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Monday, December 08, 2008
Incarnation
Last night (Sunday, December 7) at 9:44, my grandson Mateo Jackson Buckley Hernandez was born after a long hard induced labor. He weighed in at 9 pounds 11 ounces and measured 23 inches from head to toes. Lots of curly black hair, two dark brown eyes, all fingers and toes intact and accounted for.
No wonder Joanne's first words to me, after she'd witnessed the birth, were simply, "He's so beautiful!" And then she cried. Tears of joy, relief, gratitude for God's kindness as she'd seen and tasted it at Sharon's side throughout the labor-birthing process.
Sharon had been admitted Saturday morning with exceedingly high blood pressure, two days after the official due date, and the medics said "Let's go" -- or words to that effect. Her husband Victor stayed with her from start to finish. Soon they were joined by two of Sharon's closest friends, one of whom served as her doula assisting the nurses all along the way. While Joanne did her wonderful motherly thing, I found it best to be in and out of the room -- mostly out -- and felt as if I should be hunting or gathering something to make myself useful. Hello, Mars; meet Venus!
Today Joanne got to burp the baby, and then I got to hold him a while. Pure bliss. Sunny smiles. Odd little cooing sounds. Hearts brimming with thanks for this unspeakably wonderful Gift From God. Which is the exact meaning of his name -- Mateo. Our little living, breathing Gospel!
posted by Jack Buckley at
5:42 PM
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