#dearbaby you of course, like your mama, were fashionably late. On the 5th day past your due date I had a scheduled stress test and sonogram to check up on you. You were just chilling. However, due to some "minor variables" the doctor recommended I be induced the following day. I prayed, others prayed, and I hoped labor would progress on its on. However by the following day you seemed no less motivated to make you grand appearance. So your daddy and I headed into the hospital for my noon induction appointment. I was scared but so grateful to have such an amazing friend in your daddy to go through it all with. At 1:30 Angie, my midwife checked to see how my labor was progressing and asked if I would like her to break my water -something we can discuss in twenty-some years- I did. So she did. By 2:30 I was in real labor. It was intense I could hear voices in the room but they were muffled, similar to sound of Charlie Brown's parents' voices (someday you'll know what I mean) and all I remember thinking was soon none of this pain will matter. At 6:55 Angie came back in to check on us. It seemed you were now ready to meet everyone. So it began. Then at 7:10pm on January 6, 2011 I heard you take you first breath and it took mine. #dearcampbell, Hi. I'm your mama.
