Margo à la Maude

She's here! A week early and a bit by surprise, but Maude Euphrasie joined the family at 11:15 a.m., Saturday, August 23, weighing 8lbs 1oz.

YAHOO!













To make a long story short (like... a 34 hour long story), Donna's water broke at 01:00 on Friday, the midwife came to see us, and told us to make our way to the hospital for around 08:00. Contractions, posterior positioning, monitoring, penicillin, unplanned epidural, gut-wrenching pushing, and then there was Maude.




We thought her to be the spitting image of Margo right after birth, but as the hours pass, she's looking more like her own self, but definitely Margo's sister.

And the silly thing is that, with all the people around at or after the birth, there isn't a group shot of us.

We are tremendously thankful to our cousins, Maggie and Roger, who looked after Margo at our house for nearly the entire duration. We're also thankful to Donna's midwife, Suzanne, without whom, we would have been navigating alone the Montfort hospital "growing pains" from having opened a several new wings, including maternity, two days earlier. She also guided us through some hard times without ever imposing a decision on us.

This is the first of many posts on our new family. Be happy for us, because we feel like we have it all.

Except for a more appropriate name for the blog.

- Papa Michel

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