Baby Carter and Baby Cohen

June 5

Sunday Night

After a busy day we were crawling into bed to snuggle in for the night (9:30) to a show when I got a phone call that they were delivering the babies by c-section.  I still had all my bags packed so I jumped in the car and we raced down to Seattle.  

The following section is from Jana's blog.

Carter Garen (Baby B) and Cohen James (Baby A) were born yesterday at 10:35 and 10:36 pm. 

Carter gave this world his best try but his little body just wasn't meant for it and he is now resting in the arms of Jesus. He weighed 2 lbs and was perfect in every way.  Cohen is 1 lb 8 oz and is in the NICU where the doctors and nurses can keep a close eye on how he's doing.  The doctors have said so far that he is doing good for a baby of his gestational age, so we hope and pray that will continue but we know he has a very long journey ahead of him.

When we arrived the first news we heard was that Carter didn't make it.
 I was immediately brought to tears for the loss of Carter and
my thoughts went right to Jana and how she must be feeling.

We got to go right back to Jana's room where she was holding baby Carter all wrapped up in a blanket. Mom and I got to hold him, touch him, and examine all his fingers and toes. He so precious in every way. He has forever touched our lives and will be in my heart forever. 

We know he is looking over baby Cohen and rocking in the arms of Great Gramma Rinehart.

We each got a turn to go visit baby Cohen before we left and I was able to take a few pictures to show Jana would hadn't had a chance to visit him yet.  I put my finger in his hand and grabbed on tight. 

I could have stayed by his side all night if they would have let me.

We stayed through the night with Jana and Danny. 
We got to meet and hold Carter.
We were their to comfort Jana as much as we could.
We sat in silence.
We listened.
We cried.

You want to do anything you can to make everything all better
but in reality there is nothing you can do but be there.