O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your prescence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there, if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake I am still with you.
Psalm 139.1-18
First moments with Autumn.
The doctor (who arrived shortly after the birth) had to convince this nurse to stop wrapping, swaddling and dressing Autumn, and to hand her back to her eager parents who were still in the bath. She was just very keen to do her job!
Labour: 2.5 hours! Weight: 3.2 kg/7 pounds Length: 53cm
This is our wonderful friend (and midwife in Australia) Lynley who did all manner of things to support us. She drove us to the hospital and was pulled over for (carefully) running a red. She protested that there was a lady in the back about to give birth, the policeman took one look at me and waved her on: jangan diulangi! don't do it again! She also kept one hand ready to catch as I was getting into the bath, whilst taking excellent photos with the other.
Two of the bidans (midwives) who helped Autumn into the world.
The lovely birthing room where it all happened.
The doctor (left) trains the midwives in some of the details.
After Autumn was checked and weighed and I was stitched (ouch!) and showered, we moved to a recovery suite to relax for the rest of the day and that night.
The boys get their first glimpse.
Reuben checks out his new competition.
Soren thinks his new sister is lovely.
The brilliant babysitting crew.
Hooray!
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