Seven days ago my water broke and I was admitted into the hospital around ten in the morning. After a day of waiting, a few hours of screaming pain followed by a few hours in an epidural lull, and an hour and a half of pushing... My first daughter was born. I named her Penelope Lane. She was six pounds six ounces, and nineteen and a half inches long. She was four days early, and born at three twenty nine AM. I cried when I first held her. I cry a lot these days.