And once the cord was cut, the nurse didn’t place Rosie on Stephani’s chest, but whisked the baby to the examination area across the room. Rosie didn’t look like their son, Silas, had at birth. “I told you ultrasounds could be wrong,” Stephani said to Eric, giving his arm a playful swat.Īs Eric cut the umbilical cord, he got a closer look at his newborn. Their baby girl appeared to be a baby boy. A nurse held up the alert newborn for her parents to see.
A few more pushes and Rosie made her grand entrance, wriggling and wailing and perfectly pink. After seven hours of labour, they were both eager to meet their baby, a daughter they had already named Rosalie-Rosie for short-after an ultrasound indicated they were having a girl. “Breathe and push,” Eric Lohman encouraged his wife, Stephani, as she squeezed his hand and bore down.
