After over 14 hours of hard labor, Ahlisha looked at me and said, "I'm sorry, Susan. You've been here so long." I told her not to worry about it because it's all a part of the job and I didn't want to miss any of her story, and then she replied, "It's not much of a story." I was with Ahlisha at 3 AM in her home for three hours until she went in to the hospital. We didn't know it at the time, but when she handed her birth plan to the nurses, she might as well have included, "Do everything the…
