He was born July 4 at around 9pm via emergency C-section.  What?!  Yes, we were all praying and hoping (and preparing physically, psychologically, mentally and financially) for a normal spontaneous delivery.  Imagine I had to endure the intolerable pain of five hours of labor (still shorter than my first-born's 20 hour labor) and the almost two hours of pushing, just to be told by my caring and excellent OB that she had to do a Caesarian on me, for my and baby's safety.