I post each of these entries on social media and I think am careful about not revealing or sharing too many details about you or your sibling. I want to protect your anonymity in case you never want to be associated with this document, and given that many people that you see in your daily life read this, I try to be careful about sharing the more personal details.
This week we have been leading up to your 18th birthday. Each day I have been going over the timeline 18 years ago and thinking about where I was and what I was doing. For example, your initial due date came and went already. 18 years ago after your due date passed, I did everything in my power to try and induce labor on my own. Bumpy car rides, excessive walking, drinking castor oil, eating pineapples, intercourse (sorry but it is true), but nothing seemed to work. On this day 18 years ago, I went to the hospital for a check-up because at that point my Braxton Hicks contractions were intense and they told me that nature would take its course any minute, They assured me if it didn’t they would not let me go past the 10th and we made an appointment at that time for a planned induction. Obviously given your birthday you know how that went.
If you had asked me 18 years ago, what I would think about today, I would have said back then that we would never get to today because you were never going to be born. I also might have said I will be lucky if this kid gets to 18 because it (I actually called you it, because I didn’t know your gender) has been trying to kill me this whole pregnancy and I am not sure either of us is going to make it. In my wildest dreams when I pictured 18 years into the future, I never would have predicted the thing that happened today. But because truth is stranger than fiction and today happened.
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Happy 18th to both of you.
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