our daughter

She will be one week old tomorrow night, Thursday at 9:05pm. Thank you for prayers. After using castor oil, black and blue cohash and having my membranes stripped while in early labor the contractions began getting slightly painful around 5 pm. The labor although extremely intense was extremely quick(5 hours--with 2 hours of contractions with very few breaks), and so my body doesn't have to recover as much as it did with the first two (42 hours and 15 hours of hard labor). Focusing on the entrance(doors) of the Shrine of Baha'u'llah in my mind's eye and saying "...prepare the means...make straight the path...open Thou the doors..." The baby came out in 3 pushes(15 minutes(about) after contemplating an epidural): head, shoulders, placenta. When focusing on the prayers the pain was localized, whereas the pain when I wanted to give up was throughout my whole body and not tolerable...so as a needed defense I recited "Allah'u'Abha" in my mind and outloud to process this transition from the womb to the outside world.
It was love at first sight...my little girl. She was 8 lbs, 5 oz, and 20 inches long. Her name comes from my favorite marriage prayer which refers to coral and pearls...
Marjan Pearl
Marjan is coral in Persian, and with slight variations coral in Gaelic (Marjean) and an African language (Marjani) which was not disclosed in my research.

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sashwee said…
Welcome to the world Marjan Pearl.
Warmest love,
Auntie Selvi
5/19/2005 11:00 AM
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