Welcome Baby Susannah!After nine and a half months of telling people we were going to have a July baby, we were quite surprised by Susannah Mary Turner's arrival on June 22, 2014.
We were even more surprised because we had just finished packing up everything in our house, storing it away, moving next door, and putting stain down on the entire wood floor in our house - which covers everything but the bathrooms and the new bedroom. The stain was finished sometime around midnight June 21 and Lauren went into labor sometime around 3:30 June 22. At 9:30 in the morning when Lauren was finally forced to admit she was in labor and it wasn't false labor, there was a flurry of activity while the bedroom next door was hastily cleared back out, paper laid across the barely-dry floor, fans were placed to clear the fumes, and Dad Turner made a quick trip to Lowe's for an air purifier. |
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Over the course of the next 12 hours, our families gradually all got together until by the time of Susannah's birth around 10:00 PM, Lauren's mom and sister were there with us and the majority of the others were next door and began coming in after things had been cleaned up and we were weighing and measuring and checking Susannah. As with the rest of the circumstances surrounding her birth, what happened with our family's presence spontaneously was much better than what we were trying to plan beforehand.
We've been asked a number of times about how we chose Susannah's name. We began by liking the name Hosanna, which means "Please save". However, as we thought about it there were some drawbacks to this name since it was unusual and not typically used as a name. We began looking for other similar names and came upon Shoshana. The English version Susannah was not too terribly unusual and we liked the sound of that one too. We then thought of giving her the middle name of Mary after both her grandmothers (convenient of them to share the same first name!). At first we were simply satisfied with having a nice name. But then Grandma Lila had a stroke and the last trimester of Susannah's pregnancy was full of uncertainty and sadness. As we came closer and closer to due date, we began considering the implications of Susannah's name. Shoshana Miriam would basically mean a rose or lily growing from sadness or bitterness (the Hebrew word for Egypt - the land of slavery - was Mitzraim, meaning roughly something salty or bitter like tears and Miriam is a derivative). Something beautiful growing in the middle of sadness. That is a very appropriate name for our beautiful little girl who arrived just as Grandma left us.
Welcome to the family, Susannah Mary! We're glad to finally meet you.
We've been asked a number of times about how we chose Susannah's name. We began by liking the name Hosanna, which means "Please save". However, as we thought about it there were some drawbacks to this name since it was unusual and not typically used as a name. We began looking for other similar names and came upon Shoshana. The English version Susannah was not too terribly unusual and we liked the sound of that one too. We then thought of giving her the middle name of Mary after both her grandmothers (convenient of them to share the same first name!). At first we were simply satisfied with having a nice name. But then Grandma Lila had a stroke and the last trimester of Susannah's pregnancy was full of uncertainty and sadness. As we came closer and closer to due date, we began considering the implications of Susannah's name. Shoshana Miriam would basically mean a rose or lily growing from sadness or bitterness (the Hebrew word for Egypt - the land of slavery - was Mitzraim, meaning roughly something salty or bitter like tears and Miriam is a derivative). Something beautiful growing in the middle of sadness. That is a very appropriate name for our beautiful little girl who arrived just as Grandma left us.
Welcome to the family, Susannah Mary! We're glad to finally meet you.