Nate - Our Gift of God

The day finally arrived, after a long wait to conceive this precious boy, some very swollen feet & a couple of nights in hospital at 7am on the 30th October, 2010, the nurse came in & told me, you better call your husband, your results are in & the doctors want you induced immediately!  So I quickly called Shortty & asked him to come in as quickly as he could as I was being induced immediately, I then called Jules & she started getting things sorted so she could come & support us through this amazing thing called birth :) 

Within 30 minutes I had a drip in my arm & my water had been broken.  I laboured mostly on the fit ball, with my eyes closed, in my own world, I had no real idea of who was around me, in fact, my midwife changed at about 3pm and I had no idea what she looked like until after Nate was born.  Not long after 3pm I started to feel as though I could not go on for much longer, and decided that I wanted to know how far dilated I was, I remember thinking that I can't do another 8 hours of this (as that would have been about how long I laboured with Mia for).  So I was sitting on the fit ball & had just asked to be check to see how dilated I was, then I started to feel like I was sitting on my babies head, like he was right there, when I stood up to get on the bed to be checked I remember saying 'Don't worry about checking, he's coming, call Mia, where's Mia (because Mia wanted to be at the birth), the Midwife very gently reassured me saying, it's ok honey, you still have quite some time, to which I replied, in what tone I'm not sure, 'No, he's coming, he's here'.  I got up on the bed, in the same position I birthed Mia, the midwife did not have to look to closely to realise that 'he' was, in fact here.  Shortty was on the phone trying to get Mia to the hospital, he had to hang up very quickly or he was going to miss delivering his baby Boy.  I remember trying not to push because I wanted Mia there, but it was impossible, our precious little man entered the world @ 3.48pm & we became a family of 4!! 

10 minutes later his very excited little sister arrived, my heart could not have been any more full at that time! Mia cut the cord & was so gentle & loving towards him, my heart swells now just thinking of it.  So here he is, out precious little man :-)

 1 hour old

 2 hour old

Mia checking out her little Bro for the 1st time, 10 minuted old

And the reason this blog is not dated the day of his birth... it took 7 days to name our precious man, Mia ended up deciding for us, choosing Nate from a list of 4 names, so Nate it is, our very precious gift from God!