10/18/2026
Welcome, Baby Boy! đź’™
7lbs 12oz
Your father called in the watches of the night. “Her water just broke!” he joyfully announced with some hesitation mixed in. I could hear your mother breathe beside him, smiling as she told me how she was feeling.
I immediately grabbed my scrubs as we hung up with a plan for your father to call me back. I didn’t even have them on when he called me back. “Colleen. They are intense and I think you should come now.”
“Alright! I want to be there!”
Your grandmother and father set up the birth tub and could tell things were moving fast. When I arrived, your mother and father were holding onto one another. Your father leaned over the tub and was the anchor she so needed when the waves of contractions came. Her breath was steady and all we could hear. You and your mother were working excellently together. Your mother’s doula joined the room minutes later as your mother’s breath changed and your full, beautiful head of hair slowly entered the pool; then your sweet face; and moments later, you were picked up by your mother and father together. They took you in and through tears of joy and strength announced that you were a BOY!
Your cry filled the room as your family rejoiced over you and took you in for the first time.
Your mother got her VBAC and your siblings have a delightful surprise as they wake this morning. Also, little man, your midwife, for the first time ever, have a little birthday buddy! Happy birthday to us!
May the Lord bless you and keep you, Little One!
Doula extraordinaire: Upper Room Birth Doula of East Texas
Right hand midwife: Laura Drew Mroz