Soldier Returns Home To See His Newly Born Daughter, Takes One Step And Tears Fall Heavily
During a pregnancy, there is so much joy and excitement! Every day there is a anxiousness, awaiting the day that your special blessing is brought into the world. And the journey to that special day is just as amazing as the actual day your newborn is brought into the world.
The discovery of finding out you are pregnant brings such a sense of love, excitement, nervousness and anxiousness. Just thinking about the gender of the baby, wondering what kind of crib you should pick out, experiencing your child's first kick and the heartwarming sound of your baby's heartbeat.
Even still, those nine months of pregnancy are just stepping stones to the grand finale of childbirth.
Not having your loved ones by your side during those euphoric moments can be quite disappointing. This had become a reality for Chelsea Osborne whose husband, First Lieutenant Jake Osborne, had been sent off to a long deployment in Afghanistan just a few weeks after they learned she was pregnant. Chelsea had cradled her pregnant belly in her arms as she watched him leave, taking a part of her heart with him.
As the time got closer and closer to her due date, Jake became more and more unsure whether he would actually be able to make it back home to witness the delivery. Missing the significant occurrences along the way was hard enough, but being absent for the first minutes of his daughter’s life would be even harder to bear.
Thankfully, Jake’s commander came to him one day and brought him the news he had been waiting to hear for a while: he would finally be going home on leave. To say he was ecstatic would probably be an understatement!
Two days later, Jake was in the airport waiting for his flight home when he got the call that his daughter had been born and she was everything he could have hoped for.
“Chelsea has been joking with me this entire time that I’ve been gone, saying that she didn’t think it had really set in with me that we were about to have a baby,” Osborne expressed.
The moment Jake walked into the hospital room and saw his wife and their newborn baby, he knew he had underestimated how prepared he was. No amount of time or thought could have really prepared him for how truly amazing that moment was. He stood in the doorway frozen, unable to say a word or close his jaw.
“She’ll bring a grown man to his knees,” said the soldier, totally smitten with daughter Paisley.
What a beautiful reunion! Congratulations on the new addition to your family, Jake and Chelsea! We wish you many more special moments like this one!
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