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Story of DS's birth. Hearts are from a swap. I used Sticky Stitches around the journaling which is on vellum. Title is printed on Bazzill paper. Font is BH traditional. Journaling reads “Saturday (4/3), we took Caroline to the zoo and walked and walked and walked! I had gone to the dr. on Thursday and was 2-3 cm dilated and 50% effaced. Sunday evening, around 9ish, I started feeling some contractions. So around 10:30pm, Jason and I started to time the contractions. They started out at 5-6 minutes apart and lasted about 25 seconds. Our instructions were not to do anything or call anyone until ctx were 5 minutes apart and lasting 1 minute. So we were up all night, timing contractions. I didn’t get any sleep at all! Around 7, Jason woke up and started getting ready for work (uh, no dear, we are going to the hospital!). He took Caroline to the sitter and we called the doctor. Dr. tells us to go to the Assessment Center to see where we were. We go there and contractions are about 3-4 minutes now and lasting 45 seconds to a minute. Dr. comes in and says I am still at 2-3 and the contractions look like an irritability pattern. (whatever that is!) She says she has a surgery to do but that she will come back after and take another look at me. Within that time, about an hour, I dilated to 4. She comes back, checks me, sees that I have changed and tells me she is sending me to L&D. They will get an IV started and then she’ll break my water. At this point, I had had a little tinge of blood but she thought it was due to cervical change. I get upstairs to L&D, get the IV started and she goes to break my water, there is no gush. At this point I had started to bleed a bit more. She tells me to get the epi and then she can really go in and break my water. Got the epi. She goes in to break water again and there is no water, it’s all blood. From that point to Sam’s birth was about 15 minutes. It all went so fast. I was rushed in the OR for what they termed as a “crash section.” There was no time to call anyone. Nana and KayKay had just gotten there and that was it! After delivery, dr. came in and said I had lost quite a bit of blood and that I had a partial placental abruption. I was lucky to have been in the hospital when it happened. Samuel (SAM) Mark B. was born at 5:28pm on April 5, 2004 (exactly 33 months from his big sister!). He weighed 6 lbs, 5.3 oz. and was 19 inches long.”
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