After 20 hours of stop-and-start labor that wasn't going anywhere, things started picking up at around 10:30 p.m. and the baby was born at 3:45 a.m. It's a girl, 7 and a half pounds, 21 inches long. The homebirth went fine, my favorite midwife was there as well as another midwife I like. I pushed for about 25 minutes. I passed out the first time I got up to go to the bathroom. The baby latched fine on my left side (nursing side lying since I can't sit up) shortly after birth but has not been willing to nurse on the right since then. I'm exhausted. The hospital has better painkillers and you can press a button whenever you want and get help from someone with medical training who has theoretically been asleep at some point in the last 24 hours. On the other hand, at home there are fewer people messing with you and the ones who are messing with you are people you like and care about, so there's a balance.
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