Born: 07.03.13 12:06 am
Weight: 8lb 4oz
Height: 21 in

It was a long time coming, but the end result was worth it. Beth’s water broke early Sunday morning, but her contractions didn’t begin until around 2pm. It took us all the way to around 10pm on Monday before the doctors felt that Beth could start pushing. Not everything was right, though, and after an hour and a half later Beth was rushed into the operating room for an emergency cesarean section. Those 30 minutes were longer to me than the previous day and a half…standing outside the operating room dressed in scrubs and waiting to be told that I could enter. But I finally got to sit by Beth, and together we heard a sudden baby’s cry, and at last knew that Evelyn Rose was with us in this world.