I want to share a few thoughts (and brag a little) after labor and delivery: So after the most difficult pregnancy that Karisa Parish Hillman has had. She has beared the burden so amazingly well. (I know that a lot of people have tough pregnancies and by no means want to say that it has been tougher than anyone else's cuz all we had to do is hear of a lady that is in the hospital and will be for 4 more months, to realize things could be a lot harder.) But I just want to take a minute and brag on my wife.
She is SO awesome!! When we were dating one of the things that impressed me the most was her desire to have a family and be a mom. I felt so blessed yesterday when the nurses had to ask us if when we take the baby home, if we will have warm heat and things to take care of it. I don't have to worry one bit of her desire and ability to take care of our children.
The other thing I want to mention is that she feels like she isn't good at being pregnant cause she gets so sick, and consequently feels a little failure. Which I think even more of her for and how well she deals with it. But anyway, she decided that maybe to help her feel a little better about her success of her pregnancy she would try to deliver the baby "natural", meaning without pain medicine. So I supported her in that as well as her nurses. Her nurse was the head nurse in delivery and had this comment: " I am not easily impressed, but I have been doing this for 13 years and never seen someone deliver so well and remain calm and deal with the pain as well as she did, especially with delivering a posterior baby. " All along this pregnancy I have repeatedly reminded Karisa that she needs to write down a lot of notes so that she remembers what she went through, and doesn't forget it in a year or two. But after the delivery the nurse said something that really caused me at least to ponder for a bit. She said WOW you guys really ought to have more kids. 1st of all your married! Second she delivers so almost "freakishly" well. And we have wonderful beautiful and healthy babies.
I am not here saying that is our determination but it really made me think of all the babies born in the world and the circumstances that they come into. And makes me feel so grateful for our eternal marriage and good circumstances which we have. And I also hope that Karisa feels great success in her delivery."
1 comment:
Wow! What a beautiful tribute to a very deserving woman! I have been wanting to call you and catch up. I hope I can catch you tomorrow!
Post a Comment