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Labors of love

Your babies. Your stories of childbirth. In your own words.

Compiled by Kimberly A. PorrazzoPublished: January, 2010

When we asked you, our readers, to help us select this issue’s cover baby, we were overwhelmed with responses! You sent photos. You voted on your favorite pictures. Your friends and family joined in the effort. The result is the great cover photo of Hadley Ann Robitaille, now 18 months old, from Aliso Viejo. Read the story of her arrival.   
                               
When we stepped back and looked at this mosaic of babies, it was clear that children all enter our world in their own unique way; one arrived at just 26 weeks, others by emergency C-section; one was even delivered underwater!   

As personal a journey as childbirth is, mothers are united in their desire to share their stories. We decided to let our readers tell their own stories of childbirth in this, our Big Baby issue – in their own words…


                  




















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