Merry Christmas

 My parents didn't stay for Christmas for they were there for the ward Christmas'party.

That Christmas, Julia definitely was our present!

Baby Julia

 Babies sleep and scream.

It is quite tiring...

A Name and a Blessing

Julia was blessed on November 26. Keld spoke in English and French as my parents were still there. We named her Julia because it's the first name we both liked. It's also one of Erika's names! Her middle name is Paulette, after my mom. 

There were 4 generations.

Julia's Birth

 Julia was born on November 4th at 4.41pm, 8 pounds 8ounces for 19.685 inches.

On the Friday, I had contractions early in the morning but they stopped and so Keld went to work. The next day, the same thing was happening. I had contractions but I thought they would stop like the day before, so Keld went to work. He was exceptionally working on Saturday because of the elections. Grandpa and Special brought me and my mom to the hospital around 9. When Aunt Tina tracked down Keld (he had to surprise a polling station for an audit so he coudn't say exactly where he was going and of course, he had no cell phone), he came and joined us. He had plenty of time, Julia wasn't coming fast.

In fact, she was going too slow. I was losing too much blood and so the gynecologist tried to speed things up by using the vacuum and the forceps. 

We thought Keld would faint but he was fine and even cut the cord!

Finally a girl in the family ;) 

Did you see that? She was already sticking her tongue out for pictures...

Baby Shower

The ward organized a double baby shower, for me and for Heidi. I didn't know if I was going to have a boy or a girl whereas Heidi had already given birth to a boy.