Out on the deck, Mort tries to help with Larissa's back labor

Sometimes you have to keep on trying

A state of early morning labor exhaustion

Shannon videotapes Larissa laboring while supported by Charlotte and Mordecai

Patria leads a laboring walk while Charlotte, Larissa, and Mort follow, holding hands

After laboring for 19 valiant hours at home, a combination of circumstances led Larissa to finish giving birth at Dominican hospital in Santa Cruz. A number of the photographs taken of that experience are not suitable for anyone who wouldn't like to see these medical procedures close up, so if you want to skip ahead to the first pictures of the baby in her mother's arms you should CLICK HERE. Otherwise,

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