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Well we are parents… After one month at the hospital with PROM (Premature Rupture of Membranes), Ian was born at 32 weeks. He was born August 27th at 8:50pm during a lunar eclipse.
I was in labor from Sunday around 10pm until Monday when I finally told the Midwife to come and see me. At that point (6pm) I was already 8cm and ready to have the baby. I thought I just had a backache from laying in bed for so long but I was actually in labor, they said I must have high pain tolerance… Aaron was great during labor and delivery, he helped me to breath and held my hand when I needed him.

The birth was all natural and so beautiful, it is an amazing thing to give birth, so empowering. I had a great support team, a Doula, a Midwife, and an amazing nurse that we have made aunt to Ian.
We left the hospital 14 hours after the birth since I really needed to see the kitties and come home to rest in my own bed without nurses coming in to check my vitals every 3 hours…
Ian stayed at the NICU for a couple weeks and recovered super fast on mother’s milk. He is a strong little guy and has been developing just like any 5 month old baby. We are super delighted with him and look forward to feeding him with a spoon at the end of next month when he will be 6 months already.

There are lots of pictures of the little guy on our flickr site, check it out!
After 4 months not sleeping more than 3 hours in a row this 5th month has been glorious. Ian is sleeping a lot and just wakes up for some milk and falls right back to sleep. He is usually a slug bug in the mornings until 9 or 10 which offers me time to get ready for the day.