The only times I left the house were for my OB appts and to see the Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist. We were thrilled with the numerous ultrasounds where we got to see Baby C doing flips and stretching limbs. Yes, Baby C. Because we're those crazy parents who didn't want to know until D-Day.
At 36 weeks, back to work I went (since I work at the hospital where I would be delivering). I worked part-time and really.....did very little work. It was nice to be out of the house and seeing my coworkers, but I didn't work very hard.
On January 27, my last day of work before my Feb. 2 scheduled c-section, I noticed and unfamiliar trickle as I got out of the bathtub. With some weird intuition, I packed my hospital bag and left it on the bedroom floor. I told Hubby that I would check in with the doc when I got to work but I was sure it was nothing. I even texted my BFF on the way to work and asked her advice, thinking I was over-reacting.
The OB saw me right away and told me the trickle was amniotic fluid! My water had broken!! After a quick check and some monitoring, she told me I was 3cm dilated and having back-to-back contractions!! WHAT THE HECK?? I asked if I would make it until my schedule c/s next week, and she replied "honey, you're having this baby before lunch"!
God works in mysterious ways. Had I been made to keep the scheduled appt, I would not have slept for days before and worried myself into a frenzy. Its best that this all happened without me being able to over-think it.
Precious Baby was born into this world on January 27 with a joyous shout "Its a boy"!!
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