The Book of Me - Project 2 - Birth

Prompt 2: Your Birth

How would you like to be a boy awaiting your second birthday and what do you get for a present but a baby sister?  Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.  You see, I am the baby sister so I did ok in the deal. Fortunately my brother, only being 2 doesn't really remember getting short changed a birthday and never held it against me.  Had he been a few years old he might have noticed that his parents weren't present for his birthday party.

On Monday, June 26, 1961 I was born to Milton and Janice, their third child, second girl. My familywas living in Oakville, a suburb of the city of Waterbury CT.  My birth certificate states I was born at 10 am, but the story my mother has told me is that it was closer to 8am.

Her tale was I was delivering much faster than they thought and the doctor had not yet arrived at the hospital (he had been out celebrating his anniversary the night before and was sleeping in) My mother says she remembers being told to cross her legs and not push to slow my delivery until the doctor arrived.  

Besides my mother and the doctor, Dr. Joseph C. Czarsty, I do not know the names of others present at my birth.  I had dark brown hair and brownish eyes as a baby.  My weight has always been high in life, my birth weight was 9lb 1oz.  All my mother's 5 babies were "large", ranging from 9lb 4oz down to 8lb 2oz.  Mom doesn't remember any of our lengths nor do we have any written records.

The story of my first and middle name, as my parents told me was they had seen the movie The Yearling and thought the name of the young character "Jody" was nice. It's my understanding that had I been a boy I would be Jody (with the y), but because I was a girl, I was Jodie with an ie.  My middle name, Irene, is my mother's middle name.  Had I had my own daughter, I was planning on carrying on what my mother had started and given the child the same middle name.