Our new little daughter arrived this morning 11 days before her due date! Unlike my last two labors where I woke up from a contraction and three crazy hours later was holding my baby, pretty soon into the day I knew something was happening. Around 5 pm contractions were noticeable and more than just regular bh tightenings. At 8:30 I went to check it out since I knew I generally had fast labors. This was more of a "normal labor" in that over the next few hours I slowly dilated from a 4-5. After that things became more positive. I got an epidural and steadily dilated until we were waiting for the Dr to show up right before 6. Two pushes later I was holding my sweet baby girl!!