"Urk!" declared Flurry Heart.
"Um, dear?" asked Shining Armor at Cadence's bedside while the doctor busied himself at Her Highness's other end. "I'm not sure you should be doing that."
"She wanted to be here," Cadence growled as sparks began to fly from her glowing horn. "She demanded it. I'm not going to deny my darling daughter's request to be present at the—ARRRGHHH!!—birth of her sibling!"
Shining Armor took a long look at the coil of blue magic constricting Flurry, pulsing and throbbing in time with his wife's labor contractions. "I still don't think—"
"IF SHE LEAVES, YOU'RE UP NEXT!" Cadence bellowed through a contraction, which left Flurry to make a squeaking noise much like a dog toy being squeezed.
After due consideration for both his mortality and that of his daughter, Shining Armor settled back down and patted his wife on the fetlock. "You know best, dear."