Amy Klobuchar was exhausted, exhilarated, shaken by a dizzying mindstorm of joy and pain. She'd been in labor for 18 hours, hadn't slept in two nights, and now she'd given birth to Abigail and life was everything it could ever be. The baby "had all her fingers and toes and seemed quite healthy, except for some mucus in her throat," Klobuchar recalled.