12/12/2008

This past Friday, December 12th, my wife delivered our first child, a beautiful baby girl. It was, without a doubt, the most courageous and powerful example of human determination I have ever witnessed. Without going to into much detail, this turned out to be anything but a normal delivery. Adelyn was in what is called, a posterior position (face pointing up)which makes it all the more difficult to get the baby out. The child is fine basically, but it puts an unbelievable amount of stress on the mother by forcing her to push more than usual. Chrissa ended up pushing for almost 2 1/2 hours and in the process tore her cervix. After Adelyn was born, because of the tear, Chrissa lost a significant amount of blood. It took about an hour but due to outstanding work of our doctors and nurses, Chrissa and the baby came out of the situation alive and well.

Throughout the delivery, we had my BOSE headphones sitting with us on the bed playing Beatles songs. It really was perfect and probably more importantly seemed to calm the both of us, so, I only find it fitting that this song close this post.