The Faulk Family

 Here is your typical example of second child syndrome—it has taken me over 3 months to write up Miles’ birth story.   I feel terrible about this (hello mom guilt!), but I guess better late than never! As with Riley’s birth, I was anxious for Miles to be born on time or early because every day he was late would mean one less day before I would have to return to work.   My return to work date was set, regardless of when the baby was born.   Little did I know this baby would be born right on his due date—July 30, 2015!   I first started having regular contractions on Saturday, July 25.   Yup, that’s right…5 days earlier.   They were coming about every 8-10 minutes starting in the early afternoon and continuing until evening.   I was SO EXCITED!    This was it!   And he was coming a few days EARLY!   My excitement quickly died out, however, when evening came and the contractions completely stopped.   Out of...

 A warning in advance--this is really long and detailed, so if you don't want to read a detailed birth story (with pictures), then stop now!  This was an important record for me to make and I didn't want to spare any details. :) Technically the story of my labor begins on Riley’s due date: July 24, 2013.   Because I have to go back to school as a teacher very soon (my first meeting is August 14), I was desperate to see if I could use some “natural” methods to get the labor going.   So, on Wednesday, July 24 around ten in the morning I took about 1.5 ounces of castor oil, which is known to get labor kick started occasionally by basically freaking out your bowels so you have the runs—lovely.   I waited for a few hours but nothing happened at all.   Bummer.   My mother and sister came to Salt Lake and we celebrated Pioneer Day by going to temple square and having lunch at the Lion House.   After lunch I started to have some horrible pains in m...