My son is four days old.
He was born on December 12, 2009, at 9:48pm at the Ottawa General Hospital. And I watched it happen.
My girlfriend’s water broke on Friday, at 9pm. Our plan was to have a friend drive us directly to Ottawa, which would have worked out, but she had unpacked her emergency bag, and as we were stuffing clothes into cloth bags, my girlfriend’s mother arrived and created a panic, so we ended up in an ambulance which took us to the local hospital. On Friday our baby was at 35 weeks and five days. Anything under 36 weeks old means an automatic shuttle to Ottawa.
Because of the hour long drive to Ottawa a nurse took my spot in the ambulance, so I hitched a ride with my friend in her minivan. My mom, who had been at a Christmas party in Ottawa, met all of us at the hospital. Mom and my friend both left soon after arriving… for the rest of the weekend it was just me and my girlfriend.
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