It's a Girl

Thursday after we came home from the Fox barbeque on Israeli Independence Day, and Ema was already warning Abba that things were getting imminent. Her due date was the beginning of May and she hasn't been early yet. Maybe the way Harry marinates his steaks had something to do with it

Anyway, Abba told Ema that if she gave birth on Friday, the 5th of Iyar, there would be all this pressure to name the baby Tzion or Tziona, plus Shabbos always makes things complicated, so let's shoot for Sunday. As usual Ema rolled her eyes at Abba, but B'Sha'ah Tova it worked and our daughter came into the world at 8:34 PM on Sunday evening, April 29th, 2012

Yet another April birthday in the Gersten Family. I think by now we have all the dates of April covered. For those of you keeping score at home that's: girl, boy, boy, boy – girl. Sound's vaguely familiar. Speaking of  Aunt Dina – Happy 28th Birthday. So close – just off by a day.

After dinner, Libby came over around 6:30 PM to babysit and Abba and Ema headed for the hospital. Elisheva protested, "I'm not ready, I'm not ready", to which we all laughed and Abba said, "Well, the baby is ready, Elisheva, so it's time to go."

Baruch Hashem everything went smoothly and chick-chock – at least from Abba's perspective. Actually, the longest delay was waiting 2 hours after delivery to get into a room upstairs.

Here is some video about ten minutes after birth while the baby was warming up in one of those horizontal rotisserie things except the baby doesn't spin round and round (maybe eventually they'll make those too)