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Asa James O'Brien

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I want to preface this by saying, if you are uncomfortable talking about/seeing labor and birth and anything of the like, you probably shouldn't read this. I'm not going to get crazy and show the world my business but I am going to post a few pictures from when I was in labor and when my son was born.  It's been eight months since Asa was born. I can't believe it. But I want to take some time and go back to 8 months and 2 days ago.  October 24, 2018. 40 weeks, 4 days pregnant.  1:00AM I began having period like cramps. They started out mild so we turned a movie on and I tried to get some sleep. I wasn't able to get comfortable enough to get real sleep as the cramping was happening about every five minutes.  5:30AM After having period like cramps and not getting much rest, I began having actual contractions that were 4-5 minutes apart.  7:30AM Levi called the on-call midwife and she advised that we come in for a check up.  8:20AM I was having con