My Story…
On July 26th, I walked into work with contractions. I was 37 weeks and 1 day. In truth, I’d had contractions on and off all pregnancy. I wasn’t sure if this would really be the day. So I went to work anyway. Around 10 am, I called my OB and he told me to walk over to triage to get checked. I was 3 cm but contractions were irregular. They put me on the monitor to watch me for an hour. I tried to work some but ended up on social media. I came across the Friday’s good news post and I just knew. They checked me again and I was 4 cm 100% effaced. Go time! I texted Carter and said let’s have a baby. I couldn’t wait to find out the gender. Although a surprise just 6 months postpartum, we knew the moment I took the test this baby was meant to be. I labored for about 5 more hours and at 5:01 pm we welcomed a baby. A baby BOY.
We later found out James was the only boy born that day. Despite multiple inductions. Some time after he was born, a nurse walked in and brought us this letter with
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