Well, Im a new father! On July 3, 2008 at ten minutes to 9:00 in the morning my little princess was born. Apparently she didn't want to come out, as what was supposed to be a 5 minute extraction, took about 20 minutes due to her being so high up in Steph's abdomen (she hadn't dropped yet) and the doctors having a difficult time gripping Mad's head (the anesthesiologist said is was like the docs trying to grip a wet basketball). Since they couldn't get a grip, they chose to use the vacuum. They tried with that dumb vacuum at least 10 times before tossing it out due to it's persistant malfunctioning. They had the nurses break out a brand new one and out she came on the very first attempt. Although she was covered in blood and caked in this white gunk... she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. When she cried out for the very first time, her mother and I glanced at each other with grins the size of the Grand Canyon and both of us cried at hearing the most beautiful sound in the world.
Since then, Steph and I have been learning a ton every day and loving every minute of it. Madeline has her days and nights flip flopped, but we're working that out one day (and night) at a time.
From the moment Steph told me she was pregnant I was more convinced than ever that children were a true miracle. But this last Wednesday this idea was driven home to a whole new level. Mads had developed an eye infection on Monday and Tuesday, to the point where her eye was sealed shut with an orange gunk and was very swollen. So, we made a docs appointment (Mad's first) for Wednesday. We're sitting in the waiting room of the office and I received a phone call from my friend, and mentor, Nick Saltas. I told him what we were doing and what Mad's issue was. He told me a story about when he and his wife, Karin, had their first child in South Africa. Karin's midwife told her that whenever any of her children got an eye infection she should "squirt" breast milk on the eye and it should clear it up. When I heard this info., I laughed heartily and told him he was nuts. He reassured me he was serious and that this treatment has been used on all three of his girls with amazingly positive results. We hung up and I told Steph about the proposed treatment and we both got a good laugh.
Five minutes later we were in the exam room and the doc verified that it was, in fact, an eye infection (didn't take a genius to figure that one out). She immediately turned to us and asked if Steph had tried putting any breast milk in her eye yet. We both just about fell out of our chairs! She told us that she wanted us to put breast milk on Mad's eye each time she was fed for the next three days and if that didn't take care of the problem to fill the prescription she would give us before we left.
Well, in less than 48 hours, the eye had completely cleared up and the swelling abated. Who would have guessed!!! Amazing! Anyone who doesn't believe that God created us is ignoring facts that are more obvious than the sun in the sky. And that creation is so intricate and perfect that I'm more amazed each day. We truly are created in His image.
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