Chmielewski_Family
Lo,Children are a Heritage of the Lord.
God's Grace.....
The birth story of Isabella Grace Chmielewski
Born unassisted at home in Daddy's arms
April 28th, 2007 at 3:55 am 7 LBS. 8 OZ. 20 IN. Long
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I praise the lord for answered prayer and delieverence of the birth He gave to me.
I am truly in awe at His mercy He shown upon me..
He truly blessed me I went from stage one to pushing out the baby.
I did not have any 60-90 minute contractions.
I know he delievered me we prayed everyday for him to give me a fast
and painless birth and he did..I thank God for that!
We (again) did not have time for picture taking of the birth,
I woke up at 2:30 to the feeling of contractions..Hmm
I thought as I laid there half awake wondering is this it? So I
Prayed to God asking him to give me peace and mercy through the birth if this was it.
To keep me in his hands Honestly I pleaded with God for a good 15 minutes before I
got out of bed..I went to the bathroom to see if there were the tried and true signs for me
in labor no there was not I had no bloody show no BM no vomitting...hmm well
maybe this is not it, I thought.
So I started standing up from the toliet and walked the stairs a couple of times.
AS I came up the stairs the last time I knew this must be it but I think I am in for a Loong labor
so I started getting out the sheets and towels from the closet and laying them down on the floor
something to do as I was having the contractions with the noise of that my husband woke up and looked
at me I was into my breathing and just gave him the thumbs up... so he woke up and came over to me and asked
me the questions of have done one of the three things I said no but the contractions are here and I even said I was sorry for
waking him up and to go back to bed I would wake him if anything changed. He decided to stay up with me "see how I do"
within 15 minutes I ended up on knees and hands with my head resting into the side
of my bed. I felt the desire to push and Mark asked me "are you pushing?" I answered yes by shaking my head. I am very quiet and to myself when I am in Labor So he knew to ask and go with it...I pushed three times hard and the first push out came Bm! Mark wiped it up and then another push out came water and head and the next one Mark recieved our baby! I remember asking him "what is it?" over three times! He finally said "it is a Chmielewski" and we laughed then he told me it was a GIRL! I was so thrilled and thankful to the Lord for showing me mercy and allowing me to recive his grace through birthing His new creation.. How amazing our God is...He does gives us grace... well b/c of how she came out she was behind so I need to get up off the floor so I could see her , in time was able to get up and when I did Mark and I commented on how there is no blood! Zero.. We were shocked never seen that before...Praise God...!!! I mangaged to get into the bed and he handed me the baby then went to get Sarah our daughter
to cut the cord During that time I laid in bed praising God and being in Awe that he gave such as I just had!
I used our camera to do the movie clip part that I shared I was holding Isabella in the
bed as they did that.
.Then We cleaned her up a bit she had alot of varnix she was covered in white!
Mark wrapped her in a blanket. ( the yellow one in the pictures)
Sarah held her while I stood up to deliever the placenta and after that Mark went to get our older boys..They were sad that they missed it.
I was too for them I know how much
Jacob wanted to record the birth, He missed our last birth as well and many times I think back to this birth and as I was going down the stairs I had wished I went to their room and woke them up. I took an herb bath with her . The herb bath felt so wonderful!!! I stayed in there for almost an hour! and then Mark did all the stats while I laid in bed with underpads on the bed and baby had her first Bm in the yellow blanket we had not diapered her yet! She was ready to go! :) I drank water "Ice cold" Yummy! The boys ran the towels they had going in the dryer up to me and covered my belly with them ahhh they felt soo nice! I took a few pictures of Mark doing the measuring and weighing . He then made me a traditional Bagel egg and cheese sandwhich and a glass of milk.( I have had that after all my babies) Every thing went well except for the Hemroids I recieved from the pushing. That was painful and lasted two weeks. Isabella has been a wonderful baby she is 25 days old today as I write this and is now 21 inches long and 9 pounds! Growing fast and I am trying daily to soak it up! I am truly blessed indeed... Carri~Momma to eight!!!
