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Neil's Birth Story

Mr. D and I welcomed baby Neil Wednesday May 10 at 3:15p. I went into labor a month earlier than my due date, but thankfully we were over-prepared parents with most of the things we needed, so we got to enjoy having Neil just in time to celebrate Mother's Day. On Tuesday May 9, Mr. D and I attended the VIP Grand Opening event for a restaurant called Cafe Rio. I had been having some lower back pain since earlier at work that day, but assumed it was normal "body-getting-ready-for-labor" signs and no idea that I would go into labor that evening. After Mr. D and I ate, I attended a church Relief Society activity. I felt worse than usual at the end of the activity, so I called Mr. D on the drive home to complain about my lower back pain and talk my way through it. While I had been at the activity, Mr. D had decided to put the carseat in the car, which was a job he had kept putting off because it made having a baby "too real".  At home I drank a tall glass...