About Our Beginnings...

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Hiro was born January 17th at 12:07 am at Kaiser hospital, 48 hours after the water broke. It was a natural birth, and a very positive experience. Judah was born January 1, 2010 at 1:08 pm 7 hours after the water broke. Judah was delivered at Andaluz Waterbirth center, which was a completely magical experience that we highly recommend to anyone having a normal healthy pregnancy. Malakai was born on December 23, 2011 after three days of inactive labor labor and three hours of active labor (three hours after the water broke). Kai was born at Andaluz as well, this time in "Sienna" the red room. It was a relaxing and delightful way to spend our first Christmas with Malakai.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

First Christmas Break

My first Christmas has been very eventful. I got to meet Great-Uncle Mark and John and I even got presents! Wow, I am so loved! They haven't even met me and already everyone is showering me with attention. I also got to meet Caitlyn Amber Welcome, she's just a few months older than me, and she is the daughter of Brandon Welcome, Mommy and Daddy's old youth pastor and mentor who is living with his lovely wife Kristy in Ireland.

Other family news, Mama has had a headache for almost a week! She hates taking anything when she's not feeling well because pain is usually her bodies way of telling her something, but this head ache just would not go away! Tylenol didn't do a thing, so under Auntie Becca's advice, Mommy called the advice nurse. Thank goodness we have a nurse in the family! The nurses at Kaiser wanted to see me and mommy right away to make sure we didn't have pregnancy induced hyper tension.
Momma and Daddy were not really worried about me...I was moving just fine, and the headache is probably more about the holiday rush and mommy missing her friend Shana (she passed away two weeks ago). But they got to listen to my heart beat for over 20 minutes and got to see me on an ultrasound! The last time they did that, I was just 18 weeks old and in this picture I was 35 weeks and 3 days! The nurse told mommy it looked like I was still floating from the ultrasound, head down, and the placenta is above me by mommy's lungs...which explains why she never feels me up there. The picture of me above is a profile to the right with nose and eye cavity visible. To the left of the picture is my belly and hands curled up against my chest.


Below is the Picasso of me...you can see both eye cavities and my chin...and some large funny looking lips. Mommy thinks (and hopes ) I am going to have Uncle Ryan's lips. We'll see! The picture below is a closer shot of my profile. Good luck seeing exactly what I am...I should be there in a month or less...Mommy is hoping I come sooner then later! All the tests they did on me show that I am active and healthy. I have a strong heart beat and everything looks good. Hopefully the next time you hear from me, I'll be on the outside!
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The McGarrys said...

Erin! This is a crazy small world moment... Kristy Welcome and I were on the same trip to Romania with GEM in summer of 2003, so I keep up with the three of them, too! What a small world. They are a wonderful trio.

Many blessings for a smooth labor and delivery~ our boys will both be here soon! Yay!!! (=

January 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM

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