Serendipity

Here are some serendipitous facts about baby Maeve:

1) Maeve and Jackson were both born on the 14th day of the month.

2) Around 2 a.m. one night at the hospital a very sweet, Irish midwife came in to care for Maeve so Drew and I could get some rest (I could have taken her home!). She told us she also had a daughter named Maeve, but hadn't heard it used since she named her daughter that 15 years ago. She said our daughter would be strong. The name comes from Irish and Gaelic origin, and the original form is Meadhbh, name of the legendary warrior queen of pre-Christian Ireland. Apparently, this Meadhbh was some woman and ended up slaying a warrior hero. The meaning of the name is "intoxicating." Because I had this name in mind since college, we had never bothered looking up the meaning, etc., but now find ourselves with a warrior queen. Yikes!

3) A side note to that: You know how sometimes the last song you hear on the radio in the car is the one that stays in your head all day? Well, the last song I listened to on my iPod at the hospital while we were waiting for things to get going was "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado, a remake of the 80's song by Hall & Oates (who happens to be a Schupp family favorite). And it has been in my head every since. So here are the a few lyrics, which I think, add more meaning to side note number two . . . She's a maneater. Make you work hard. Make you spend hard. Make you want all of her love. She's a maneater. Make you buy cars. Make you cut cards. Wish you never ever met her at all!

So yes, we might just have a little warrior queen after all.

4) Heather, the midwife on first shift during delivery (I have yet to deliver a baby during just one nurse's shift) shares a birthday with Jackson, November 14th.

5) Maeve was born at 5:16 p.m. My birthday is May 16th, or 5/16.