Day 5 of 10

My first mother's day

My first mother's day, I was pregnant.  Steven was born 4 days later. His delivery was not an easy one.  We went from a normal delivery to an emergency c-section in the blink of an eye.  The OR was full of doctors, nurses, and neonatalogists.   When Steven arrived he was grey and grunting. Two things that are awful in a newborn baby. I was so scared and so worried that something was going to happen to my son. I remember Jared and I just sitting there praying that Steven would be okay.  After he examined the baby, the neonatalogist asked Jared if he wanted to come over and hold the baby.  Jared who had never held a baby went right over and picked that monkey up and just loved him. He then walked over to me,  put Steven by me and said "talk to him Carla he knows your voice." That was one of the sweetest things my love ever did for me.
After five days in the hospital we came home. We quickly settled into our new normal and within days I could not remember what it was like without Steven.  For my birthday a few weeks later,  Jared surprised me with a gift certificate to the spa. But the best gift was not the gift certificate, it was how he had packaged it. He took the spa gift bag  and wrote on it happy Mother's Day and happy birthday and then he put the baby's hand print on it.  I still have that gift bag to this day. It was just such a thoughtful and sweet gesture for him to do to make my first Mother's Day and my first birthday as a mom just a little extra special.