Happy Birthday to me!!! Baby number 10!!

Hey Everyone!!
I just wanted to tell you about my super swell birthday celebration!!! I had a wonderful morning, I got 3 package slips!!! SO I went over to the post office and picked them all up!!! What a wonderful surprise! Packages on my birthday!!! They were supposed to be for Christmas, but they came right on my birthday, which makes it a whole bunch cooler!!! They were filled with candy, and baby stuff, CD's, and a whole bunch of other really great stuff!!! So if you were a part of that birthday (/Christmas) extravaganza... thanks so much! It really made my day!!!

Then at 2 I had to work, so I reported in for duty, I was first up... and waited... and waited... and waited... and nothing happened.... all night... I got a labor... but she was moving pretty slowly, and she was about to have her baby at shift change... but then she didn't... for a long time... so, yeah, no birthday babies for me, but here was a baby born on my birthday... His name is Arvic. :-)

It was a great shift, and in the middle of it, all the girls from the house came over and brought dinner! And we all had a party!!! It was SO much fun, just what I wanted to do!!

Last night I worked a shift with Holly. It was really great, I have gotten to see her deliver 2 babies, but she hasn't seen me catch any. So I was really hoping this would be the shift. We got there, and there were two labors! Perfect! I was first up, so I got the first one and Holly was second up, so she got the other. My girl had a bit of a difficult story. She had her first baby when she was 13. She was raped at 12 and delivered at 13.... she kept that baby for a few months and put it up for adoption. Then this baby. 4 years later... and she didn't feel like she could keep it either, for various reasons. So we talked about what she wanted to do when the baby came out, if she wanted to hold it or feed it, or whatever. And she said she did. So then, at 2:49p she delivered a little boy. So perfect, very cute, and very healthy. A while later Holly's girl delivered, as well as Tiffany's (another girl on shift with us).... and then we did the birth certificate, and got her all ready to go, and we went to the orphanage together. It was really hard for me, because of my Africa experiences... And after quite a few tears, all from the baby and me we dropped him off, and it went ok, and one of the Mercy girls is going to take the baby out for a while until he gets a bit older, a couple months, i think. Please pray for that little boy, if you think about it, and his mother too, who now has two children that she has put up for adoption.

So, she decided to name her son Loyd Jhon Tender.... Tender is not the last name... it's the third name... they were very excited about his little name... :-) even though the spelling and the "tender" are a bit... funny... not as funny as this... Holly's patient named her baby... ready for this? "Princess Holly" he he he, it really added some humor to my not so fun shift. :-)

Now I am off to work on my assignment some more! But here is a picture of little Loyd, my 10th baby (in a pink towel...), and one of me and Loyd and Holly and... princess Holly! ;-)