The little man

I am no prolific artisan with words, but I will try to do this site some justice.

The story is quite an interesting one so I will inject it here before the pics of our healthy and happy little man.

so she left off the story at waiting to call the midwives.... we then went to bed when we were quite certain that there we were facing real labour and knew that we needed some rest. so we wend down at about midnight and slept for about an hour and a half (I slept, but Sue says she didnt get much). then sue had us back up and timing the contractions as they were getting stronger and at 2 we decided that it was time to get the midwives over. they arrived at about 2:30am and that is the time that they recorded as the start of active labour. so things got quite intense at a rapid pace. at 4 am we agreed to have them rupture the membrane to accelerate things and it certainly did we continued to labour standing as sue found that to be the most bearable position. Then about a half hour later sue was back on the bed and they determined that it was almost time to push (just wait 3 more contractions then we can start that. ) This is where things really started to get intense for me because the midwives were having a hard time finding a baby heart beat because of the position and when they could it was quite faint and slow. I cannot discribe the feeling of wondering if our child would survive as they discretely discribed the need to get this baby out NOW. Only made worse when they saw that he had the cord around his neck) I must say that these women were WONDERFUL they took charge and had sue pushing even between contractions. They needed to give her an epesiotamy sp? to expedite the process and in a very short time they had little Samuel up on mommys chest. I waited anxiously for that first cry, and when it came I became a ball of tears as the three of us lay together and I knew that he was alright. This is when it becomes wonderful to have midwives, because sam was able to lay on mommy until her stitches at which time I got to hold him for a good half hour. then they gave baby and mom a herbal bath(while cleaning out our room and making the bed), gave him his physical and had her feed him. The time after the birth was so nicely done by these ladys, and I highly recommend a home birth to anyone interested. They basically bring a small hospital into the room with them and were able to do in our bedroom exactly what they would have in a hospital. well now mom is resting and baby is sleeping on Oma's chest and that is our night in a compact and sporatically remembered form.

Of course as the writer of this I do get the first picture priviledge. (sorry about the orientation)
























































Julia was supercute when she got the news this morning her response over the phone was "OH, that's so special, I have a BABY." Then when she got home today she came in and sang 'Jesus Loves Me' to him. (that is a sure way to make daddy cry)















Thankyou all so much for your prayers.

In the same way that Hanna's prayers were answered to give her Samuel, your prayers were answered to give us our Samuel.

Daddy