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The regular column will have to wait this week. As we were hunched over our computers Tuesday, just shortly after noon, there came a voice on the scanner telling the news that someone had just delivered a baby in a car.
I sat for a minute, the shivers of this extraordinary moment running up and down my spine, and then I decided “we need that story.”
Phone calls were made, a closer ear was laid to the scanner and soon my reporter Patrick, who had his pages mostly done, was on his way to Fairview Lakes Medical Center in Wyoming.
In a short time, I learned that a baby girl had made her entrance in the family’s red Highlander, with dad in the doctor’s seat, guided by the voice of the 911 operator. The story is told on our front page.
Well, happy birthday little Taylor Marie, welcome to the world. You certainly made a dull, gray Tuesday much brighter.
Your appearance in such a hurry made my day, why, it’ll probably make my week, following a disappointing holiday weekend of too much work and too much snow.
You brought the color to our black and white world, as the old snow that refuses to go away slowly melts in the dull, gray streets.
You probably brought much more than that to your parents, who will never forget your birth.
I have never experienced the excitement of delivering a baby who was so anxious to come into this world that the moment of delivery was anything but planned.
In fact, my first daughter gave me over 24 hours to get used to the idea that she was going to appear. Subsequent deliveries were not as lengthy, but I certainly had time to get to the hospital.
But, I’ve known others whose little darlings are in a rush to get here and who have narrowly missed delivery in various places. My husband’s niece, being one such child back some 30-plus years ago.
Anyway, we’re delighted here at the Post Review to have been a teeny part of this very special day. In church we sing a song that goes, “I was there to hear your borning cry.....”
Well, we almost were and what a wonderful day it became.
So again, happy birthday little girl. When mom and dad get their lives back together, tell them to come on in for a free subscription to the Post Review.
And to the new daddy:
“One of the greatest
discoveries a man makes,
one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”
-Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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