Author: Michelle

“My husband, a commercial pilot, was in Houston for upgrade training for much of the five weeks before our daughter’s due date. Although he had given the little lady strict orders to stay put until he returned, we were very worried he might miss her birth. A good friend had accompanied me to my birthing classes and was prepared to help support me during the delivery, but I just really wanted my husband by my side and I knew he would be devastated too if he wasn’t there for our daughter’s birth.

As if she were waiting for the perfect moment, the night he came home from his final day of training, my water broke not five hours later. A little more than five hours after that, Camilla Jade Pels was born. She arrived at 8:46am on July 12, 2012 at 8lb, 12 oz and 21 inches long, following a quick but intense natural birth at the Alternative Birthing Center. When the midwives placed her in my arms, I was in awe of what an amazing and beautiful little person we had created.

After nine long months of anxiously imagining her, I was finally looking at her and I’ve hardly been able to tear my eyes away from her since. In just six days, she has become the absolute love of our lives. And what an upgrade for my husband — Captain and Daddy all in one day!”