“Hi Scott, it’s your mom. Annie’s water just broke. The midwives are on their way, and I wasn’t sure if you wanted to come home?” was how I found out my wife was in labor. I didn’t realize it at the time, though. I got the phone call at my desk at work, while reading email after lunch, and my first thought was that this is what both the midwives and our childbirth class warned us about.

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