ABRAM MICHAEL EWERTZ
10/14/12 @ 11:04 PM
weight:  7 lbs 2 oz
length:  20 in
head 13.75

Abram you blessed us with your presence at 36 weeks and 4 days!!  You had been giving momma contractions for 2 weeks prior to your appearance.  When I went to see Dr. Douthit on 10/2/12 I was dilated to a 3 and effaced to 80%.  Dr. Douthit was not worried just concerned that if my water broke we would not make it to the hospital.  So momma and daddy were nervous about what to watch for.  So for the next 2 weeks, momma just relaxed worked and laid around.  But the weekend you were born, mom had scheduled a surprise 30th party for daddy and daddy was running a 1/2 marathon.  Mommy was feeling good, she tried to get in to see Dr. Douthit on Friday the 10/12, but he was out of the office.  After daddy's party, Sat was low key and we prepared for daddy's race.  He did awesome!!!  Almost making his goal of under 2 hours.  He run it in 2 hours and 4 minutes.  Mommy sad to daddy on the way to Nana and Papa's ok guess we have accomplished everything on the calendar we can have a baby. so at Nana and Papa's mommy laid around and wanted to go home.  After 2 hours of contractions 5-7 minutes apart, Mommy called the doctor and the nurse said that I was already an hour behind and needed to get to the hospital.  Nana and Aunt B came and got Corryn and we were off.  Mommy was positive they would send us home.  But they observed us FOREVER!!!  We checked in at 1:45 PM Sunday 10/14.  After an hour, we had made progress and were dilated to a 4, then we took a break and nothing happened.  Still registering contractions they observed for an hour.  They tried to stop the contractions with Tylenol and benadryl.  This made the contractions stronger.  The resident was going to try a different medication and mommy made sure they got ahold of Dr. Douthit to  see if he was in town.  He had promised to be there if he was in town and we had not talked about stopping anything.  At this point I had progressed to 5-6 and was staying.  Although mommy kept asking if there was a possibility if they would send us home.  The said NO.  Aunt B came and we hung out while mommy had contractions.  Epidural was given at 8:45 PM and we just waited.  Dr. Douthit came up and everything was smooth from then on out. Everything was very calm.  I pushed a few times and you came out with your face up so you had some bruising but Dr. Douthit pulled you out and covered up you little wiener so we couldn't tell if you were a boy or a girl!!!  He said, "Got one more guess?"  Not going to lie I was still  a little surprised you were a boy!!!  Daddy, Mommy and Big Sister Corryn are so excited about you and love you to the moon and back!!!