We had a baby! Adelaide was born Sunday, August 9th at 6:39 a.m. She was--and is a sweet little doll: 6 pounds 6 oz and 19 inches long. On Friday morning I had an appointment with my midwife and she did a membrane sweep. According to various research I did, I knew that if that was going to help labor along it would work within 48 hours. Nothing happened on Friday. On Saturday morning, however, I was feeling kind of sick to my stomach and it didn't go away no matter what I did. Around 6 pm, I felt like there was actually a rhythm to it and I felt like I might actually be having contractions. I started thinking of all the things we needed to do. Around 8 pm I started timing my contractions because I like to measure things like that. The contractions were about 4-5 minutes apart and lasting 45 seconds to a minute and a half long. I spent the evening rushing around, getting things ready. I packed my hospital bag “just in case,” made sure things were mostly clean and organi
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