Typically our kids are groaning about the lack of things to do and the same thing to eat...fish, fish and more fish. We kind of dread the drive, but this trip was anything but dreadful and we ate far more than just fish!
The first meal was a banquet of jungle game for lunch(we’ll just call it chicken) but it was tasty! We headed down to the river and the kids immediately got their river fix!
We spent the rest of the day visiting old friends from the community and towards the end of the afternoon, we had discipleship scheduled for the evening. Clyde went with our friend, Pataca, who is doing a young mens group ages 13-17. I invited a sweet friend, named Nenhina from Solidade(about 3 hours down river) to our house to study with me. She was waiting for her husband to travel up river and get her in their boat, but didn’t arrive on time. Not unusual for river living.
Our studies went well and we headed to bed about 11pm. At midnight the adventure began!
A knock at the door and Neninha’s voice “Pastor, Pastor, George’s wife is in labor”. We hadn’t been living there so we kind of woke up out of a dead sleep trying to remember if she was even pregnant. In deed she was going into her last month of pregnancy and was planning to head to town that Friday to wait the birth of the baby.
Clyde and I got dressed and headed in the car to visit George and his laboring wife to see how far along she was and hoping we could just drive home and wait it out and maybe take her in the morning. We arrived at their place lit by nothing but a canister and wick with diesel that illuminated the main room. Jocy, George’s wife, was dressed and had her bags packed. She was ready. I felt her tummy and it was tight, but still hard to know if it was emergency! We all stood around for a few minutes expecting her to be panting and unconsolable. I asked her to tell me when her next contraction came so I could time them. She got her bag and sat down on the couch looking a little bit tense but fairly relaxed at the same time. I asked her if she had a contraction and she told me yes. Well, we all kind of took the plunge and decided to have Nehinha go along for support and George. They also had a little one about 1 1/2 yrs old. She was sleeping soundly in a hammock and was quickly whisked away by an auntie to her house for the time being!
We drove back to our house to drop me off and grab some coffee for the long haul that would for sure take more than 3 hours since it was dark. We prayed for Jocy and the baby and I waved and they drove off!
I crawled back in my hammock and prayed for the next few hours as I couldn’t stop the adrenaline and thoughts of that road at that hour and lack of sleep.
I woke up the next morning and told the kids where Dad was. They were shocked.
Word came later in the morning about 8am that there was a message on the radio station from Clyde that the baby was born and mom was fine and he’d be back by noon.
My hubby is an iron man! He slept maybe 2 hours and hit the road again so that we wouldn’t be too late on our river trip we had planned.
He arrived on time. The details came out that Jocy had the baby about 2 hours after they left in the back seat of our truck!!! It was quick, the baby was healthy and they waited to cut the cord when they arrived at the hospital. She was a champ! Clyde was trying to catch it all on film and it was just an amazing opener to our time out in Maribel.
God knew we would be there. There was no other transportation for her, baby was healthy as was mom! God was glorified by this couple as they knew the challenges that could of occurred!
Ana Beatrice is a beautiful baby girl and will have quite the story to tell!
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Wow! You guys have such cool stories! Amazing. Congrats to all. :)
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