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Another blessing

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We celebrated our one year anniversary of living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with the birth of our third son. Owen Palmer arrived on October 13, 2012 after a very quick labor and delivery, so quick that there was no time to administer any pain medicine. Having a "natural" drug-free child birth was something I had hoped for in my last two pregnancies, but it didn't quite work out that way. Since I had gotten the epidural with both of the other boys, right before pushing, I was not exactly prepared for the level of pain that I would endure. For those of you reading who want pain medication, ask early ladies. There was actually a moment, well I think there were several moments, where I thought "This is it, I'm dying." I don't know if there can be any greater physical pain, and yet I am fully aware that for centuries, women have done it this way and even now in our modern world many are choosing this route. I think the couple of pushes to get hi...