I sit here with a fresh one week old on my chest, thinking just how very grateful I am to be writing this out. Finley’s birth story begins with her siblings’, as one birth story effects another. I feel like I’ve come full circle in this moment. I gave birth to my first daughter by cesarean, after an intended unmedicated birth center birth. We had to transfer to hospital after 30 hours of labor, because the midwives felt that my cervical lip and exhaustion required an epidural