One year ago today...PART 1

Emerson's due date was August 3, 2008. I had been working from home the days following, in hopes of labor pains. Despite Jason's pleas to not go alone, I was going on at least 3 one-mile walks in hope of speeding things up. And I added Frank's hot sauce to everything.

After pleading with my doctor after multiple appointments with no progress of dilation or effacement, he finally agreed to schedule an induction for 7pm on August 6. So, it was very likely that Baby Z would be born the morning of Thursday, August 7. Tuesday night (August 5) Jason and I settled into the evening and talked about how that was the last evening we would have in our house without a baby...how the sounds would be so different in the house going forward...and that after *tomorrow* our lives would be forever changed. During my last visit on Monday of that week, my doc prescribed Ambien (again after tears) since I had told him I'd hardly slept in 3 nights. I was so excited at the promise of comfortable sleep and was out like a light.

[TO BE CONTINUED...]