Welcome to the world
Reese Ella Ramirez
born March 30 2008
It's official. Carly's a mom. I got the call in the middle of the night last Saturday night,hopped in my car and drove down. Got to Torrance about 3:30 am and realized we had a while to wait so we decided to snooze knowing it could be a while
After sleeping for a while Mark and I decided to go to Carly & Sonny's house to get some real sleep. We got there, brushed our teeth got into bed and the phone rang. 
Carly was at 10 centimeters. I calmly asked "got your camera ready?" "Well, I was hoping you'd be the one to take pictures." was her reply. I hopped out of bed, made Mark get dressed and we were back in the car driving again. I got to be in the room to take picures which in my eyes was a big honor. I wanted NO ONE around when I delivered. She had a great labor, totally calm and pushed like a champ for 2 1/2 hours. She never struggled, or faultered. Although extremely exhausted, she delivered the beautiful baby Reese into the world. It was truly an amazing experience.
After sleeping for a while Mark and I decided to go to Carly & Sonny's house to get some real sleep. We got there, brushed our teeth got into bed and the phone rang. Carly was at 10 centimeters. I calmly asked "got your camera ready?" "Well, I was hoping you'd be the one to take pictures." was her reply. I hopped out of bed, made Mark get dressed and we were back in the car driving again. I got to be in the room to take picures which in my eyes was a big honor. I wanted NO ONE around when I delivered. She had a great labor, totally calm and pushed like a champ for 2 1/2 hours. She never struggled, or faultered. Although extremely exhausted, she delivered the beautiful baby Reese into the world. It was truly an amazing experience.Now.....that being said I still have a few differnt thoughts. The main one being,OH...MY...GOSH! No thank you. Having had c-sections I never truely saw a birth. I mean, I watched a baby story and watched it in movies, but to watch how long she actually had to push and hoping that with each push little Reese would stay and not float back up was complete agony. It seemed so much more painful and stressful. I always assumed pushing meant the baby would crown and not float back up to her warm little home/womb. Then....seeing her actually come out. WOW. I'm at a loss for words and have a picture I can't get out of my head. It was fast, beautiful, but yet unreal. A baby can actually make it through there??? Are you serious? It all just happened so fast that I just wasn't ready. But, thankfully, Carly was ready for her and didn't skip a beat. I can't wait until I can see Reese again and get to hold her and love her. I'm finally an aunt!
1 comment:
What a beautiful baby. And such a cute name. Didn't you consider naming Drew Reese? I think it was on my radar because of you. Super cute. All that hair....
And seriously, I was considering Craigslisting some blinds when we take them out. So if you're serious, for SURE I'll tell you when we do it.
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