Welcome to the world Baby Benjamin

My cousin Joleen is now a Mommy... which means my Aunt Barb- my Mom's twin sister0 is FINALLY a grandma!!! YAY!

Benjamin Hai Dror was born Thurs Oct 22, at 10:05am. He weighed 6lb 4oz and was 19 inches long.
My cousin was induced Wednesday night, but the cervadil actually triggered natural labor, so she was most definately roughing it "a la Natur-al" for several hours through the night and morning, until about 8:45 when she finally got an epidural. I got to the hospital at 9:45 and holy crap did she make it look easy! She literally only pushed 1 and 1/2 pushes and he pretty much fell out! I have never seen anything like it. Totally amazing.

Since I had the luxury (NOT!!!!) of having a C-sec delivery, it was the first time that I was in the delivery room to see an actual delivery. WOW! One of God's true miracles!

AMEN!

8 days after he was born we all celebrated his brit... or circumcision, with a Jewish ceremony. Yehoram's parents came to the US from Israel to share and be part of this whole tradition. It was really neat to experience a different culture first hand. Luckily for little Benjamin, Joleen's Dr who just happened to be Jewish was able to perform the procedure with the rabbi present- but, since he IS a dr. He was able to use a numbing medication. I can not imagine how sad that would have been to hear a scream during that! luckily- he was numb, and none the wiser to the whole thing going on around him.