Kari Kampakis

Kari Kampakis

The Deep End of Love

The exhilaration of meeting my firstborn child

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Kari Kampakis
Sep 23, 2025
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I should have been exhausted, but I wasn't.

I needed to sleep, but I couldn't.

Instead, I only wanted to look at my new baby girl, an eight-pound miracle named Ella.

After an 18-hour labor, she arrived…

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