Thank you to everyone who sent their love energy on Saturday 7/14 and Sunday 7/15. I felt it. And Pod was induced and born elegantly, gracefully and with fully locked-on love guidance to welcome him.
Phoenix Orison De Jesus Kenefick was born after 15.5 hours of labor on Sunday, 7/15/07 at 8.43pm!
I've been recuperating, healing and acclimating to "mom-ness" - but wanted to give this brief update, with a promise of formal birth announcements and more to come shortly.
Always with more love - Carmen
On the Origin and Meaning of the baby's name:
( From an earlier CDJ Update)
IV. Pod has named himself
Everyone asks if we have a name for Pod. I knew that Pod would name himself. And he has. During a recent prenatal massage (wherein Pod and I have our most intimate conversations), I had a
mini-dream/visualization: I was sitting, propped up, in the hospital bed, being asked to fill out Pod's
birth certificate forms. Without hesitation, I saw myself writing out a name, in my own handwriting,
letter-by-letter - until I had Pod's first and middle name, ending with De Jesus-Kenefick. It's definitely
an unusual name - poetic, epic, literary - but not one that I would have thought of. I even challenged this vision, by forcing myself to imagine writing a different name - any other name, but in the
visualization the letters kept coming out the same - that original name as directed by the Pod. He has
chosen for himself, and has also requested that his name be kept secret until he is born. I will honor
his request. Only Matt and I know the name. When I was finished with my massage that day, I told Matt "I have news from Pod." We had a special lunch at the little French Cafe at the Grove/Farmer's Market, where I wrote the name on a piece of paper, and handed it over to Matt to read. Matt was stunned, but as we lunched, we both were kind of spaced out, as we mulled over the fit of such a name. We are both committed to honoring Pod's request. My mom's reaction to this: "Yeah, right." But I will not deviate from this vision.
Update 7/19: I fulfilled Pod's request and did not reveal his name until immediately after he was born. My legs still in the stirrups, my whole body still shaking - I was handed a pen and a paper for his birth certificate. Completely fulfilling the vision that Pod had sent to me that day, I "announced" his name by writing it out on the paper and handing it off, then I closed my eyes and rested.
Phoenix: Everyone knows what is a Phoenix. I interpret this name not only to be about rebirth (wherein little Pod is indeed a rebirthed new soul into the world), re-emergence, fire, light, rising. . .
Orison: When Pod told me this middle name, I didn't have any clue as to why he wanted it. I remembered the word from a line in Hamlet, wherein Hamlet speaks of Ophelia "Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered." Anyway, Orison is an old English word, taken from an old French word - all meaning "prayer" or "request to a deity" and sometimes specifically "morning song" or "morning prayer."
**We can still call him P.O.D. Kenefick!
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