Check out this link:
It is a letter that I sent to the paper about Wendy. It was printed in the letters to the editor section. Here is a copy of the letter:
To the Editor:
I have to tell this story because I am so proud of my wife. She started labor at about 1 a.m. Sunday. She was having pretty steady contractions by 9 am. We wanted to stay at home as long as we could.
We both are pretty passionate about voting and yesterday was the Maine Democratic presidential caucus, we had been looking forward to it for several weeks. I joked with Wendy around 1 that we had to vote, her response was "yes we do". So we went to the local school to cast our vote. We had never been to a "caucus" before and we didn't realize it was a meeting followed by a vote. We waited in line for about 30 minutes to register (she had three contractions while in line)!
At that point we realized the baby could come anytime and that maybe sitting through the whole hour meeting would not be good idea. We spoke to some of the election officials and told them our story. We really wanted to vote but sitting for an hour wasn't going to work. We couldn't wait for his response so we had to leave. We went home a little disappointed that we couldn't vote but we felt good that we did all we could (our forefathers would have been proud). At about 4 p.m. we decided it was time to go to the hospital, on our way out the door the phone rang, it was someone from the caucus. They did some research and due to our circumstances they could allow our vote over the phone. So as we headed out the door we cast our vote. Three hours later Wendy gave birth.
Our baby was born at York Hospital.
Shaun Casey
Eliot
I love this story! Keep a copy of the paper for me!
Posted by: Mom | February 16, 2008 at 08:25 AM
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Posted by: Sistah | February 16, 2008 at 10:57 AM