San Francisco Bay Area Wedding & Portrait Photographer Blog – Stacey Ann Photography

It was middle morning when Heather called me to tell me that she was going to the hospital to get checked out because she was leaking a little. I couldn’t drive down with her, but I told her that if they were going to admit her that I would pack and bag and meet her down there.

Weeks prior I had talked to Heather about being in the room when she delivers. To my surprise she agreed and I was thrilled. I had never experienced a birth before except for watching those “Birth Day” shows on TLC, but no one needs to tell me that doesn’t even come close to compare to actually being there.

So I received a message about 12pm on February 7 from Heather saying that they were going to admit her and that she was going to be having this baby! So I packed up my laptop, a book and some DVDs and drove down to Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.

Around 4pm my cousin and my aunt showed up and from then on it was a waiting game. I can’t remember the last time, if ever, I’ve pulled an all nighter, but this one wasn’t as hard as I was expecting. It was definitely easier because of the little bundle of joy that would be coming at the end of this long way.

At 4:30am (the next day) she was only 5cm. We were expecting it to go until late that night, but then she started having some brutal contractions and when they checked her at 6:30am (just 1.5 hours later) she had already gone up to 8cm! Me and my aunt thought that it was going to be any time before she was at 10cm and ready to push, but we were wrong. The doctors came in at 7:45am and checked her again and she was 9.5cm…almost 10cm, but not quite.

The pushing didn’t start taking place until about 11:00am. The delivery team arrived in the room at 10:45am and got everything set up and we were ecstatic. Baby Frankie was going to be here soon!

It didn’t take very long from the time that Heather started pushing until the time Frankie was born; although I’m sure to Heather it felt like eternity. Frankie was born at 11:39am on February 8, 2012 weighing in at 8lbs 10oz and 21”.

I’m honored that my cousin and his wife allowed me to witness the miracle of birth. I’ll be forever thankful to them.

Congrats Heather and Steven you made a BEAUTIFUL baby!!!

Below is a video slideshow that I made and below the slideshow are larger images with little descriptions letting you know what was taking place at that specific time.

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