Christopher Robert Tracy II Presented By Nurse 12/17/2008 Paradise Valley, AZ.
Later on in the day, after Chris JR's birth, I answered an email from a friend who was inquiring about the birth. This is what I wrote:
Everything went well with my daughter Christine’s C-section birth. A little past 8:00 a.m. out came an 8LB 14OZ baby boy with a length of 21 inches and a head diameter of 15”. His name is Christopher Robert Tracy Jr. When it came down to it the whole affair of his birth was miraculous: Christine had a dream a week or two ago where she visualized her baby with the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck and it wasn’t moving. She told her doctor about. As it turned out, when they opened Christine up they discovered the baby did have the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck – TWICE. His hands and feet were purple when he first came out and were for a couple of hours afterward. My experience of what I saw was amazing. I got to see little Chris as he was being cleaned up in the nursery. When I first saw him I was so thankful to Jesus for bringing this little man into our lives that I felt a tremendous feeling in my heart just looking at him in glimpses through the people around him and then when the nurse lifted him up in the air and presented him to us straight ahead in his naked newness I was so overwhelmed that I was laughing and crying at the same time and my mind just went right to heaven for an instant. Everything happened beyond our hopes because not only did we get a beautiful healthy baby boy but we had the Grace that comes from God through that little baby instilled into our hearts. Today was a blessed day!
I put together a slide show movie of the photos taken that day and uploaded it to YouTube. Here it is in this post. (Make sure you have your computer sound on so you can hear the audio track).
