I forgot to tell the part of the story about Mom and Heidi! We had all been hoping that the baby would arrive before they left, and so when I started having regular contractions on Thursday afternoon, we called United Airlines to see what the options were for postponing their flight. What a total nightmare!! In short, it looked like any option would cost nearly twice the price of the original ticket itself and so we couldn't afford to change them.
They were scheduled to leave at 1pm on Oct 19th, which means leaving our house for the train station to get to the airport at about 9:30am. We had already said goodbye to them on Thursday night when we left for the birth center, and that was awful. They each went to sleep that night with a phone by the bed so that we could let them know the news when there was news! But the night passed with no phonecall to them. At 8:15am, I told Rhodri that he should probably call them to let them know that there was still no baby. As he was going for the phone to do this, my water finally broke and 34 minutes later, Tryfan arrived!
Rhodri was able to catch Mom and Heidi on the phone before they left for the train station and let them know the good news! Yay! So then Heidi and Mom spent the entire trip to the airport scheming. In the end, they were lucky enough to get a sympathetic United counter lady who let them delay their flight until Saturday morning with only a $200 fee (each). So Mom and Heidi left their bags at the airport and took the train back into Oslo, then visited us at the birth center! It was such a happy reunion. Rhodri, Tryfan and I rested for a few more hours after Mom and Heidi left the birth center for Asker, and then we joined them back at home around 6:30pm.
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Happy reunion!
Ashlee
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