Monday, 13 October 2008

• Introducing....

  Nehemiah Courage was born Wed. Oct. 8th at 1:55 am. He weighed 7lb 14 oz and was 21 inches long. I started noticing contractions at 4:00am Tuesday morning and told Billy he could go to work, but to keep his phone on! About 2:30 I called him home and we went to the midwifes. We arrived there about 5pm (He got home an hour later and it's an hour drive to the midwife) to find out I was only 2cm dilated. That was disappointing after being in labor for 13 hours, so we went home to wait until the contractions got stronger and more frequent. We arrived back to the midwife about 11pm and I was 5cm dilated. At 1:55 he was born after 25 minutes of pushing. He scored perfectly on the apgar--was healthy pink and didn't even need help crying. He is a good baby, and we are doing fine. The Lord really gave me grace and endurance as nothing could have prepared me for the pain of labor, or that all 22 hrs of labor was going to be back labor which was quite painful for me. The car ride to Mollie's (midwife) was spent praying and quoting Scripture in order to take my mind away from the pain. He came through for me, and little Nehemiah is totally worth it! Pictures of the little guy are on facebook if you want to see them.
  
  
  
  

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