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in case you missed it...

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Mariana Ruah was born a few weeks early, but healthy and perfectly fine, at 10:40 Saturday night. My water did break Friday morning, so we needed to actually start contractions, but once that kicked in, we just rocked it. I'm totally never doing that again, but it was an amazing, amazing experience!

Things that suck:

*needing cervidil, and then responding ridiculously strongly to cervidil and going from 1cm to 9cm in 90 minutes

*grouchy nurses who yell at you for not letting them bathe the baby

*hemorrhaging and tachycardia

 

Things that don't suck:

*utterly amazing partner, doulas, and midwives who help you through a 7.5 hour labor (said painfully fast progress had the midwives worried about whether this was a good thing or going to need more intervention to slow things down and let my body catch up and deal) with no mention of pain meds (from cervidil to Mariana on my chest, looking at me with sleepy-WTF-just-happened eyes)

*OMG, I have a baby! And she's freaking amazing!

*She's far more of a Winston Churchill-looking baby than a creepy Golem baby, which is a huge relief.

*M has been blow-me-out of the water uh-mazing with her. I am in awe of how this teeny person has changed us into even more of a team. 

*If I can get things hooked up, then I can post pictures, but that's not gonna happen while I have 7 pounds of sleeping on my chest. You'll just have to trust that she's not ugly :)
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Mother's Day, 2011
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