Oh my god I am crying so hard over here. What a beautifully story! I think yours should be on the list of birth stories every mother-to-be should read, since you describe things so perfectly.

I really identified with a lot of pieces of your story, especially "how do people do this in hospitals?" and i kept wondering why i wasn't in "laborland" as my childbirth ed teacher had called it. I had to laugh when I read that whole paragraph since I think I said something very similar in my story.

I love your fuzzy pictures, too! Maybe they're not what you wanted, but the way you describe the craziness of your family and the way labor makes you so internal and blurs the outside world, it they just look right!