By Emily [with permission]
This is Emily, Jill’s sister, writing to tell you that Jill and Byron have a beautiful new son, Aidan Gabriel. Aidan is gorgeous and everyone is doing well.
After 48 hours of labor (yes, that says 48), Aidan was born at 8:59 PM, Friday, September 19. He weighs a perfect 8 pounds and is 20 inches long. After all that labor, you’ll be happy to hear that Aidan arrived through a non-surgical delivery. He is a perfectly healthy boy. Both Mom and baby are doing very well.
All this in a hospital that had no water due to the hurricane that hit Virginia Thursday. In fact, the hospital had cancelled elective deliveries, so they had the floor to themselves. The strange part of this story is that Jill was also born in a building with no running water. She was delivered at home and the water in the house had been turned off to fix a leak. (There’s a story Aidan will get sick of hearing!)
Aidan is a cutie-pie with sandy hair, blue eyes, and a small cleft in his chin (like his daddy). He seems very curious and was eager to look around and meet his family members. The whole time we were there, he made sweet, soft cooing noises. (Just imagine the story he was telling after 48 hours of contractions!)
Mack has already talked to his mommy tonight and can’t wait to head to the hospital first thing tomorrow morning to check out his new sib.
To quote Jill, “Thanks for all your warm wishes and loving thoughts during the last nine months. We can’t wait to introduce everyone to our new little guy. — Love, Jill, Byron and Big Brother Mack”