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Unlocked: Baby Lyra is Here!  My Little Girl Is Here!  8lbs,
3oz, 20 inches, and absolutely beautiful!  Many of you probably
won't remember me, but I've been dealing with a rough ride these
past months with work craziness, my daughter starting preschool,
and a huge amount of stress and physical stuff tied to my second
pregnancy (several scares about pre-eclampsia, although
everything ended up ok).  My daughter, Lyra, was only born three
days ago, and in an unanticipated turn of events, I ended up
doing the "natural childbirth thing."  Now, I'm not going to
gross you out here or go into gory details, but doing childbirth
without interventions like painkillers is basically Life On
Extreme Hard Mode.  Giving birth is kind of like horde mode in
Gears of War.  You have waves and waves of pain, although there
are some minute breaks from time to time, only they get more and
more difficult to ride out.  I'm not one of those people who is
against pain man