Waiting

One of the most intimate experiences in my life was last night, being in a dimly lit room with a woman in labor.

Yes, last night at ten I got the call that Sirpa was about to give birth, so Timo came to pick me up and I went to watch over sleeping Ella. The expecting parents left for the hospital around midnight and I went to bed. Unknown are the ways of babies though, and they came back after 3 am - they had been given the option to wait at the hospital but they wanted to come home instead.

And they were still there when I woke up in the morning - by this time Sirpa had been in labor for about 15 hours and was getting thoroughly fed up with the whole affair. Ella was pretty stunned about the fact that I was there in the morning, I'm sure the shock would have been even more if her parents hadn't been there.

So we wait.