One more reason to Glory in Christ's mercy

I thank God in his mercy that we live in the time we live in. And that he has taught men (even men that didn't love him) the skill of a Caesarean birth.
Angela has struggled off and on wondering if there is something that she could have done differently that would have resulted in her being able to deliver Abraham vaginally. The doctors have told her there is nothing that she could have done other than possibly having induced labor when she was not so far along.
*disclaimer on being a little graphic*
My brothers Paul and David and I buy and resell diary heifers. About a week ago we had bought a group of dairy heifers. A veterinarian had pregnancy checked all of the heifers before the sale to tell how far along they were or if they were open. They do this through palpation of the heifer. Occasionally they are a little off on their guess as to how far along the heifer is in her pregnancy. We vaccinate the heifers accordingly using different vaccines for pregnant heifers and open ones. Well, a couple of days after we brought them home we noticed that one of the heifers was aborting her calf. We looked on the list and she was supposed to be open. We figured maybe the vet had missed it a little and she was probably short bred, like maybe 30-45 days. Well later on the second day we noticed that she still had cleanings (placenta) hanging out of her so we loaded her in the cattle trailer to she if we could do anything for her. Paul palpated her and discovered much to our surprise that she was probably about 8 months pregnant (cows are pregnant for about 9 months) and that she was still with calf. Normally cows have their calves on their own, but sometimes you have to pull the calf out. They come front feet first and then head and body. They are usually only in labor for a few hours at the absolute most. At 2 days the calf was already dead, and usually a cow that is in labor for that long has a very small chance of survival let alone being a productive cow. Well we (mostly Paul) worked for hours trying to get the calf out of this heifer. *VERY GRAPHIC* Paul was having to (with a long plastic glove that covers the length of your arm) try to get the calf's head in place so that it would come out as David and I pulled on the calving chains hooked to the calf's legs. But nothing would work. And reaching in a cow while it is laboring is very exhausting work for even a short time let alone hours. We pulled until there was nothing left to pull on and the calf was still in the heifer (As I said the calf was already dead and I have never seen this happen before). The heifer was not really able to even walk by the time we were done, and the majority of the calf was still inside. I ended up having to put the heifer down.

As I drove home that night the magnitude of what had just taken place really hit home to me. It was after 11 o'clock at night I had just lost a heifer, and neither of those things really mattered all that much. All I could keep thinking of was how hard Angela had labored with Abraham and then driven to exhaustion she still could do nothing to bring him into this world; he like that calf would just not fit out of the birthing canal. That is when it really hit me how again how gracious God has been to us. It is only fairly recently in history that C-sections are a common practice in humans with a very high survival rate for both mother and child. I do not know why He has blessed us with living in this time or place, when so many through history have not had that, I can only be thankful for the undue mercy He has had on us.
Thankyou! God You have been good to us beyond hope!