My Boy's Birthday

I  am immortalizing my oldest Boys Birthday , which is today, he is 45 a great milestone and one I remember well..... I was soooo overjoyed to be pregnant, both George and I were. We were on our way to making a family other then ourselves..my pregnancy went well I did all the right things and apart from feeling very sick in those early months all was well.....actually I had to give up work as I needed to travel by bus to the Salon where I worked as a hairdresser that trip ended up in me vomiting nearly each time...all to much. So work finished. I loved how my belly grew...My Mother told me that I walked like a 8 month pregnant lady at 6 weeks...I wanted the world to know that I was having a joyous occasion happening within me...funny girl I was !!!!! I can remember so vivedly when I first felt life...George and I had just moved from East Perth to Palmyra..it was a busy and tiring day...and in the early evening we were laying on the lawn out the front...I was on my stomach and I felt like I had a butterly within me....oh my gosh the joy we both felt that evening
In those days there was not a thing like ultrasounds etc...you just went on dates and the Dr. feeling whether you were right to deliver...My Dr. felt that I was overdue and so booked me into hospital to have my waters broken......the labour was long and hard I think that if you go to East Fremantle Maternity Hospital, you will find a stone pillar with teeth marks in it, in those days Husbands were not invited in to witness all the happenings like you being in intense and yucky pain .......the labour lasted 36 hours with a little break in between where it all stopped all together for about an hour.....only to begin with bearing down ready for the birth ...most unusual really.....Poor Jack was exhausted and so was I, his little heart started to give out midway to him being born and so all panic and an immediate cut was made and him pulled out......not like Katie where I was flying high on super something...but it was an experience that was felt...if you know what I mean...he needed some resuscitation but was alright.....I was told by the nursing staff that he was a bit prem.......he weighed 6.15lbs......I had many many stitches and vowed that I was NEVER having another baby !!!!
He was perfect in everyway..I loved him so much that at times my heart felt like it was going to burst.
I took him everywhere and loved looking after him...I showed him off to all...you would think that no one ever had a child before....I bet I drew a smile from many.
Jack has had many heartaches which he was innocent of, sometimes the adults that have children are children themselves and cause their most precious gifts
to experience life much harder then they should.
Such was my Boys experience.......
He is a Man now showing the world how to be a marvelous parent to his two boys, who he lives for....my heart is full of pride as I see him being a Father that anyone could be proud of.
It is an honour to call him Son. He is the most optimistic person other then my Tony I know...and I learn much from him, there is not much that gets him down maybe a kidney stone or two..that seems to have gone now... I love him with all my heart and wish him to meet a wonderful Lady and life...Tony and I think HE IS THE BEST EVER........