This is the story of how our daughter, Luna Camila, came into the world. *Disclaimer: If you're not someone who enjoys birth stories or hospital stories, or gets triggered/anxious from hearing the details of these, this post may not be for you. Photos by Adriana Brito In The Home Stretch It was a warm, balmy Friday night in Miami. October 6th, to be precise. I was at a restaurant celebrating a friend's birthday, and I was as pregnant as it gets. It felt good to be out, and I sensed this feeling as I drove to the restaurant that this would be my last hurrah before our daughter arrived. I was still about a week out from our due date, and I was feeling it. Sleep was a gamble thanks to heartburn and incurable hip pain that no amount of pillow-propping could manage. Earlier that week, the Braxton-Hicks contractions were all over the place...in fact, just the day prior, they increased to an intensity for a few hours in the morning that made me think, is today the day?? But alas, a...
Hey there friends! I can't believe we are already celebrating one month with Jackson James. I said I would share our birth story, so without further ado, here it is! *Disclaimer: If you're not someone who enjoys birth stories or gets triggered by hearing all the details, this post may not be for you. But I hope our story helps someone else as they prepare for their first baby, as many other stories helped me prepare for the arrival our little boy (and by prepare, I really mean surrender - to God's plan, to the pain, to the timing, all of it). Still Waiting... As I sat there on my couch on my 40th week of pregnancy, I stared at the little devotional book sitting on our coffee table: Waiting in Wonder by Catherine Claire Larson. "Waiting in wonder?" I thought to myself. "More like waiting in weariness." I was so tired. I was still working full time and it was becoming hard to focus. Financially I was feeling overwhelmed. I was also growing anxious because...