A year ago

A year ago today Amanda felt something. She wasn't sure what the sensation was, but, in the 40 or so weeks of being pregnant, she knew something new was happening. We went to our midwife, Elizabeth, around 5pm, and the prognosis from that was, "you're not going over your due date." (which happened to be Tax Day). Elizabeth was so right. Around 9pm Amanda went into serious labor, which surprised us both, "aren't contractions supposed to be slow at first?!" And we were off to the birthing center around 1am with our doula. Amanda arrived 9cm dilated, though Abigail decided to go back up at some point but, then, she arrived into the world at 8:15 in the morning! But that's tomorrow. Today, let's just relish in the fact that our girl is healthy on this last day of her first year of life.