Tonight, friends of ours are going to the hospital to have a baby! It’s a scheduled induction because she is HUGE a little large (they think a 9+ pounder) for gestational age. I am going to have the extreme pleasure of being with them when baby girl arrives!

Linda says I tend to be one of the few people that can help her stay calm when she would otherwise not be calm and she wanted me to be there. I’m completely honored that they are letting me share this with them. I joke that I am really there to keep Don alive, because as we know, natural childbirth (she wants to go for it!) can create an environment of such pain that you don’t exactly know what you might say (well, for me it did).

Linda wasn’t sure she’d ever have children until she met her beloved. Then BAM! She thinks this will be her only opportunity to have a biological child and she feels extremely lucky and blessed and blissful. It’s been wonderful to be a part of her transformation from single gal to awaiting mother.

So they are being admitted (after pizza!) at 8:00 tonight and after they settle in and find out what is going on with the timing of the induction I will join them as a 2nd coach for Linda.

How exciting to be part of such an amazing thing. It brings me back.

Push Linda! Push! I can’t wait to meet Sweet Baby Tessa!