January 18, 2010
Adam Robert Jouvert
Adam Robert Jouvert was born on January 16th, 2010 at 9:07 am in New York City to the proud parents Monika and Victor Jouvert. He weighted in at 7 lbs 6 oz or 3.46544 kg and measured 20.5 " = 52.07 cm in length.
Having seen the births of my other children and partially biassedly attesting to their miraculousness can say say that on this particular day the miracle to be seen was my beautiful better half Monika doing everything she could to deliver our second son into this world.
If I didn't hold her in total awe then now she holds god like status. I will surely use the phrase "you have no idea what your mom has done for you (substitute and exemplary phrase of choice)" to our children when they inevitably but surely misbehave and/or disrespect us.
Monika's tenacity and determination that I've become oh so familiar with were key to making this vbac a success. From the beginning the odds were against us and at every stage we were met with doubt and words of slight discouragement and even at points people making faces and shaking their heads as if to question why in the world of scheduled c-sections would anyone want to do that. Don't get me wrong they really applaud and encourage the idea of attempting a vbac but somehow they "warn" you repeatedly about the dangers. Hospitals just want to cut down on any risks! They could equal unsuccessful births, surgeries. They'd just as well have every baby cut out. Nice and easy no risk.
The residing Obyg at the hospital was quick to give us a shruggingly 40% chance of success as well as a release form listing all the possible horrors that could occur attempting a vbac birth. For those that haven't googled that yet its and acronym for vaginal birth after cesarean. Noah our first son was breech and after atempting an inversion was delivered via cesarian delivery aka c-section.
So to make long story shorter in the end Monika's reading up on this, the class we took, the prewritten and submitted birth plan and the countless discussions that we had about various scenarios plus Monika's tremendous will and endurance triumphed.
Posted by Victor at 10:55 PM | Comments (8)
March 05, 2008
13yrs and 5months
Victoria and Noah, my children,a piece of me that will continue in this world after I am gone. Men tend to like these kind of grandiose ideal thoughts. The one thing I love about being a father is that there is no faking it. All you have to do is be there and give. As long as you do that they will return it 10 fold. The joy I recieve from being a Father is like nothing in the world. I hope that I can be the father that these two angels deserve. The time goes by fast I want to enjoy every moment with them.
Posted by Victor at 10:48 PM | Comments (2)
October 12, 2007
Oma und Opa Wunderer
Monika's parents are here to see their first grandson, Noah. Grandpa E and Grandma Inez came over to meet with Oma und Opa Wunderer(Briggite and Robert) These are such great times with everyone coming to celebrate the birth of Noah and to meet him. Here are some photos.
Posted by Victor at 09:52 PM | Comments (0)
October 04, 2007
Grandpa, Grandma & Grandma...???
Noah Efrain is very fortunate because he has lots of grandma's. He has only two grandpas. Here are a picture of two of his grandma's. Grandma Inez(my dad's wife) and Grandma Agu (my dad's mom who raised me.) There is a picture of Grandpa E ( My dad who raised me.) too.
Posted by Victor at 11:09 PM | Comments (1)
May 23, 2007
Allison my sister, Christian my nephew & Lee my mom back in the day
A few weeks ago my sister came to visit with her new baby Christian and her daughter Brooke. It was such a great visit. Not to mention that Allison brought tons of maternity clothes for Monika! What a lifesaver that was because Monika was going through hell trying to find something to wear.
Allison and me didn't always know each other. We didn't meet until I was 15 years old when our aunt Helen brought Alison to my house around thanksgiving day. Any now we don't see each other nearly enough but as our mom has taught us its never too late. So I hope that we see each other more. At least with technology we keep in touch more with email and My Space. So Alice had this photo that she carries with her of our Mom when she was younger. I think its a great picture.
Posted by Victor at 11:16 PM | Comments (1)