Easter Blessings!

I know Easter was last week but it has been a crazy week. I will back up to Saturday day before Easter Sunday. One of my sweet mamas had been in "dates" (meaning she could have her baby safely and legally with me) for almost three weeks and we were just waiting to see when this baby would come. Back up more to one of the first visits I had with her... she told me that she thought this baby would be an Easter baby due to the fact that her due date was so close to it and her previous birth happened on a Thanksgiving morning. I love it when mamas tell me things like that. I log it away. Move forward again and we would joke back and forth that we were just going to plan on it being Easter. So... when she called me that Saturday with contractions I smiled to myself thinking it could happen. But, with second babies you just never know if they are going to come quickly into this world or just take their time.

I talked back and forth with her throughout the day and even though she didn't have the typical pattern or intensity I would look for we decided to have her come and see what progress she was making. They came that evening and quickly realized she was making some great progress and we decided to settle in to have this baby. She labored so beautifully and I spent a lot of time shooting birth prayers up as this was my first client in a long time that I would not have to transport. I sat with her and her husband and we swapped stories, joked and chatted all the while I was thinking she is just way to chipper to be going anywhere fast. Almost as soon as I thought this she turned a corner and switched gears. I felt I should call in my assist even though it happened that quick and I am glad that I did! She labored along and about two hours later, after midnight on Easter day, she had her baby girl. Perfect, beautiful and with no complications! Mama was amazing and so in tune with her body and what it needed. I was filled with joy and such wonder that God has granted me this gift to be able to assist women to bring these babes into the world. I can't even bring it to words! I am overcome with the simplistic, complicated, perfect, fragile, intricate thing that is birth. How anyone can experience it from the angle that I get to and not believe in the all powerful and gracious God out there, I will never know. I also know I was so thankful for the presence of my assist, she was such a calm and knowledgeable asset to me that I know helped me be able to focus completely on mama and baby. As we worked with mama and baby through the adjustment of those first precious moments after birth I also was so thankful how God allows my trained brain to do what it needs to do while being exhausted and pumping with the adrenaline of it all. Talk about a high. :)

I love what I do, and that Easter morning while we were joking about this baby knowing it was an Easter baby, I just had to think of how amazing it was that Christ came into this world in such a humble way and grew to give the ultimate gift for me, for this beautiful mama, for this new life, for everyone I love and those I will never know... how? why? God is so... well God. I will always cherish that Easter gift. I missed church that morning, for such a good reason, but I did have time to nap, get the kids stuff together and have a great Easter dinner with my little family. My boys are truly my joy and when I went to bed exhausted that night, my heart couldn't have been more full.