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Birthstory: Nora Lee

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Nora is 4 months old today and I want to write this all down while it is still fresh in my memory. My pregnancy was relatively easy. Up until my third trimester anyways, then stress caused my blood pressure to skyrocket several times which resulted in three overnight hospital stays. The fourth and final hospital stay started out just like the others- I took my blood pressure and it was high so I decided to lie down and continue to check it. My mom came over since I was home alone (it was a Saturday evening and Steven was working) and helped monitor me and eventually made the decision that we should go in. It was already 8pm so I was resistant at first because I knew it would mean yet another overnight stay. And I was right. My husband was closing but came from work as soon as he got off and brought a few a things to me and then I sent him back home since he needed to wotk again the next morning. I was very much under the impression that I would be discharged sometime the next day and j