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Shelby Martin had her birth plan meticulously mapped out — but life had other plans in store for her

The Tennessee-based mom's son entered the world in July, weighing nearly 13 lbs., becoming the "largest baby" delivered at HCA Healthcare’s TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital in years

The happy news comes one year after the boy mom experienced an unimaginable loss on her birthday

Shelby Martin had her birth plan meticulously mapped out — but life had other plans in store for her.

The Tennessee-based mom, 30, tells PEOPLE that she had the "perfect birth plan" in place for the delivery of her fourth baby. She wanted skin-to-skin contact right after birth, delayed cord clamping, and most of all the "vaginal delivery I'd always imagined." However, that all changed when she wa

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