Thanksgiving planning

Today we talked with our daughter up north and we made plans for our Thanksgiving Feast!! I am so excited to be able to spend some time with she and her husband. We will do cooking and eating and play games and laugh and be silly and with any luck at all a great time will be had by all. On Friday the tentative plan is to go to the coast and walk on the beach (if the weather cooperates). I am so hopeful as walking on the beach is a wonderfully relaxing and health giving activity.

We did it!

What you may ask did you do? Well let me share this victory with you. I did a birth tonight, in fact just a few minutes ago. It was a special birth because this couple's last baby had a major heart defect and died a within a few hours of birth. They got pregnant again and this was the birth of that baby. Only it wasn't that easy. She had polyhydramnios - too, too, too much water around the baby. When her water broke it was like a fire hose at full blast. After the baby delivered there was a Tsunami which followed. The wonderful thing is that this baby is 100% normal and as I left the room he was already at breast and suckling beautifully. This was a long, long labor, 36 hours and I came in on my weekend off to be her midwife. It was a truly wonderful birth and I really had the opportunity to help give her something that she will remember for the rest of her life. We did it! She and I and her wonderful, supportive husband worked together as a team and we did it.