He is 2 years and 8 months old. We are still breastfeeding, but a lot less than even just a few weeks ago. He is more or less night weaned now, which is an accomplishment that we achieved in the past couple of weeks. I am mostly happy about it. It means more sleep (or more stolen time to work and write blog posts) for both of us.

As contractions came, and throughout the entire labor, I had an internal dialogue going on in my head.  It was such a different experience, I was present in the room and could hear the conversations and what my mom or Brian were saying to me but I felt as if I was in my own little world.  I kept going back to the birth stories I had read in Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin and repeating a lot of the positive affirmations that women used in those stories.