Pregnancy Round 2: Week 37

This post is coming a couple weeks late, but week 37 brought a BIG surprise. I was all prepared to write the normal weekly post about how I was having all kinds of false labor (and how annoying that was!) and how I endured a toddler's birthday party while GROSSLY pregnant, and how I miraculously made it past "THE" date I wanted to make it past - August 19, which is both Owen's birthday and our wedding anniversary.

BUT. None of that happened. At 37 weeks and 4 days, the false labor turned into real labor and baby Bennett Bo Valente was born on August 17, 2014 at 1:17pm. He weighed 8 pounds 7 oz and was 20 inches long... and 2.5 weeks early! Labor story to follow...