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Happy Birthday Ryan!!

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Amazing my 'baby' turned 7 today, he had a bit of a rocky debut, was my hardest pregnancy to date - but is the most empathetic little boy we know! Ryan's Debut Ryan Andrew Kenneth was born Wednesday October 31st at 3:40am. Tiny guy weighed 5 pounds 8 ounces and was 18 3/4 inches long. For weeks I had been seeing stars, dizzy and had some blood pressure issues - but the OB kept putting me off saying I had to "rest more!" October 30th I went to my OB app't and was sent to the hospital to be checked out because I had high blood pressure and more than a trace of protein in my urine. I was finally induced Tuesday night at 9pm, first by using some gel. I was only 1cm dialated, so we figured I was in for a long night. Throughout the labor, my blood pressure was up and down, and Ryan's heartrate was doing the same thing. I kept having to move around to get his heartrate back up. Around 11:30p, they told me that there was a C-Section about to start - so I asked fo...