Thursday morning started with a knock at the gate around 6:30…so you guessed it! A lady in labor. I went and had a quick check on her before clinic, and then came home for a bit of coffee…things seemed normal and progressive at that point.
When I went back down to do a check-up on the lady again, I was a bit confused. Things seemed a little strange, but nothing really seemed wrong. Her vitals were great, and yet something seemed different than usual. I hardly thought about her fairly big measurements. They weren’t extreme.
Our clinic day continued…a rather hectic day for a Thursday…and then we just stayed on, coaching the mom, and hoping this baby wouldn’t wait forever to be born. The mom was getting so tired of the wait, and so was the dad.
“Can’t you just give her Oxytocin?”
At about 3:50 an adorable little girl baby popped out, just as I had told Whitney to set up the electric suction. The baby looked great. But, guess what! Something was still waiting to surprise us. I looked at Katie, and she looked at me. I said, “I think there is another baby in there!”
And then the three of us were so sidetracked we hardly knew what to do. We laughed. We told the dad. He shook his head. He raised his hands to heaven. Tears came washing into his eyes.
We girls just laughed and watched and gasped and couldn’t believe it. We were all going to witness a lovely double miracle. Our day was so exhilarating suddenly! But the mom wasn’t sure.
She had the work to do. So we whispered to the Grandma to speak encouraging words to her. And before long, the second adorable little girl was born, wriggling out from a very twisted cord, and fighting against shoulder dystocia, as she struggled to join her sister in the big, outside, surprised world.
All I can say is that we couldn’t stop smiling for the next 30minutes, at least. And I think I am still smiling now, as I write this. God is so good! What a gift!
