I have a precious little bundle asleep next to me right now who introduced herself to my arms last Tuesday at 9:49 p.m. I am so thankful to God for Aria and for a safe (but eventful) birth. She is a mellow and sweet newborn ( and I happen to think she is very beautiful too). Her name, Aria, means “beautiful melody” and Sono means “flower garden”. Sono is my husband’s mother’s name. She passed away during the middle of this pregnancy and we miss her sorely.
I know that some of you will be curious about her birth, here is just a very short version of the story. After having mild labor at home most of Tuesday, I finally became convinced that I was truly in labor in the evening. By the time we got to the birthing center I was feeling pretty far along in the labor process, and sure enough, Aria was born in less then two hours! To make it even more exciting she was a surprise breech baby. My midwife handled everything wonderfully, and I was able to deliver her safely and quickly, though having her breech definitely made it more tense at times.
I am on bed rest for a while to help me recover and heal, so things may be a bit quiet here on my blog the next few weeks, though I do have some preplanned posts coming up in our plastic free series.
Meanwhile, I am going to enjoy this new addition to our family!
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how wonderful to be able to snuggle up with a new baby. blessings to all of you.
Congratulations! I am so jealous.. I am at 38.5 weeks and am ready for my baby to come. You are so lucky to have a wonderful midwife and birth center where they allowed you to give birth to a breech baby naturally. Around here, that would be an automatic C-section. Midwifes aren’t “allowed” by law to perform breech births and the hospitals all have “policies” against it. I hate it! Thank god my little bundle is head down.. crossing my fingers she stays that way!
What a beautiful little girl! Congratulations to you and the whole family. Get some rest, and enjoy your bambina.
What a beautiful baby with a beautiful name. Glad to hear you are all happy and healthy.
Take care, get your rest!
How sweet! Congratulations and more power to you and your mid-wife! Yay for natural child birth!!! Take it easy:)
Welcome to Aria Sono , what a beautiful tribute to your mother-in-law! Very happy for you and your family, Kimmi!
Blessings to all of you as you enjoy her. What an honor to share her grandmother’s name.
congrats! she is beautiful. you are blessed.
Congratulations! She IS beautiful 🙂
congrats and welcome to your beautiful bundle
Congratulations to you and your family! What a beautiful name for your beautiful blessing.
Hope you’ll be feeling rested and completely recovered very soon.
Congratulations on a beautiful baby!
How precious she is! That is wonderful that you were able to deliver her breech and everything turned out well! Don’t worry about us, we’ll wait patiently 🙂 you enjoy your new blessing.
Congratulations!!! So sweet and beautiful. Good work mom! ….and the name! Perfect. Many blessings to you and your family.
Congratulations on your new little girl!
Wow! What a beautiful daughter and precious name!
I have been reading your blog for awhile . . . but I never made the connection before! I had no idea you were related to Gregg and Sono Harris! What a huge blessing!!! Gregg Harris was very instrumental in my decision to homeschool and was a big influence in my life as a young homeschool mother!
Many blessings on your family!
I suspected you might be part of “that” Harris clan. Yea, I’m glad my suspiciaons have been confirmed. I’m a fan of “Do Hard Things”, and will leave it at that. Blessings on you and yours.
What a beautiful name! I’m so happy for you and your family.
Gorgeous! Congratulations.
Yay! Congratulations. That’s wonderful news 😀
Congratulations! She is precious!
Congratulations to you and your family! I’m so happy for you.
Congratulations! She is a beauty. Rest, rest, rest…at least two weeks in bed. May God bless you and your family.
A beautiful blessing with a lovely name. May you, Joel, Elena & Aria continue to be richly blessed throughout life.
Such happy news! Congratulations! We truly need more stories like Aria’s (natural breech) in the discussion about ‘rules’ around birth. Thanks for sharing…..
Congratulations! She is absolutely beautiful!
Happy babymoon!
She is indeed beautiful! Congrats! She is 3 weeks younger than my first grandchild! Parker Lane Anderson. Maybe they will both be great chefs :–)
Congratulations to you, Joel, and Elena!! The Lord has blessed you so much with tiny Aria Sono!!
Congratulations on a healthy baby girl! May she bring you and your family much joy!
CONGRATS! She *is* beautiful. And you can bet that Sono is smiling down at her every moment…
Congratulations! She is absolutely beautiful. And a beautiful name to match.
She’s gorgeous, Congrats!!!
CONGRATS HARRIS FAMILY!
That is a beautiful, fitting name for such a lovely looking baby girl. How nice that you, like me named her for her late Grandmother. My wish for my daughter is that she turn out to be just as wonderful as her namesake. I am sure you feel the same. This is the first I have heard of a natural breech birth- but I am happy for both of you that it was able to happen. I am sure it was not easy at all- so rest rest rest. Sometime later when you are feeling more yourself it would be very inspiring to hear more details. I am sure I am not the only woman who never thought it was an option… but I did ask my midwife about a week before my daughter was born.. she said she had NEVER had to deliver a breech because you can just “reach in and turn the baby around, just like what you should do if the cord is around babes neck”. My daugther turned at the LAST MINUTE thankfully because THAT did NOT sound like fun at all! 9 moons came and went but it looks like your little sweets is right on time!
Congratulations! She is beautiful and so is her name. Enjoy her in this first precious days!
Many blessings to you and your family. Thank you for sharing such a treasure with us.
Congratulations! She is beautiful and has a beautiful name. God bless you.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
MAY PEACE, HEALTH AND JOYFUL GIGGLES SURROUND YOU AND THE NEW BUNDLE.
GIOVANNA
She IS beautiful! Congrats to you and yours. Rest up!
kimi, Joel & Elena,
Congratulations, she is so beautiful & what a lovely name Aria Sono in loving memory of Joels mother and your Mother law. She will bring you all so much joy ! I’m sure Elena is thrilled to have a little baby sister . I wish you all Love, Health & Happiness !
All my love and hugs to all :):)
Sherrie
oh my.. aria is beautiful! many blessings to the sweet family.
What a BEAUTIFUL name and such a little beauty. Very happy for you and your family. Enjoy your babymoon! Sending love, light and blessings.
What a special blessing! Congratualtions! She is beautiful and her name is just lovely. I do hope you got some of the meals in the freezer that you had been planning! 🙂 Enjoy this special time. May the Lord bless your family.
Congratulations, she is beautiful. Savor these moments.
So happy to hear everything turned out beautifully, with a gorgeous little sweet girl. Congratulations!
She is beautiful and with a beautiful name. So sweet.
Congratulations.
Congratulations! She’s beautiful! I wish you all of God’s blessings.
Congratulations and many blessings! 🙂
Congradulations and best wishes for you and your family!
Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby girl! Praying that you have a time of blessed healing and bonding with this new life! How precious to give her the name of your MIL. Greg and Sono have blessed us so many times in our 23 years of homeschooling with Greg’s book, Sono’s tapes on Mary and Martha and the exercise tape as well. Now we are enjoying the words of their sons. What a great heritage to be born with! May you enjoy sweet times of refreshing with your little family!