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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
A Father Writes to His New Baby
By Gregory Keer
nd on paper all the moments of your new life.
Of course, some of that recording got me in trouble during your mother's labor. Minutes after Mommy woke me to announce, "I think my water broke," I picked up my red composition book to write, "Finally, I get to rush to the hospital in the middle of the night – just like the movies." You see, Benjamin (now 6) and Jacob (3) took their sweet time in leaving the womb. You were in such a hurry, you started the birth process almost two weeks before your due date.
Mommy laughed at my scribbling in the journal, but I couldn't stop writing until Grandma showed up at 2:30 a.m. to babysit your brothers so we could leave. A split second after I parked at the medical center, Mommy speed-waddled toward the hospital, worried you might pop out before she got to a delivery room.
Things moved so fast that, by the time the nurse (at 3:50 a.m.) checked to see how you were progressing, you were halfway to coming out. Mommy got so excited that she declined the usual pain medication. Papa and Nana, looking tired but happy, came to provide moral support. I kept taking notes in the red journal if only to keep my nerves settled.
With a couple of hours to go before your introduction, Mommy and I talked over names. We had spent months imagining what you'd be like. Would you be a boy or a girl? Would you look like Mommy, Daddy, Benjamin, Jacob – the FedEx guy? Soon, we would find out and we wanted to have a name ready for you.
At 5:30 a.m., Dr. Perlow declared
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