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Delivery #22

There was strong thunder and lightning one night as often happens here, probably once or twice a week.. when it rains it pours…. and thunders…. and lightnings like I have never heard before (I also grew up in San Diego though where it probably rains only twice a year) anyways.. we have seen it speed up many deliveries.. it was 9pm at night when one of the nurses came knocking on our door telling us that there was a delivery.. out of the 4 of us that were at the house I was willing to do the delivery so I got changed and went over to the hospital to see how far along she was. The mother was very tired and I went in to do a VE and felt the head was caput… meaning the head was a bit swollen and the skull was farther back so she was not fully dilated yet.. sister Gillian, who is the one in charge of the hospital…who is 80+ years old… who is British and has been here in the Desh for 40+ years and was our contact to get here..who is the only white person for miles (besides us), she came in and said that the woman needed an episiotomy which is the first one I have been a part of ..after she did the cut the chord was around the neck so we clamped and cut and then pulled out the head and body and put it on the mom’s stomach.. The baby needed stimulating as it was having difficulty breathing… after a few minutes he coughed and started crying.

I got the name Joseph for him which means ‘the Lord adds’ and prayed over him that there would be an increase and double portion over his life. Deuteronomy 16:15 ‘the Lord shall bless and increase all the works of your hands.’



Delivery #23

She was in labour for 53 hours, which is called prolonged labour and is dangerous to the mother and child. So we used misoprostol to speed up the delivery. The head came out and the body came out easily with a perfect Apgar score which I was excited about since it would be my first baby to have a perfect Apgar. I got the name Genevieve Eden which means courteous spirit and delight. Psalm 40:8 ‘I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.’