My parents brought the kids to see us at the birthing center about 5 hours after Miranda was born.  Ellia thinks Miranda is awesome! For n...

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...