OK...enough with the melancholy memories! The morning of the day Alicia was born, started off as normal day. Except Cathie told me her water had broken over night but she felt no contractions thus she went back to sleep. When she told me, we talked about what should we do since she was not feeling anything. We settled on 'better safe than sorry' so we headed into the hospital.
Everything moved very quickly when we arrived. It progressed so rapidly that they did not have time to set in an epidural even though she wanted it. This was gonna be au naturale. Once her contractions started, Alicia arrived 90 minutes later.
When they placed Alicia on Cathie right after birth, they asked for her name. Cathie and I had a short list of names, but instead Cathie said Alicia. I was surprised, so I asked her how she wanted to spell it. I ended up spelling the name as I recall a HS friend had spelled it. Kinda cool...almost a palindrome.
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