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cyf19ou ([info]cyf19ou) wrote,
@ 2010-05-16 02:19:00

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The politically correct Blairs referred to her as best personI couldnt argue with that

Besides being the best, Hillary was pregnantvery pregnantWe badly wanted to have a child and had been trying for some time without successIn the summer of 1979, we decided to make an appointment with a fertility expert in San Francisco as soon as we got back from a short vacation in Bermuda, but we had a wonderful time, so wonderful we never made it to San FranciscoSoon after we got home, Hillary found out she was pregnantShe kept working for several months, and we attended Lamaze classes in anticipation of my participating in a natural childbirthI really enjoyed those classes and the time we spent with the other expectant parents, who were mostly middle-class working people just as excited as we wereA few weeks before her delivery date, Hillary was having a few problemsHer doctor told her she absolutely couldnt travelWe had complete confidence in him and understood that she had to observe his travel banUnfortunately, that meant she couldnt go with me to the annual Washington meeting of the National pink gucci bag Governors Association, including dinner at the White House with President and MrsI went to the conference; took Carolyn Huber, who had left the Rose Law Firm to run the Governors Mansion for us, to the White House dinner, called home every few hours, and returned as soon as I could on the night of February 27

Fifteen minutes after I walked into the Governors Mansion, Hillarys water broke, three weeks earlyI was nervous as a cat, carrying around my list of Lamaze materials to take to Arkansas Baptist HospitalThe state troopers who worked at the mansion were nervous, tooI asked them to get the bag of ice cubes for Hillary to suck on while I gathered the other stuffThey dida nine-pound bag, enough to last her through a week of laborWith the trunk loaded with Hillarys ice, the troopers got us to the hospital in no timeSoon after we arrived, we learned Hillary would have to give birth by cesarean section because the baby was in breech, upside down in the wombI was told that hospital policy did not permit fathers in the delivery room when an operation was necessaryI pleaded with the hospital rolex watches gmt master administrator to let me go in, saying that I had been to surgeries with Mother and that they could cut Hillary open from head to toe and I wouldnt get sick or faint, whereas Hillary was on edge, because she had never been a hospital patient in her entire life and she needed me there I held Hillarys hand and looked over the screen blocking her view of the cutting and bleeding to see the doctor lift our baby out of her bodyIt was the happiest moment of my life, one my own father never knew

Our little girl was a healthy six pounds, one and three quarters ounces, and she cried on cueWhile Hillary was in the recovery room, I carried Chelsea out to Mother and anyone else who was available to see the worlds most wonderful babyI talked to her and sang to herI never wanted that night to endAt last I was a fatherDespite my love for politics and government and my growing ambitions, I knew then that being a father was the most important job Id ever haveThanks to Hillary and Chelsea, it also turned out to be the most rewarding

When we got home from the hospital, Chelsea had a ready-made extended d&g fashion bags family in the Governors Mansion staff, including Carolyn Huber and Eliza Ashley, who had cooked there foreverLiza thought I looked too young to be governor in part because I was thin; she said if I were more stout Id look the part, and she was determined to make it happenShes a great cook, and unfortunately she succeeded

The Rose firm gave Hillary four months of parental leave to get Chelsea off to a good startBecause I was the boss, I could control when I went to the office, so I arranged my work to be home a lot in those first few monthsHillary and I talked often about how fortunate we were to have had that critical time to bond with ChelseaHillary told me that most other advanced countries provided paid parental leave to all citizens, and we believed that other parents should have the same priceless opportunity wed hadI thought about those first months with Chelsea in February 1993, when I signed my first bill into law as President, the Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows most American workers three months off when a baby is born or a family member is illBy the time I left office, handbags louis vuitton more than thirty-five million Americans had taken advantage of the lawPeople still come up to me, tell me their stories, and thank me for it

After we got Chelsea settled in, I went back to work in a year that would be dominated by politics and disastersOften the two were indistinguishable

One of the things candidates dont discuss much and voters dont consider carefully in races for governor or President is crisis managementHow will the Chief Executive handle natural or man-made disasters? I had more than my fair share in my first term as governorThe state was deluged in winter ice storms when I took officeI called out the National Guard to get generators to people without electricity, clear rural roads, and pull vehicles out of ditchesIn the spring of 1979, we had a string of tornadoes, which required me to ask President Carter to officially declare Arkansas a disaster area, making us eligible for federal fundsWe opened disaster-assistance centers to help people whod lost their homes, businesses, and farm cropsWe had to do it all over again when the spring of 1980 brought more chanel handbags large classic shopping bag tornadoes


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