At long last I have a son.
My beautiful wife Lola gave birth to my firstborn on the night of April 13th, 2009 in St Elisabeth.
I have waited for a son for God knows how long. At this moment, time after time I can only smile at their lovely faces and wonder what have I done so right to deserve such a blessings.
Blessings do come in floods of happiness -that is what the Holy Bible tells us.
Now and forever, nobody can say any less than Abba Immanu'el to address myself, while Mama Immanuel to address my wife Lola.
Immanuel was born 4.2kg and with length of 52 centimeters.
Yes, Lola delivered him on caesarean section in St Elisabeth. Nobody can deliver such a big baby normally under the circumstances.
Little that we know about Immanuel problem arriving in this world. For we always check with dr. Zuherdy but found no problem prior to the last check.
Initially we were scheduled to have the birth on 23 February 2009 but after 2 weeks of induced birth nothing happens. Immanuel was not going anywhere, still playing and moving around but no sign of prenatal activities.
So when the time comes for our "2nd overdue obgyn check" the doctor gave 2 choices for us.
1. to go to operating room immediately and undergo Caesarean Section
2. to go to delivery room and induce birth by way of drug injection
Either way Immanuel's placenta has already turn white because of the increase in calcium.
But the clinch here: Immanuel for sure was tangled in his own abdominal cord. If Lola and I chose to induce his birth by drug injection, Immanuel would have been strangled to death on the delivery room.
But Lola my beautiful and daring wife, cried her heart out for 2 minutes and then bravely choose the Caesarean Section. Sitting beside her I was dumbfounded and tears welled up in my eyes.
We are not mentally prepared for this, absolutely not. People take 1 whole week to mentally prepare for any operation and on the last night before any operation people always 'fast' in order to remove gastric effect post operation.
But no, Lola bravely went back to the reception desk to check in for immediate operation and walked with me to the Emergency room in order to have the IV inserted into her vein.
Wincing from the pain, she was wheeled into the delivery room to prepare her for the Caesarean. Clothes bundled into her bags and all forms filled up, she was then given initial sedation there.
I said our prayers with Lola and Immanuel and then ask our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to have His will in this instance of our lives. Ending with the Lord's prayer I said let's get it on to Lola on the wheeled bed. It was 2100 hours Monday night on 13 April.
21.15 hours, dr. Zuherdy walked by and smiled to our stressed faces, sitting on the floor of that hospital. With me was my brother Edward and both my mother Ria and my mother in law Risma. All silenced and feel daunted. All our hearts in our mouth. Nobody in their right mind was up to this, we were coming in for check up and instead prolonged into the night waiting outside the operating room.
Come 21.45 an empty baby box was wheeled into the operating room. Sure enough, we run up and find a beautiful and big baby boy was there sleeping. "This is Mrs. Lola's baby" said the nurse. "You got that right, sister - that is my baby boy there". Ehehehe, Immanuel was fast asleep, exhausted after the operation. Cleaned up afterwards we could not believe how handsome he is, there in the baby room. Big boy, 4.2 kilos and 52 cm, shouting at the top of his lungs ordering the nurse to bring him his milk on the double.
Meanwhile Lola was in the operating room for another 2 hours and it was 23oo hours when we received her outside the operating room, still heavily under anaesthetics and thus accompany her regaining consciousness in the ward. Not long, by 0200 she drowsily was asking me where Immanuel is sleeping to which I answered there in the next room but he shall be with us in the morning. Ah, she hold my hands, smiled her beautiful smile and said "I am so happy, we have a success and Immanuel is here with us, I am not going to sleep my husbang because I am so happy"
Now, 15 May 2009 Immanuel has passed his 1 month and he is learning to adjust his vision and enhance his hearing ability. Lola and I are so proud of our Immanuel. Such a handsome boy, such a genius, such a strong leader.
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God. Jesus Christ has answered our humble prayers.
Amen, amen and amen
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