two years later i gave birth to julia this time mom and dad came for two weeks. again, i did not know how much i needed BOTH of them. and it was super special!
six month later joanna gave birth to megan... and guess who was there? mom. and it was super special!
21 months later mom came to town once again to fulfill her motherly duty..although, this time things went a little differently. mom had a "spell" while she was taking care of katie and julia. mark and i were at the hospital with newborn lucy. thankfully, zach was only two hours away at camp and was able to immediately come and help. while nothing dangerous happened.. mom was in a fog of confusion when mark and i realized something was VERY off. this was a very sad realization for all of us. my dad came to MS sooner then he anticipated... but after 24 hours mom cleared right up and she and dad stayed for an additional week and were super troopers. but guess who was there regardless of the situation? mom. and it was super special.
14 months later joanna gave birth to lizzie, and guess who was there? mom. and it was super special.
seven months later it was my turn to give birth AGAIN.. holy, moly i know. only this time it was decided many months before hand that mom and dad were not going to be there for the birth. anderson was due march 28th, and mark was graduating from college may 1st. merely weeks apart. we really wanted my mom and dad to be able to come to mark's graduation... traveling was getting harder and harder for mom. she was unable to fly by herself, and it wasn't going to work for them to come on back to back trips to MS. mom was in a very different place then she was even a year earlier. so i resigned myself to the fact that mom and dad would see Anderson when he was a month old and it really was going to be fine. many daughter's don't have the gift of having their mom at the birth of their children.. and i was going to be just fine. i was sad. very sad. but i totally understood. well, well, well, dad was asked to make a trip to north carolina and he decided that he and mom would drive, and our their way home from NC they would swing through MS from march 17th-march 22.. only five days. but they really wanted to see their grand babies. march 17th-22nd was kind of close to my due date but not really. my history with child birth looked like this:
i was due august 28th and she was hijacked(induced) on august 27th.
i was due ocotber 24th with julia and she came (with some castor oil assistance) on october 21st
i was due june 26th with lucy and she came (with come castor oil assistance) on june 22nd
i was never one of those lucky mama's that went early. i was always real consistent in giving birth right around my due date.
leading up to march my doctor saw no sign of real progression. i had been having contractions/braxton hicks for months.. AJ was head down but i had no dilation. the closer we got to mom and dad's arrival the more and more convinced i was that i was no where close to giving birth. regardless of how i felt, i was encouraged by the women in my bible study to specifically pray that anderson WOULD arrive while my parents were here. we prayed and cried together. they shared in my desire for my mom to be there. they understood the weight of the situation. my mom was also grieving the fact should would not be at the birth of one of her grandchildren. she felt it. she talked about it a lot. one week before my parent were due to arrive, mark announced our request to our whole church at a wednesday night service. right then and there our sweet, sweet pastor, Jason, begged the Lord to allow Anderson to come while mom and dad were present. i might not remember all the words jason used, but i remember the tone, the boldness, and urgency in which he spoke, and it touched me and mark SO deeply. after that evening of prayer i felt such in peace in whatever the situation held for us. i knew if mom wasn't there it would be sad, but we would make up for it somehow. however, i just continued to be still and let my Savior decide.
mom and dad arrived on march 17th, and for many days leading up to their arrival i was trying EVERY natural method of inducing labor. doctor's don't recommend starting these natural methods until you have reached your due date... but this was my fourth baby, i was doing WHATEVER i wanted. :) all my methods seemed to be proving failure.. nothing was happening... mom and dad arrived on march 17th, 2009 at 5:40 pm... at 6:00 pm exactly i was standing in the kitchen cooking dinner, i leaned down to grab a pan from the cabinet and "OUCH!" a REAL live contraction consumed by body and made me catch my breath and go still... was this it? was this labor? had God blessed us with the desire of our hearts AGAIN?! was my mom going to be able to see her first grandson be born?!...... (to be continued)
Mom and Katie:
Mom and Julia:
Mom and Lucy: (this is a terrible picture.. can't find the one i am looking for... but she was there :)
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