Introducing Miranda Kathryn - born at 12:05 p.m. 9 lbs 5.6 oz 21" long Labor got pretty difficult for awhile, probably around 10:30 o...

9:50 a.m. Breaking of the waters definitely picked things up - contractions coming every 2-3 minutes and are pretty intense, but I'm ha...

We've had a change of shift, so I have two new nurses, Connie and Jessica, and a new midwife also, Blair - who was actually the one I w...

7:00 a.m. Arrived at the hospital/birthing center around 6:00 a.m. Had a 20 minute monitoring session, the baby sounds great.  My contracti...

5:15 a.m. Contractions are still 4-6 minutes apart, but now a little over a minute long.  Definitely stronger.   We're gonna head to th...

4:00 a.m.  I called the answering service - the midwife on call is Beth.  There are four midwives in the practice, and Beth is the newest on...

My 5th pregnancy has presented a challenge that I had not yet experienced.  While I have had Braxton Hicks contractions with all of my other...

4:30 She's here!! Arrived at ~3:47 Ok , so I posted at 3:35 last... Rebekah was in the tub and sooooo under control that I thought for ...

3:35 Grant here... Rebekah is doing great, she's dilated at 7cm and has settled into the hot tub. She's trying out different positio...

2:45 - We've been at the Birthing Center for awhile now.....when I got here, they hooked me up to a monitor for 20 minutes or so to make...

12:35 - Headed to the hospital.....I just had a issue with an aura, which is a vision disturbance that precludes a migraine....I laid down a...

10:00 - Contractions are steady at about 4-5 minutes apart....definitely intensifying. I've finally given the answering service a call...

I woke up this morning around 4:30 with mild contractions.....as they continued, about 8-10 minutes apart, I tried to rest until around 5:30...