Roman Edward Geisler
Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 03:06AM Yesterday I received a call from my brother. His wife Katie had been sitting at a stop light when all of a sudden she was hit from behind, the impact was so strong that it forced her car into the vehicle in front of her. She is 35 weeks pregnant and was advised to visit the hospital. After four hours of being monitored, they were finally released to go home. They were exhausted and it was already past midnight when they arrived at their house. While sitting down at the table for a light snack before bed, Katie felt a gush. Her water had just broken. With five weeks still to go in their pregnancy they were a bit shook-up on the way back to the hospital. Jay called me, because he knew I was the only one that would be up at that time since it was the afternoon here in India. He told me he wanted to wait to call everyone else until the morning. I told him to try and get some rest, because it sounded like Katie was going to need it since the birth seemed imminent. I was very worried and I wanted to call someone, but I agreed not to call my parents and Justin is away in Bangkok for simulator training until the 9th. I got a hold of a few friends and asked them to say some prayers for Jay, Katie and the baby. This morning I woke early and called my brother immediately. Roman Edward Geisler was born at 2:49pm September 4th 2009. He weighed 5 pounds and 9 ½ ounces and was 18 inches long. Everything went fine and he seemed to be breathing well and not having too much trouble feeding. He will even be able to stay in the room tonight with Jay and Katie. I am so happy. Jay is my only sibling, and he is very important to me. I can’t believe I’m an aunt. Even though little Roman was a little early he’s seems to be doing well. Thank you all for the kind thoughts and words of encouragement it means a lot!
Happy Birthday!
Katie with her new son.
Look how happy my brother is to be a dad!
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What a crazy and scary turn of events. I hope they are all doing okay, it sounds like it. Congratulations to your brother even though i have never met him and congratulations on becoming an aunt, he's a cutie! It only makes me think how beautiful your baby is going to be too!