It is my pleasure to introduce you to my nephew, henceforth known as "The Heir to the Throne Jr" unless I forget and blog him by his real name or the nickname my mom and I were discussing for him this morning. I'll keep you posted on that.

He was born last week, on Friday, at 4ish in the afternoonish and weighed a very whopping 5lbs 2oz. That's huge. There for awhile, we thought he was going to be 3 1/2lbs. Seriously. My sister's pregnancy didn't go quite the way we expected it to and we were sort of worried. OK a lot worried.

We spent a little more than a month wondering what was going to happen. It just about drove some of us crazy. (OK me, it almost drove ME crazy.) Now, I sit back and I think about the women who are pregnant in China and Burma, in the wake of horrible natural disasters. Imagine the worrying they are doing. Then I look at Afghanistan and Nepal and Darfur. The worry. My crazy worrying was nothing compared to what those families must go through during their entire pregnancy.

Afghanistan (video uploaded 2 years ago):

Nepal (one month ago):

Our days of worry are over. He's here, and he's perfect and tiny and apparently cries much more loudly than his big brother, "The Heir to the Throne Sr" did. He's also got a wee bit of jaundice but he is home and that's what matters. I've made my GlobalGiving donation in honor of his birth, as I said I would.

Now we are waiting patiently for "the twins" to arrive in a few months - my ex's side of the family and so far all looks good for us to see the arrival of two more healthy babies. We are blessed. And when these babies arrive, happy and healthy as we expect them to be, I'll make another donation that I hope will help ease just a few worries for other families. Pregnancy and childbirth shouldn't be full of worry. It just shouldn't.

~~Denise
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