Babies and Blessings

The phone rang shortly after midnight today. It was one of the husbands who was in my last Bradley class. His wife had been in labor all day and he was wanting some advice. I could hear her in the background, and judging by the details he had provided along with the sounds she was making, I told him that it probably wouldn't hurt to head up to the hospital and see what progress she had made. It took me awhile to get back to sleep, I had to fight off the urge to go to the hospital and help.

I checked on them after I got Brian off to school and they had a long night with virtually no progress. I had to take Emily to school, and take care of some things at the office before I could commit myself to anything else. I was glad at this point that I had not spent all night at the hospital. I had never even planned to go to this birth, and I wasn't being paid. But, I am drawn to birth and I can't help myself.

About 10:30am, I called and checked with them, and they would like me to come. I spent a couple of hours with them before lunch and she made great progress and was now 8cm. I met Eddie for lunch, fed Danielle, picked up lunch for the waiting dad, and returned to the hospital about 2:00pm. The next 1 1/2 hours seemed to drag on and on and on. I didn't see any end in sight, and was beginning to second guess my decision to be there. Long story short...she started crowning on the potty, and the baby was caught by a nurse right outside the bathroom door. HA HA HA, the doctor had just been in their room. It was 3:45pm and she was ready to wrap up her day, and wanted to get things moving. The mom wouldn't cooperate and the Dr. got mad and left. Baby was born at 4:04pm. Serves her right for being a jerk.

The evening was busy too. Eddie rushed home with all the kids after work. I had dinner waiting, and he grabbed it and flew out the door to cub scouts. I fed the kids, and got them ready for bed, and then we had to go back to the office, because Eddie forgot a paper that needed to be signed so we could be added to the account at the scout office. While I was there I also looked for Eddie's cell phone. I had talked to him at the office before he left, but when I called him on the way home he didn't answer. When he got home he didn't have it. So it had to be in the car or in the office. I called it a few times in the office, while sitting in the car and out in the parking lot. No luck. We started to head to the church to get the paper signed, when the phone rang, it was Eddie's cell phone, but a lady was on the other end. She asked if I was looking for the phone. Yes, I was. They had it at the Kroger fuel center on Colonel Glenn. I was in shock! Eddie had stopped to fill up the car with gas on the way home and he must have dropped it. But somebody had actually turned in a brand new iPhone?? I told Eddie later when I returned his phone that he must be living right, because that was unbelievable. I know that our Heavenly Father does bless us when we make good choices in our lives.