Tiernan's Birth!

Hi Sweet Friends,
Although I have been seen at different events, I am still trying to dissolve these blood clots, so that I can be off of Coumadin...a dangerous drug my father was on and I hated it! Here I am, on the same drug! I just came back from a great trip with Tiernan(my new nephew and friend) Dondi and Roger. Dondi and I were teaching our annual Bellydance retreat in upstate New York, and in Boston. In between, we did some sight seeing through Nantucket and the Cape! We missed Hurricane Bill!
I came back only to be taken back to the hospital for more tests and procedures.
Tell a Fire to slow down in life...Ha! Fat chance! But, I am back for a couple of weeks to rest as much as I could.
I have loved getting back to my life again... accompanying my Mom and David in Energy Medicine courses, reading life colors, energy dancing, and watching my buddy, Tiernan, change day to day.
Dondi has become maternal and gotten more into her Earth Element and it's very nice to see, since we all thought (including her Wood self) she would never have children. My Mom and David are very happy as Grandparents, of course.
There are lots of things I have had to let go of in my life, seeing the way life has made it's own plans...Having Children by now and Giving my mother a grandchild are a few of them. Don't get me wrong...I'm still gonna have children...but I'm letting life take it's course in this direction...of what will be.
Tiernan has helped me let go of control. So...here is a sweet memory of the night that he was born... This is the photo of me Tiernan and Dondi the night she gave birth!!!
Here's a bit of the story of the night that Tiernan came into the world.

I had missed the birth by seconds, but was at the back door, listening to the baby's crys. I felt at peace as I entered. I wasn't stressed. Yay. I came in and Mom, me and Dondi continued to birth the placenta and sew Dondi up from tearing. I helped in the hardest part. I was at Dondi's side telling her to breathe. Somehow she had stupid classes where they didn't teach her that, but told her to envision her "vagina opening like a lotus". That's all good, but not reality. I felt like I had been in birthing rooms and caves over and over again, in other lifetimes. It felt natural to me, especially since envisioning this happening to me, so many times and teaching it in my Bellydance classes.
Well, Tiernan was rushed away to bond with the men in the other room and us, women did the dirty work. It was a wonderful bonding between Mom, me and Dondi and the midwife (a French woman-Rogers family is French which is interesting) even though Dondi was in so much pain. Mom almost fainted and had to leave the room, probably because it is hard to see your daughter in so much pain. That's understandable. I stayed calm for Dondi. I was so sad for Dondi to feel all this pain that she didn't expect or deserve. I am the one that has felt physical pain and goes to the hospitals over and over again throughout my life. She has never seen that side of life; she wasn't used to it. She didn't need that.
Well, baby came back into the room and dondi exclaimed or someone in the room said, "Hey, we don't know the sex yet?" Dondi lovingly looked at me and said "would you like to find out." I was delighted and peeked under the covers and exclaimed, "There it is!" We all knew what that meant. We had a little boy!
I always knew it was going to be a boy...even when last September, on our birthday, Dondi dropped the news. It has been very hard this last year, feeling my own emotions and trying to feel happy for Dondi. I didn't succeed that, many times over the course of the year. And now...I feel much more free from emotions.
There was a few of you, (including Jeff who had a dream about Dondi and Rogers boy the night before Dondi told him she was pregnant), that felt it too, even though EVERYONE else said, "Girl". ..So, I was the FIRST ONE to see his little peeny. I hear it's not so little anymore and the doctors are amazed at it's growth. ha ha ha

I am also taking my name as "Auntie" very seriously...as I never thought I would become one.
I have taken the name, Tauntie(German), and Tia(Spanish), as it seems so many of you are self -proclaiming yourselves as Aunts! There are only 2 of us...ME and Roger's sister, Monique.
So watch out!

This is my favorite photo so far. I love it because there I am holding Tiernan and Dondi is proudly being so cute after giving birth...behind us, representing the symbol of acceptance and presence of an angel.