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Verity Arrives

Verity was born February 22nd, 2019, at 10:28PM. She weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 20 inches tall. The week of February 18th didn't start out looking like it would be too eventful. Kim still had a couple weeks before her official due date, and we were in no hurry to get the baby out, because although Kim has always been excited to be done with those last weeks of pregnancy, we found out that our primary OB/GYN was going on vacation for the next weekend. Kim was still newly recovered from an ankle break in October, and had had a number of other minor pregnancy complications to deal with, so we figured we had the issues out of the way and had a week or two to relax and prep for the delivery. As it turns out, the baby was not going to cooperate with that schedule. Kim started having some minor Braxton-Hicks contractions mid week, and although those don't necessarily indicate that labor is imminent, they seemed to be getting a bit stronger and a bit more frequent. I tried to