Before we knew it was going to be a boy, I was kinda on the edge of not healthy thinking and wanting a girl, bad. At one point Grant brought up the name Gracelynn if it was a girl....i was soooo against that name.
The evening i found out it was no longer it, but a Boy for sure, I had a name come across my mind on the way home. How about Graeson! Now is that just too silly. I was completely against Gracelynn, but hey... what about Graeson. So i believe there is only one answer, but God inspired... I didn't even put those two together until a while later!
The day came for his arrival... contractions that i knew would stay and increase came around 930pm on the 26th. The experience of feeling and moving and walking through contractions is quite different than that of being drugged up and imobolized on a hospital bed with needles, tubes, and wires connecting you to one place. At the time...I am not one to like childbirthing. Looking back, I did like this one way better. I still dont want to birth any more children, but this was an amazing birth! We bought a tub to birth in. I was dissapointed though. I was at 6cm at one point and my midwife decided i could get in the bath if I wanted. Reading up on this prior, I had expected to progress to what i needed. But low and behold... i was in there for 2 hours with continual contractions and had only progressed to 7cm. Sucky! At that we all agreed, in my hesitation, to brake my water... That does get the ball rolling, so to speak! I then went into heavy labor right away and birthed Graeson within 45minutes! I was glad the progress moved along so swiftly. I was not glad it took 15minutes just from crowning, to his head being fully out!
I made it, Graeson made it and Grant helped along the way too! We had a joke early on between Grant and myself. I once said "wouldn't be funny if we got some major Portuguese throw-back baby?" Grant hadn't thought much of that at the time. One day we were watching the news at someones house, when a black woman came on. Grant goes on to say.. " Oh like her..." referring to what i had said. Funny Grant, Yes my Portuguese heritage means Black At the time it was funny, but then I talked with someone who knows their history! Portugal was very big in the slave trading market. Back when slavery was being abolished, many slaves became apart of peoples families and intermarried between the different people. So, now in fact I just might have black or who ever else in my heritage. I have been having trouble finding my heritage by the way.. if you know any ideas... let me know, thanks ( John Dunphy was my father's biological, and one of his parents was full Portuguese)
And out came Graeson, with his Brown hair and Brown eyes, with olive toned skin! I love my two boys
so much. There is nothing that could replace the love i have for them! I am so priviledged God has given me two boys to raise up in God's Kingdom! I feel honored to be the mother of two incredible boys who bring Glory and Honor to God. Thats right... i love em' and i love God! awesomeness.
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