Around 4AM on January 27 Sarah’s water broke. She was having small, easy contractions. I asked her if she was going back to sleep, and she was. So I happily shut my eyes.
We woke up at 6:30 and were starting to get antsy. We went for our last walk together as a party of two. Sarah enjoyed some time on the swing and we watched the sunrise.
The rest of the morning was filled with errands. Clean litter, pack bags, clean dishes, etc. Around 9ish we headed to the midwife to get checked out. She confirmed that Sarah’s water had broke, and she felt the labor was going to progress pretty fast. We still went back home, but she didn’t want us to wait too long.
Sarah and I watched Spaceballs together and she found the last quarter of the movie significantly less funny than the rest of it. Her contractions were getting serious and so we got serious too. Sarah lay down and together we relaxed her body and worked through each one.
At about 5 minutes apart we headed to the hospital. Sarah seemed to think it was the furthest hospital she had ever driven to. When we got there, Sarah walked herself to her room. We stopped for two contractions along the way.
We checked into the hospital around 3PM. The midwife immediately checked Sarah out and she was already 9CM dilated. A few hours of work and at 5:25 Hope was born.
