The baby's here!
I'll try and post pictures soon, and later his birth story...but here's the stats:
8# 13 oz, 21", BOY!

Born at home, naturally.

In bliss,
Kelly

tomorrow's the biophysical profile! i go in around 6.30, and get to 'see' the baby! i am going to threaten the life of the technician so i'll be sure to NOT find out what the baby is at this point... i just can't wait to find out at the birth! i am SO glad we waited!

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here's praying for a healthy baby with lots of fluid and not too many days 'over due'.

k

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have had an emotional day!! but i finished one of the poems i was working on. i am working on a photo project with it. gotta do something with this pregnant belly while i still have it!

Love, me

as you descend,

i will receive you, uplift you, feed you—

shelter you in this new found womb of my arms,

withholding this world with my right,

drawing you further into my heart with my left...

&, although i am limited by my strength alone,

i draw on the strength of the Great Hands

hands that formed me, 

picked me up in shards when I or the world broke me,

and formed me once again.

yes, i draw on this strength like life's first breath,

and find peace, that this same strength shall be with you,

when i can hold you no more.

I love you, baby!

It's the baby that releases the hormone to start labor. Truly, it has nothing to do with me.

:)

Waiting with everyone else...

K

Went to the midwife, she's guessing at least an 8 pounder like the others!!

Please pray the bulk of the weight is in the baby's toes...

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Mother coming over to help with kids. Check
Birth photographer. Check.

Nerves of steel...gulp, uh... Check.

Ha.

Well, actually, we've managed to slow down to snail speed at the Hall homestead, which has been refreshingly WONDERFUL. I can't even manage to get the car over 4o mph, much to the frustration of anyone who's behind me. We've just about got everything ready for the arrival of our new baby, all that's left is to bag the receiving blankets and towels and get them labeled for the oven.

Tomorrow I'll make red raspberry tea, and fill ice cube trays with it. I have a midwife appointment (maybe my last! maybe not!) tomorrow at noon, and it will be a happy time to see her after three or so weeks of her being out of town on travels. I am happy that time allowed her to be refreshed, and that she truly enjoyed her time away without worry...and I am happy my baby decided he or she wanted to wait for her to get home before coming!

I am longing for fall. The sound of crunching leaves, the smell of burning leaves here and there, the shorter days, and (hopefully by November) cooler weather. Maybe it's because I am ready to 'harvest' what we've sown, or maybe I am just ready to skip and jog and touch my toes without grunting or laughing at myself! To be able to reach things I haven't in a while...like the bottom of the washing machine to get that last little sock out and into the dryer. To sleep on my stomach...yes, I see that this list is really nothing about fall whatsoever anymore! Maybe I'll lay on my stomach in a big ol pile of leaves. :) Yeah, that's right.

Yes. I am still pregnant.

:)