Dear Jeremy:
I really enjoyed reading about your memories of Roy and where you were born. I always rely on calendars and other paper recording devices for a lot of facts, etc. which I don't have here to jog my memory.But I can tell you a few things about the day you were born.
Since you and Kelly have experienced having a baby, you will understand some of these facts. With your birth, my water broke about2 am the day you were born. That is a very interesting experience--I awoke because it felt like I had wet the bed. Of course, I knew that it meant that my water had probably broken, but I wasn't having any contractions yet, so we called the doctor to see what we should do. He said to go to the hospital and be checked out. We had previously arranged with Uncle Craig & Aunt Judy that if we needed to go to the hospital in the middle of the night they would come over and stay with Jason and Amy.
At the hospital they confirmed that my water had indeed broken, and admitted me. It was a rainy day and the nurses said that the change in barometric pressure usually brought a lot of births. It was a busy day at the hospital. They started me on the pit drip, to speed up the birth process since it is not good to go very long after the water has broken. The contractions would usually start on their own after the water breaks, but they hurried it along. I was very comfortable--I also had an epidural before your birth. I remember that Dad was very sleepy as he waited in the room with me.
You were born just before 9 a.m., if I remember right maybe 8:56 a.m..The exact time is written in your baby book. You were a cute little guy--but then you have seen the photos. You had the most hair of all of our babies. I think you weighed 8 lbs 2 ounces. The exact ounces is also written in your baby book. But it was only a little bit more than 8 lbs., if anything more.
I don't remember anything specific about what was happening in the town, country, or the world at that time. Being a mother of a 3 yr.old and 2 yr. old and having a baby, I was pretty much out of the loop of world affairs. I was plenty busy just taking care of things at home.
You were the best baby we had up to that point. You ate every 4hours, slept at night only getting up to eat and then went right back to sleep. You were happy and smiley and made me feel like I had finally figured out how to be a good mother. And it was all you--not me at all. I learned that later.
I hope any of that is useful for your history project. As I read all you had written earlier, I realized that I am not going to be able to do this project this year while serving as a missionary. I will require much more thought, as well as looking at records that I have at home, to be able to write down what I would want to write down. So maybe next year I will try it, but I will enjoy reading your blog, and I am happy to help if I can. Oh, and what you have written is correct as far as I can remember.
Good luck--Love, Mom
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