Toviah & Michelle Rose's daughter, Sephina, was born at 2:45 AM, today, after 60 hours-awake and in labor.

Toviah & Michelle Rose's daughter, Sephina, was born at 2:45 AM, today, after 60 hours-awake and in labor. She was delivered in the old fashioned, natural way. Weighing in at 9.9 lbs, this heavywight woke up from her first official 4 hour nap to nurse and proceded to chug for 10 minutes. Then fell asleep again for five hours.

Mom is elated and amazingingly "with it" after 1-1/2 hours sleep, and an uncountable amount of minutes of sleep between interruptions by hospital staff. Dad rested comfortably in his own bed (no WAY a human could sleep on the one provided by the hospital), for 4.75 hours -- until one of their new church interns (who was there all night with mom and dad), called him on the cell phone to ask a silly question, promting dad to ask in response, "What in the world are YOU doing AWAKE!?!?"

Would love your prayers! :)

--T0V