Our Abigail

Told by: Elizabeth

My water broke on 7-15-13 at 10:30pm. She was kicking her father as we talked to her about an hour after that but passed away sometime before midnight when my midwife arrived. After 30 hours of aggressively induced labor, Abigail Elena Higareda was born on 7-17-13 at 4:46 am, weighing 9lbs 8oz and 23 inches long.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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We are born of love; Love is our mother.

— Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

— Rumi

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

— Ram Dass

I’ve had a baby. I’ve had an abortion.

— Jemima Kirke

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It’s the child that’s remembered.

— Freeman Dyson

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