Michaela

Thursday May 22nd started like any other day. I had started to feel kind lousy the day before but with no real sign of labor I packed up and headed off to work as usual. After working for a couple of hours I headed off to my scheduled 39 week OB appointment where I was a checked out, fine, but definitely not in labor. Once I got back to work I started to feel something that felt a lot like contractions, but having just come from the doctor's office I didn't think much about it, which started the world's craziest 4 hours...

12:00 - wrapped up my last meeting of the morning and headed out to meet a team member for lunch (who's currently on maternity leave) so I could be sure to chat with her before I went on leave
12:15 - started to time contractions during lunch when I realized they were coming more regularly
12:30 - let my team member know that it was probably time to head home, but politely declined a ride to the hospital. Let Alex know it was time for him to come home too.
12:45-1:30 - Alex and me furiously cleaned out our inboxes and put up out of office responses as fast as we could. Called Caroline to come up from Chicago, called mom to let her know we were heading in.
2:00 - Arrived at Triage
2:45-Roomed
3:18 - Michaela Rose Provan was born (and named).
4:00 - Michaela finished up nursing so we finally got a height/weight - turns out she was born exactly the same size as Charlotte! 7 lbs 15 oz, 21 inches.
4:30 - Michaela and me cleaned up, packed up, and headed up stairs to the postpartum unit

It wasn't until later that night once Alex had gone home to check in on Charlotte that I had a chance to sit back and actually look at this amazing little life that Baby A had transformed into. Turns out she's just as awesome as we thought :o)