Before you were born

Hi Jacob-

I wanted to tell you a little bit about how things were before you were born. I found out I was pregnant with you a few weeks after daddy and I got married. It was a big shock. I cried because I was so scared. I was not ready for a baby and daddy and I had just gotten married and I didnt know what to do. Daddy was VERY happy. He cried happy tears! Seeing him so happy made me happy too. I bought all the books I could telling me how to take care of my growing baby inside of me. The whole 8 of the 9 months went great. Then I started gaining a lot of weight and I got really swollen. My blood pressure started to get high every doctors appt. They were a little worried but didnt do much about it, other than telling me to sit down a lot and to take it easy. On Aug 26th our car got stolen out of our parking spot. The stress of that made me have lots of contractions. I knew it was time for you to be born. We waited to see if they would get stronger. So the next day, the 27th, they did. We decided to go to walmart that morning for some last min things for you. We walked around and the lady who was checking us out at walmart said to me, you look like you are in labor! I said...you know what, I think I am. So we went to grandmas house and told her that we were going to head over to the hospital. When we got there they told me that they thought I had pre eclampsia. So they started me on something called magnesium. It helps so I wouldn't have seizures. Because they gave it to me my contractions stopped all together. Later that night they gave me some meds to get the contractions back up and going again. You didnt like it when I would have contractions and your heart rate would drop really low. About 7 am on the 28th your heart rate dropped very low. I didnt know what was going on. All the nurses and doctors rushed in to try to get your heart rate back up. They were pushing on my belly and they were rubbing it hard to get your heart to go up. They couldnt get it up so they decided to do a c section. I had 15 min to prepare and at 8:15 on Aug 28th you were born! You were a huge baby. You were 8 lbs 5 oz and oh so perfect.

Love you!

Mom