Labor and delivery

Being that Aria is now 8 months old... here is my narrative of her being born, which I have been trying to get down in bits and pieces for most of that 8 months. I'm sure I lost a lot of the detail in the intervening time, but it's not going to get any clearer unless I set down what I have, so here it is.

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So her official Estimated Due Date was Monday, July 20, 2015.

By then I was having weekly OB appointments for fetal non-stress monitoring, and when I went in that day, he said I was about 1 centimeter dilated, and "OK, I don't want you to go past 41 weeks, so let me look into available scheduling for an induction next weekend if nothing happens before then." By Friday, July 24, nothing significant had indeed happened -- some occasional mild contractions, but nothing that escalated into anything -- and in fact I was still happily at work. So I called the doc again on my lunch hour and he said to come in to the hospital "around 6 or 7 p.m." the next night, Saturday, to start the induction process.

I went back to work and told everyone "no really, today is for SURE my last day since by Monday I should have a baby one way or another". And I came home and had a quiet evening, figuring we'd have all the next day to putter around and finalize everything.

But sure enough, on Saturday, July 25, I ( spontaneously went into labor. )

And then we were three. <3