Birth Story: Laura Kathleen Grant

This memory was recorded by Dale Grant in March 2015.

Laura was our beautiful daughter number 3, born on the 15th of February 1975. I do not remember what I was doing or where I was that day. I do remember taking your mother to the hospital in the later part of the afternoon, driving around town and starting home because your mother did not want to go to the hospital any sooner than necessary. When we finally did go to the hospital the nurses were quite excited when they examined your mother. Joan Anderson from Barnwell had just delivered a baby girl and then it was your mother’s turn. I remember the nurses saying that there had been a lot of baby girls born in the last week and so I said that we would break the trend and have a boy. It was not to be. I had always planned on each one of my children being a boy, but I was blest instead to have wonderful, beautiful, giggly daughters. It is really strange that I cannot remember any more about the day. I am just drawing a blank. Laura brought great joy and happiness into our home. She was always very determined and when she set her mind on something. Nothing could deter her unless it was my loud threatening demeanor.