SHE'S HERE!

The new baby arrived to meet her family yesterday at 3:12 p.m. Her mother, my niece had been admitted to the hospital Monday night and her labor induced by an intravenous drip. The labor began in earnest around daybreak and proceeded slowly all day. I arrived around ten o'clock and tried to provide moral support for my anxious sister. After dilation reached 6, an epidural was given and there was some fear that it was wearing off around 1:00 and the anesthesiologist was called to give a little extra.. The pushing began in earnest around 2:45 and little Pateyn Brooke arrived soon after that. She weighed 8 lb. 3 ozs. She is a beautiful baby and will probably be blonde like her mother and sister. She has a pert little nose and big eyes and a sweet, little rosebud mouth. I can't wait to hold her. Her sister was hyper in the waiting room but unusually subdued when she met the baby. She was more excited to be going home with her little cousins to spend the night. It should be interesting to see if she is willing to share the limelight with the new baby. I came home exhausted. I must have pushed with every contraction, holding my breath with each one. I remember how tiring it can be to spend days (and nights ) in the hospital, with love ones. It is not the physical activity that drains one, but the emotional. I am so glad that it is over and we have a healthy baby. She is our miracle baby as her mother was stabbed on both sides of her abdomen, barely missing the baby with each wound. Now that the baby is here, her mother will have surgery on the hematoma that has formed on her leg between the three wounds there. The trauma of her mom 's attacked by a deranged total stranger while shopping in a local store is still causing her daughter to fear closed doors, all knives, and any absence of her mother. Hopefully the arrival of a sister will displace all those bad memories. I pray for health, and happiness for this young family. Thank you, Lord, for the blessings we have already received.