June 19, 2023 is the day that everything changed, for the better. And here is the story. I got up to pee that Monday morning at 6am (and was hoping to go back to bed lol) but I stood up and my water broke. I called my midwives and they said that I could wait at home and see what happened in the next few hours as long as I could feel the baby move and then go in at 10am and they would assess me. By 8:30am, I was having some contractions and they went from 20 minutes apart to 5 minutes apart by the time we were leaving for the hospital. They hooked me up to monitors but didn't think I was in pain enough to be in active labor so they said I could go home and labor from there for a bit. (Said "just try to distract yourself!" - yeah right...) We went home but the contractions were 2.5 to 3 minutes apart and I couldn't do anything else to distract myself. (Tried lying down to rest, bounced on the yoga ball while watching Cake Boss.) I finally decided to go back to the hosp...