Delivery Take Two

4:15 am: wake up call
5:00 am: wake up Amelia and take her to her friend's house for her very first big girl sleepover
6:00 am: arrive at hospital
7:37 am: dilation check, still 5cm, and water broken
8:28 am: Oxytocin started to hurry things along
10:30 am: Nausea-inducing contractions start
11:30 am: Epidural and a little bit of relief
11:45: Dilation check, still 5cm. Tim leaves to get lunch
12:11 pm: very painful contractions continuing, dilation check- 9 1/2cm and 100% effaced
12:12 pm: Tim rushes back
12:30 pm: begin pushing
1:00 pm: Doc leaves because he is "sunny side up" and not moving so I need to rest and see if he will flip
1:05 pm: uncontrollable shaking and teeth chattering continues, making my jaw ache and my speech difficult
2ish? pm: start pushing again, this time he starts moving down
...another break and turn to see if he's flipped
2:15ish? pm: shaking subsides and pushing begins again
2:44: Patrick James joins the world!

7lbs 8oz
21in

Shoulders that felt like a linebacker

A full head of light reddish brown hair

10 fingers and 10 toes, all with long nail beds like his Daddy.

Same lips as his sister

Perfect.