New parents with a baby!

We would finally like to introduce to you our son... Lorenzo! 

  

It was a very exciting appointment with the doctor on the 4th October, as we went for a routine check up but with the idea in mind to make a decision... Lorenzo decided he wanted to stay inside mummy’s tummy more than 9 months so stayed breech! Since he wouldn’t turn or prepare for birth the doctor suggested a C-section. We agreed.... this decision was made at 4:30pm and at 7pm the same day Lorenzo was born! Not what we had imagined when we went to the appointment!! But everything went well and after 9 months of waiting we could meet our son! What a great surprise on the 4th October!

We stayed in the hospital 2 nights and as I was recovering well and Lorenzo was healthy and well we could leave and return home. We are very thankful looking back at the decision we made to go private. After a visit to the maternity ward in the free public hospital a number of months ago, I had returned home in tears... the set up, lack of privacy and the idea that I may not even be able to have Nico stay with me after the baby was born if there was no room in the packed wards was too much to bear! Praying together we felt peace that God would provide the money we needed to go private... He did! It was such an amazing experience to have a doctor we knew (having check ups with her in the last month of pregnancy), to be in a hospital that is well organised, to have a room just for me, Nico and the baby, etc etc was such a blessing! God is so good! He knows us so well and knows just what we need. We are so thankful to each of you who offered money to help towards the cost, thank you for being such a huge blessing in our lives!

As the doctor told us, “when a baby is born, parents are also born!” She told us to stay calm and remember that just as he is new we are also new to our role as parents! Great advice! 

The first weeks were a little rocky, although Lorenzo is such an easy going baby, very chilled and likes to sleep! But he wasn’t feeding enough... we would wake him to feed but then he was annoyed we had woke him and wouldn’t feed well! So turned out he wasn’t gaining weight. After finally meeting with a paediatrician she suggested topping him up with a little formula. It worked. He started gaining weight and since then has been doing really well.

So now we have been adjusting and adapting well to life as three! It’s definitely different, but what a blessing to have a little baby boy to love and care for. We are so thankful for this little blessing that God has given us!

Another blessing is the arrival of my parents! They arrived and have loved having cuddles with Lorenzo, playing with him, changing dirty nappies and making him smile! Along with that they have been cooking, doing dishes, cleaning and taking really good care of us. My dad has even found a few little projects to do around the Rock House. It is so nice to have them here. We also look forward to the end of December when Nico’s parents will also come to meet Lorenzo. Until now the rest of our families have been spending time looking at Lorenzo on skype!

 

Thank you again for your prayers, for your gifts and for your love. We have been overwhelmed with such great support from home. Please continue to pray for us as we continue to learn to be parents, and for Lorenzo, that he will grow and thrive. Thank you