#a birth announced

[renee-writer]

Awake Chapter 132 A Birth Announced

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The Cullen’s have stopped several times to hunt. Carlisle and Jasper run together when Carlisle suddenly stops.  Jaz looks at him.

 

“I need to check my phone.” He doesn’t know why just knows he must. Seeing the missed call icon  from Edward and the flashing voice message one, he knows something has happened. When he hears his son’s frantic message, his face falls and Jaz picks up the wave of fear and distress coming off him.

 

“What is it?” The rest of the family has joined them. They all await his answer.

 

“Bella went into labor. Edward is frantic,” he hears Tanya ‘s quick intake of breath, “I have to get back there. Someone go by Billy’s and see if he has a way to contact Jacob.”

 

“I will go talk to Billy.” Alice offers.

 

“Good. Jasper, Tanya come with me. I will keep you guys informed.

 

Edward sits holding Faith while Bella sleeps. He can’t get over her, how beautiful she is, how incredible her birth was. How much peace he is in, a peace he hasn’t know since Bella made love to Jacob. Even then, it hadn’t  been this complete.

 

Carlisle, Jasper, and Tanya come running into the house a few minutes later. They stop dead at the sight of Edward and Faith. The feelings coming off him aren’t at all what Jasper expected. They confuse him.

 

“What happened?” Carlisle whispers as he takes Faith from him to check her out. He explains, from the moment he heard Bella cry out until they walked in.

 

“He did an incredible job.” Bella says from the bed.

 

“It sure sounds like it. Faith is doing great. The trouble getting her started breathing was probably due  to her slight prematurity. She is perfectly fine now.”

 

She breaths out in relief. He hands the baby to Tanya so he can check on Bella.

 

“No tears. I couldn’t have done it better myself.”

 

“I told you he was good “ Bella is smiling.

 

“You were lucky he was here.”

 

“No, she was blessed I was.” His father looks at him, stunned.

 

“Yes I was. Is someone trying to find Jake?”

 

Yes. Alice went to Billy’s.”

 

“Good.”

 

“Your daughter is stunning.” Tanya says as she hands her back to her mommy.

 

“Thank you. I think so.”

 

“Let me tell you, when I got that message from Edward, I wasn’t expecting such a good outcome.”

 

“I wasn’t either, at first. He was just so natural at it.”

 

“That wasn’t me. That was all God.”

 

“Is this my son, Edward Cullen, speaking?” Carlisle asks and Jasper starts to understand what he was picking up on.

 

“Yes, I didn’t get it at first. Seeing Faith ‘s birth, to participate in it, to breath life back into her… it was all so incredible, miraculous. There is no greater proof of God then that.

 

 ”Leah was there. She is telling Jacob now,” Alice walks in, “are Bella and the baby okay?”

 

“Come and see.” Bella invites.

 

“Wow. She is beautiful. May I hold her? Are you okay?”

 

“Yeah to both.” She takes her, cooing down at her before turning to her brother.

 

“You delivered her?”

 

“Yes. Then he got her breathing.”

 

At her stunned look, “Yes I did, God and I.”

 

“God and you?”

 

“Yes, delivering her changed how I see God. There is no way to deny He exists after that.”

 

“Bella!” Jacob calls out.

 

“I here baby. I am fine and so is our daughter thanks to God and Edward.”

 

“Meet your daughter.” Alice places her in his arms.

 

He stares at her. “Hi Faith Renee. You are so beautiful.”

 

“Yes she is.”

 

“Are you okay, really?”

 

“I am great. Edward was incredible. He knew just what to do.”

 

“Edward, thank you. Sounds like I owe you my wife and daughter.”

 

“No, I was just God’s hands in this.”

 

Jacob sinks down on the edge of tho bed. Carlisle laughs. “That was my reaction as well.”

 

“Okay. I need the whole story.”

 

Edward and Bella fill him in.  When they are done, silence reigns for a few minutes as everyone takes it in.

 

“Well, those are skills I didn’t know you had.”

 

“Me either Tanya, until I had to have them.”

[lazylittledragon]

I'm imagining Kit's middle name as either some behemoth 20 letter tongue twister *or* a single syllable. No in-between.

oh it’s absolutely an intricate, impossible to spell, ancient elvish translation of “wheelbarrow” or something

[aryomengrande]

왜 이런 내 맘을 아직 몰라? happy birthday, shinichiro ! (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)♡

[rebirthgarments]

Baby Hind was born on May 9, 2024, her parents Sanad and Malak were married last July and have been in displacement. They need money for formula, diapers and survival. My comrades Brenda and Ashley started her GFM 2 weeks ago and they have only gotten $200 USD so far, which is hardly enough to buy a little formula (it might actually not be enough, because as we learned from Seraj it costs $67 USD for a cup of water as of today).

bit.ly/hindsbabyshower

Please send some support their way, especially because it was just Mother’s Day in the US yesterday! They are just starting out with 4 day old baby Hind and need all the support you can send!

Comment your childhood comfort toy below and share to your networks!

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[thebeigelunatics]

in 'real tigers' when lamb said to the kids after standish went missing, "i’m starting to think we should go on one of those team-bonding courses. though maybe we should wait till your mother hen’s back in the coop." and when he was grappling with river's fuck up at the park, "and while he could contemplate a future without river cartwright in it with a degree of equanimity, catherine standish would have plenty to say on the subject if she ever turned up. and lamb had learned long ago not to piss off whoever made your morning tea." well at least daddy lamb knows who actually runs slough house 😌

[nomsfaultau]

Emergency Meeting

“It has come to my attention that Technoblade’s last…escapade ended poorly. So I have called this staff meeting to clarify my intent.”

“Look at him. Amazing. The best kid I could ask for.”

“Questions? …No? Excellent. As a reminder quarterly reviews are next month. Dismissed.”

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

We love one (1) glowy-eyed angel of vengeance. It's so great when she gets to be terrifying and go on a warpath.

Bonus: soft version, reserved for when the love of your life returns to you, against all odds, after a century of death.

[astranauticus]

stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir

(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)

But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?

so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me

in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone

and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age

but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind

and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind

(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)

"I just see this place as my home"

so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3

[fundieinfoplace]

Breaking News: Baby Helferich is here

Allison Helferich and her husband Seth welcomed their 3rd child a girl named Amelia Marie. Baby joins siblings Malachi and Gemma on Aug 28th 2024.

28th is a Placer date until date is fully known

[thefundiedata]

Meet William Daniel Bates!

On 30th July 2024, Tiffany and Lawson Bates released the first part of their birth vlog introducing their son, William Daniel Bates, to the world. William is the couple's first child after a miscarriage in September 2023. William was born on 19th July 2024, eleven days early.

Pregnancy Announcement

The couple announced the pregnancy on 5th March 2024. With a due date of 30th July 2024, William was announced on Day 144 (20 weeks, 4 days) of pregnancy.

Gender Reveal

Tiffany and Lawson shared the gender reveal they had done much earlier in the pregnancy (Tiffany hashtagged the post with 19 weeks) on 19th May 2024. This was on Day 219 (31 Weeks, 2 days) of pregnancy.

Name Reveal

The couple released a YouTube video on 26th July 2024 sharing William's name. They said Lawson had chosen the first name and Tiffany had chosen the middle name. William is named after his father, William "Lawson" Bates, and his paternal grandfather William Gilvin "Gil" Bates Jr. His middle name was chosen in honour of his maternal grandfather, Daniel Espensen.

The video announcing William's name was released after his birth but before his birth announcement.

Effect on the Data

As a pregnancy after a loss, William's birth affects the post-loss spacing data set. Prior to William's arrival, the mean of this data set stood at 428 days and the median at 365 days. William arrived 400 days after Tiffany's 2023 miscarriage. After William's arrival, the mean stood at 426 days (-2 days) and the median at 365 days (no change).

The typical range for a post-loss spacing is now 270 - 582 days.

So What's Next? The predicted spacing for Bates-Espensen 2 is not affected by William's spacing but by their first pregnancy that sadly ended in loss. This pregnancy had an estimated spacing of 738 days after their marriage.

Taking this and multiplying it by the second child multiplier, Tiffany and Lawson's predicted second spacing is 1181 days. Assuming they still announce late, these are the predicted dates for Baby 2.

Pregnancy Announcement: 13th August 2026 Gender Reveal: 27th October 2026 Birth Date: 16th December 2026 Due Date: 27th December 2026

Congratulations to the family!

[vadergf]

Going to be 9 months without a peep from corpse....I miss him so much

[johnschneiderblog]

Just what we needed

Having written obituaries on a good handful of hardware stores I’ve known and loved (victims, mainly, of big-box stores) I’m happy to post this birth announcement:

In recent days Midwest Ace came to the intersection of Jolly and Okemos roads, just a mile and a half from our house. I made my first visit Saturday and found a well-stocked store run by friendly, helpful clerks.

It’s not exactly a mom-and-pop hardware. No warped wooden floors, no dog snoozing behind the cash register, no dusty shelves of arcane merchandise. And they don’t sharpen chainsaw chains.

But after a stroll among the aisles I would say it’s 90-percent there, including that single bolt you need, instead of the six sealed in a plastic blister at Home Depot.

I’ll be back.

[nostalgia-tblr]

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

What I want is a water birth with midwives in a hospital and it’s stupid that individualized birth plans like this aren’t an option everywhere

Hospitals care about bottom line and control, not what’s actually best for moms and babies

[countingandsnarkingon]

It’s Baby Month for Nurie Keller, Priscilla Waller and Tiffany Bates. I expect Birth announcements from Nurie and Priscilla but, won’t be the least bit shocked if Baby Bates is an August Baby. I’ll also assume we’ll get a birth announcement Kristen Clark’s miracle baby girl any day now

[via-fm]

I have about 4 memes for when they DO announce mirador so brace yourselves for that