight sting," he warned her. Cadance gripped the rails of the bed. "On the count of five, four- yoink!" He gave the hose a sudden tug, dislodging the flanged port from her cervix.

"OW!" Cadance felt a sharp pain rip through her abdomen, but it quickly passed.

"Sorry," he apologized, pulling the rest of the IUD out of her. "There. You're all done." Cadance righted herself and covered her modesty with her tail.

"So now what?" Cadance asked. The door to the suite opened. Princess Celestia and Luna walked inside, carrying a small bundle.

"Princesses," Dr. Dova greeted, taking a bow. Celestia nodded back. Luna addressed him back.

"Greetings once again to you, Ben."

"It'll probably be a unicorn," Shining mumbled into his oxygen mask. He was hooked up to a re-hydration IV in the ER, "You know, since we're all unicorns on my side of the family, and she's half unicorn." He took another labored breath. "But a pegasus would be cool too, somepony for her to teach how to fly..." He envisioned his wife and foal flying around the sky as he watched. The earth pony nurse gave him a look. Shining quickly amended himself. "Or an earth pony too! I have no problem with that." He put his hooves up in a I'm-totally-not-racist gesture. "I'll be happy no matter what."

Celestia opened the bundle presenting it to Cadance.

"Here you are. Your new foal!" she said. Cadance looked inside at her tiny unicorn filly as she flipped the wrappings off of her with her little wings.

"An Alicorn!?" Cadance gasped, "An alicorn baby? Where did she come from? How- How is this even possible?" she asked. Celestia furrowed her brow.

"You ask a lot of questions, Cadance. Not very charismatic. It makes you kind of an underhoof figure. I'm not really feeling a lot of trust. Not a lot of gratitude right now. I believe the words you are searching for are 'thank you'."

"Um, thank you?" Cadance replied.

"You're welcome." Celestia said. The doors to the suite opened as a nurse pushed Shining in in a wheel chair, past Celestia and Luna on their way out. Celestia looked back, "Happy parenting."

Author's Note

Dr. Dova washed his hooves and hung up his white coat in his office. It had been an exciting day. "Dr. Dova?" Dr. Dova turned toward the purple pony addressing him. It was the Head-Nurse-soon-to-be-Doctor. "I think I've come up with a solution to cure Alicorn infertility," she said. She held up a small sample jar, filled with a white fluid. "And I have just the sample to test it with."