Dear Friends and Family,
We would like to make this a special letter from the Mead family to announce the birth of our fourth child: Jennifer Katiana Mead. She was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida on September 18, 2009 at 11:38pm. At birth she weighed 6 lbs, 6 oz and measured 20” tall.
We are very grateful to God who provided a very easy (by comparison!) and quick delivery. We were scheduled to go in the following day at 7:30 am for Maggy to be induced if she didn’t go into labor earlier. While we were OK with the induction, we would have rathered to forego that and were praying about that along with many of you. Maggy had been having irregular contractions, but they always went away.
Around 5:00 pm on Friday the 18th, she began recording her contractions again. They were about 14 minutes apart. By 7:00, they were about 9 minutes apart and we called the doctor. After getting the OK to go to the hospital, we packed up and headed in. She was admitted and after a brief check in Triage to confirm that she indeed was in labor, we were sent to Labor and Delivery. No sooner had the epidural been given and the contractions stopped! (According to the machine) The nurse set up the delivery table and got all ready to go and started a drip of Pitosin. After everything was ready, she was going to leave us and see if the contractions returned. But she decided one last check, and found the baby’s head almost out!
The doctor came in and after only one push, the baby was delivered! Daddy got to cut the cord and our 4th little one was officially ushered into our world! The remainder of the stay was pleasant and they released us at about 11:30 am on Sunday.
Maggy is resting comfortably and the whole family is very glad to have the new one! Thanks to all of you who have been praying for this to go smoothly. God has blessed us tremendously and we thank him for that!
David, Maggy, Joni Karina, Joshua, Jonathan and Jennifer
We would like to make this a special letter from the Mead family to announce the birth of our fourth child: Jennifer Katiana Mead. She was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida on September 18, 2009 at 11:38pm. At birth she weighed 6 lbs, 6 oz and measured 20” tall.
We are very grateful to God who provided a very easy (by comparison!) and quick delivery. We were scheduled to go in the following day at 7:30 am for Maggy to be induced if she didn’t go into labor earlier. While we were OK with the induction, we would have rathered to forego that and were praying about that along with many of you. Maggy had been having irregular contractions, but they always went away.
Around 5:00 pm on Friday the 18th, she began recording her contractions again. They were about 14 minutes apart. By 7:00, they were about 9 minutes apart and we called the doctor. After getting the OK to go to the hospital, we packed up and headed in. She was admitted and after a brief check in Triage to confirm that she indeed was in labor, we were sent to Labor and Delivery. No sooner had the epidural been given and the contractions stopped! (According to the machine) The nurse set up the delivery table and got all ready to go and started a drip of Pitosin. After everything was ready, she was going to leave us and see if the contractions returned. But she decided one last check, and found the baby’s head almost out!
The doctor came in and after only one push, the baby was delivered! Daddy got to cut the cord and our 4th little one was officially ushered into our world! The remainder of the stay was pleasant and they released us at about 11:30 am on Sunday.
Maggy is resting comfortably and the whole family is very glad to have the new one! Thanks to all of you who have been praying for this to go smoothly. God has blessed us tremendously and we thank him for that!
David, Maggy, Joni Karina, Joshua, Jonathan and Jennifer
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2 comments:
Thanks for the whole story - I hadn't heard it all! God bless your family!
Many many many congratulations to you all! You have been very much looked forward to Jennifer, welcome into this world. Will be praying for you all with all the upcoming transitions. Love,
the Carpenters
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