Steve and Jenny Valentine

This is a long post. But many of you have asked about the story of Milo's arrival. So I wanted to take time to write it out, details and all. But  for those who don't want to read the entire story with all the details, feel free to scroll through and just look at the pictures! A lot of you were shocked to hear of his arrival...so were we! (After all, we were still 25 days out from his due date when he made his appearance). I had just gone to my 36 week checkup two days prior, all was healthy and well with baby and with me and there were no signs of early labor. At that appointment, the doctor said that I was 1 cm dilated, but honesty I knew I could be at that for several weeks before seeing any progress to labor. I had a long list of nesting projects I had been slowly working on and was hoping to finish before Milo’s arrival.  Thursday morning rolled around, I realized I was beginning to show signs of possible labor nearing, but still wasn’t too alarmed just yet, after all...

Our little Olivia Noël arrived on February 25, just two days shy of big brother, Isaac's, second birthday. Like the other two kiddos she came early. I kept telling anyone who asked that I expected her to arrive sometime during my 38th week of pregnancy, and even though I hoped for that, I was preparing myself to possibly be pregnant longer. In fact, the day before I went into labor I was having a conversation with a friend and said,"I don't know what it would be like to be pregnant past 39 weeks!" It's always exciting (to me anyway) to experience each individual story of coming into the world, so here's her story. *For those who don't want TMI and to see the story in pictures, scroll on down past my lengthy story telling ;) On Monday, February 24th I went to my 38 week check up by myself (thank you mom for being here with the kiddos!)  In going to my 38 week appointment, I was hoping I would be about 3 cm dilated (because that's what I had been a...