by Sara McGinnis posted in Pregnancy

When Lauren from Arlington, Texas, went into labor with her third child it was a beautiful morning. Hours later she found herself asking her birth team how strong the skylight above her head was. As it turns out, not as strong as everyone thought.
Take a look at the footage captured by KE Documentary, which begins with Lauren laboring outside as a light breeze blows. Notice how loudly you can later hear the hail and then shortly after Lauren is having contractions in a much smaller room.
What appears as a somewhat calm change of location in the video felt anything but for Lauren, whose daughter Jordan was also at the birth. Here she describes the frightening moment glass came raining down in her room: "I drifted into hearing the noise from outside again. And I realized it was a lot louder. I opened my eyes to look up at the skylight and saw pallets of hail hitting it. The sound got louder and louder. I calmly asked them if the skylight was going to break over the top of us and if I needed to move. I remember them saying no and that it was a double pane window and a few seconds later in what seemed like a simultaneous moment ? the sound of breaking glass echoed through the room and the midwife and Doula and Daddy launched me off of the bed in unison!
"Tornado sirens blared out and we all knew without speaking that we were taking cover. The momentum from being launched off the bed in one swoop carried us almost through the door ...