It Was 20 Years Ago Today…
I was working at a sound company with a rehearsal sound stage. We were hosting one of the big time, big hair rock bands of the day. During rehearsal, I got a call from Cherie. She thought she might be in labor. I rushed to her parent’s house where we had been living for the last eight months. Just after Carson started (Johnny, not Daly) Cherie’s water broke. We headed to Anaheim General Hospital, not waking her or my parents or family. Just a bit after 2:00 AM, we welcomed Raven Isis Stevens-Holt to planet earth. I was in the delivery room, basically in shock though I’d had a few months of Lamaze training. It was the most single moving, life changing experience I’ve ever had, even 20 years later.
Happy Birthday Sweetie!
February 18th, 2005 at 2:20 pm
Wow… I hope my parents never post the details of my birth in a blog.
February 18th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Your parents are probably too old to know what a blog is…
I’m sure you’ll feel different after you have a kid of your own. For pretty much every one that goes through it is something you can’t really describe until you experience it yourself. Once you start hanging out with other adults starting families that kind of story is pretty common.
Rageboy aka Chris Locke blogged about his first daughter’s birth in 1970 when Lamaze was new and the nurses weren’t going to let into the labor or delivery room. (http://www.chiefbloggingofficer.com/2005/02/scobelization-of-microsoft.html)
Things have certainly changed a great deal since them to the point where not being in the room is the exception.
February 19th, 2005 at 6:40 am
“Wow… I hope my parents never post the details of my birth in a blog.”
Details?? You have no idea, trust me…:o)
Geri O (Nope, no kids of my own, but I’ve been there…don’t ask…o))
March 11th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
Happy belated birthday to Raven, my first (and only) niece.