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Reflections on the birth

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Sunday night was a pretty eventful night.   At about 9:00 PM we got our first and only (so far) offer on our house, which had been on the market since March.   We went back and forth and finally agreed on a price.   The next day we were scheduled to go into the hospital for the induction.   So Jennifer on Monday being a very 9 months pregnant hoofed it with our real estate agent to look at 12 houses to buy.   I think this was important.   The hospital finally called us at 9:00 pm to tell us that a bed had opened up.   So we got our bags and headed off.   We got admitted right away.   Jennifer was already dilated to one centimeter and was experiencing contractions already.   She was going to try to have the baby naturally.   I think all the walking helped.   We were trying to do whatever we could to avoid a C-section.   That was the plan if the inducing didn’t work.   For Jennifer’s health, we had to get this baby o...