Blogger in labor! *Update*

*Update* Okay, I really don't want to steal Amber's thunder and announce this for her without her knowing, but since you're all waiting and wondering, and I don't want you to worry... I'll just say that the baby is here and it's a girl! So happy for you, Amber! Can't wait to see pictures!!

Please pray for Amber at Fertile Thoughts as she gets ready to meet her baby very soon!

We (me, GIMH, and Amber's sister C) were actually supposed to be having lunch with her right now, but C called this morning to say Amber's water broke overnight. She was initially sent back home to wait for stronger contractions, but the latest news I heard was that she's headed back to the hospital shortly.

I'm so excited to hear the good news and to find out if her little one is a boy or a girl!! I'll keep you updated if I hear anything. And, in the meantime, please offer your prayers for a safe delivery and a healthy baby!

A Prayer to St. Gerard for Safe Delivery

O great Saint Gerard, beloved servant of Jesus Christ, perfect imitator of your meek and humble Savior, and devoted child of Mother of God, enkindle within my heart one spark of that heavenly fire of charity which glowed in your heart and made you an angel of love.

O glorious Saint Gerard, because when falsely accused of crime, you did bear, like your Divine Master, without murmur or complaint, the calumnies of wicked men, you have been raised up by God as the patron and protector of expectant mothers.

Preserve Amber from danger and from the excessive pains accompanying childbirth, and shield the child which she now carries, that it may see the light of day and receive the purifying and life-giving waters of baptism through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.