Introducing.........Micah Carys

My baby girl was born on Labor day. How appropriate. So here is the scoop. I went in Mon. morning for blood work and pre-op stuff. After that, the anticipation nagged at me. We met my Dad for dinner and to hand off the boys. I wanted to cry as they drove away. I had a hard time getting to sleep. We woke-up around 4 am to load up the car and get to the Hospital by 6am. Once there, we began getting ready for her big appearance. My blood work from the day before showed low platelets so we had to wait an hour for new blood work that still came back low. They were the same and didn't dip so we went ahead with the surgery. I was immediately irritated with the I.V. It was very uncomfortable. Around 8am they wheeled me back to the freezing cold O R and moved me onto The Table. Anesthesia gave me the spinal which was a problem . The first one wouldn't go in but the second time was fine. I think I gained some more back problems from that little failure but only time will tell. Once they laid me back down and put up the shield Andy came in Dr. got started. She must have been very gentle because I didn't have near as much tugging and pulling as I did with the boys. It seemed like only a few minutes and there was my beautiful baby girl's face looking over the shield at me. My first thought with the boys was that they looked like their daddy but I was stumped with this one. She began crying and I began crying. Andy followed her over to be weighed and cleaned 8 lb.s and 7 oz. 20 inches long. Hardly any hair........little black fuzzies. The Dr. said, "O.K. I'm tying tubes, last chance!" I said O.K. go for it. She then proceeded to say that it was a really good decision because the lower part of my uterus, under previous scars, was worn so thin that if I had labored there is a very good chance it would have ruptured. We got all fixed up and as they were getting ready to wheel me into recovery they stopped, took the baby from Andy, put her in my arms, and said " Mommy carried her in here and she gets to carry her out." As I looked at her I decided she reminds me of Ben. Only more.... girly.

A gift from God, Love. Those are the meanings of her names. I can not even explain the way my heart becomes so tender every time I look at her.