miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2014

The Arrival of a new Member to the Family



Start the countdown, and probably Macarena arrives next week.




Feelings of emotion, illusion, joy and fear come together …. I mean like when you have the first, make sense?

Excitement at seeing her face, take care, give all the love and share everything between 9 and they are already at home.

And fear because all is well, healthy and both have strength and grace to accept our new responsibility of another Gift of Heaven…

When the day is coming, at least to me several things happen to me, do not know if you will feel identified, the previous children become unbearable, many people think they know who comes another, it seems to me that not true, simply requiring the attention they had before .. and obviously becomes difficult ..Because you have another Baby.

So far,  I wrote before she was born, BUT.. God Knows more..

Macarena was born on April 20th,   in Holy Saturday, for me as a Catholic I found it a very nice and special date, and the truth is that Macarena has been very special.

This is what we wrote after leaving the Hospital: 




" As you all know our daughter Macarena (number 11 in the family) came into this world with lack of oxygen in half her body and major heart problems. A few minutes after her birth the doctors confirmed that the problems she had were associated to another cause; she was born with Down syndrome (Though we had gone through all normal pregnancy tests we had no idea about this until then). Moreover, they took me into a separate room by myself and told me that the baby had to be taken to another emergency hospital for urgent intervention and that they feared for her life.
It was quite a shock for us as we expected that everything would be normal and uncomplicated as it had always been so for us. We began to pray and asked friends & family to pray for Macarena to get well.
From then on and although Macarena was still not recovering or getting better, we began to feel a sense of peace and of being accompanied. In the following days, Macarena miraculously began to evolve positively and we were given a message of reassurance from another hospital where she underwent further tests. We eventually returned home with her last Saturday . Now she is the focus of all her siblings and all contend to see who can be the one to hold her or give her some of her bottle. 
As many of you know the name " Macarena", along with being the name of a popular song about singers from Seville in southern Spain  (where I come from), is the most famous invocation to the Holy Virgin of this city. The meaning of the word is " Blessed ". We feel that our daughter Macarena came blessed from heaven from the moment of her conception. She is for us a blessing from heaven for our entire family. We are happy with this gift that and we eagerly accept the life, joys and challenges that are in front of us as a family.





We have received messages of support from all over the world and even though we are far away from all our Spanish family (all except for my holy sister Carmen) we have felt very supported , lucky and loved. I have attached a picture of the Our Lady of Macarena from Seville (Spain) and once again I thank you  again for all your continued support and prayers" 
  
This is the true reality so far ..But what happened to the uncertainty of not knowing or fear of the new, as guess with a Down syndrome child when sometimes we do with those who are normal .. For me this step was 5 hours…it was to accept that it was my life and my daughter no more .. my gift from God. 


 The only thing I can say is my version so far, I have no idea the difference between a Down Syndrome baby with the third chromosome 21, for this, I will rely on partnerships I'm sure that will help me for questions I could have, but what I know sure is we adore her, we love her, the lovingly more than anyone because it appears that asks me which is my daughter and I live day by day, if I will face difficulties appear as the any of my children if slower in learning to sit, give me the same, if all I will learn to give more love,  love and love.




Just think of someone who does not know selfishness from evil, envious .. already love her,  if you have more slanted eyes .. or some other characteristics I see her beautiful ..



As a Catholic, I am proud to have as an angel in heaven, Beltran my Baby gone with 6 month and now Macarena , and this is my job, my great job, and I think worth it.




In summary, I can not be sad, I do not wonder that the famous, Why? Only I thank God that my daughter is healthy and we can fight for her, not that it is better or worse is just SHE, and deserves the best. 

His brothers are delighted and THEY do not see the difference, do you see?  I DO NOT!

We have a new member in the family and is very special, a star in the hearts of all! 

Thank you all for your prayers!