The head profile...
...the left arm...
...the right foot....My sister, Ying who lives in Hawaii, just delivered her third kid, Dana! Hurray! Both mommy and daughter are doing just fine!
I got wind of the latest news about the new family member from my brother-in-law, Gene, who was just celebrating Thanksgiving with my sister, Ying, their son, Dylan and daughter, Emily!
Email from Gene
"In the midst of preparation for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday afternoon, Ying felt Dana give her a big kick and decided she needed to poop.
Famous last words.
At least this time, she noticed something felt different and we all decided we'd better leave to go check it out even though she had not had any contractions.
Ying checked into the hospital around 4:30pm and the nurse informed us we would not be returning home. She was still only 2cm dilated and felt no contractions, so I took Dylan & Emily downstairs to the hospital cafeteria for Thanksgiving dinner as they really wanted to stay for all the fireworks. A friend of Ying's also came by to stay with her.
Contractions started about 7:00pm, with Ying feeling no signficant discomfort till about 9:00am. Dana popped out around 10:30pm, Thanksgiving evening, with Emily and Dylan besides themselves with glee and cheer. They were both cuddling in my arms the whole time until the nurse passed a swaddled Dana to me. They then both took turns talking to her, singing to her, and of course, being siblings, teasing her and imitating her.
They were there the whole time except for about 5 minutes when the doctors all came in and Dana came out (I took them just outside). We went back in and they were great while they watched the doctors take care of the afterbirth and the stitching. Both Emily and Dylan were talking to Ying and the doctors while they were stitching, with Dylan and Emily both telling the doctor that they didn't think they would want to be doctors when they grow up because, as Emily's put it "it's yucky".
Dana came out at just over 5 lbs. and is in great shape, as is Mom."
Though we don't really celebrate it here in Singapore, Thanksgiving Day is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. I'd like to give thanks for the family members that have been harvested from my siblings! Yikes! I'm an auntie all over again! :)
Congrats to Gene, Ying, Dylan and Emily on the arrival of Dana!!! :)
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