Zeigen

So it was 12:40pm, and I was eating lunch and getting ready for an operations meeting when Kimi called my cell.

“My water broke.”

Oh! Ok! I grabbed my lunch, rushed for the car, headed home while canceling my afternoon meetings, made sure the nanny could watch Sammy and hand him off to Kyrie, made sure Kyrie (our designated Sammy-watcher for the big day — thanks Kyrie!) was alerted and on her way home, packed Kimi’s bags and things into the car, followed her request to load the infant car seat even though I knew we wouldn’t need that for days, and we headed off to the hospital.

Well, long story short, her water hadn’t really broke, and with no contractions, no rupture, and being a month only, it just wasn’t the time yet. Even though Kimi’s very uncomfortable at 8 months pregnant, and even though she wants the baby to be born NOW now NOW, I’m just as glad it isn’t time yet. Sammy will have more time to get used to his new preschool that he starts (two days a week) on the 11th, we have more time to finish up some more projects around the house, and most importantly, Sophie doesn’t have to enter the world some five weeks early and deal with lungs that aren’t quite up to the task of dealing with air yet.

Even though it was just a false alarm, it was a good dry run and a good chance to assess our readiness. It took a lot out of me — all the paperwork and examinations left me pretty exhausted for the rest of the day.

Soon, Sophie, soon. Just not today.

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