Our QED.
In other words, it's Latin for "I win, idiots."
Quentin was born January 19th, 2017 at 4:04 pm. I was in labor for almost 12 hours exactly.
You guys... I did it NATURALLY.
I only stress this because I am so inordinately proud of myself for being able to do this. Having a lived a relatively pain-free life... no surgeries, broken bones, etc., I feel like a pain warrior now. I feel like a warrior in general.
I feel like this:
I spent a large part of my pregnancy doing Google searches like this:
I was planning on giving birth naturally, but it's kind of hard to plan for something you have no ability to realistically conceptualize.
I just knew I wanted to give it my best shot.
My next post will be the full story of my labor and Quentin's delivery.
It is one of the most spectacular and hardest things I've ever experienced.
Now that I'm finally feeling a little less like a walking disaster of out of control crying, leaking breasts, and unwashed hair, I'm planning to start blogging more consistently.
Mainly as an exercise in maintaining my sanity because you guys this newborn phase is batshit insane.
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