--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2003-12-31T04:34:30' draft: false title: Happy New Year --- Here comes another year, and it looks like this one might be the most event-filled yet. As a brief cryptic comment posted from the cameraphone last week announced, my wife and I are expecting our first child, due in very early August. We've been looking for a care provider for us who can help us acheive a natural birth, and we have a promising candidate across the state line in South Carolina. We'd wanted a home birth, but those are illegal in Georgia. There is a network of "underground" midwives in the state, but none were close enough to us to be comfortable accepting us as patients, so we adapted the plan a bit. In South Carolina, midwives are legal and state licensed, so there is no sculking around needed. I'm really excited, and more so since my fellow former junta leader [Jason](http://lyson.textamerica.com/) is going through [the same thing](http://lyson.textamerica.com/?r=240320#240320), and only a week or two behind.