Since my recollection of one week ago today is much different than Mommy and Daddy's, I thought I'd let Mommy do a guest post. *** Here is the story of how Della Jolee Rau came into the world, from her mommy's eyes... Last Saturday night I went to bed around 11:30 and started getting really sharp pains in my very lower back. I'd been having a sore back while sleeping for the past couple weeks, so thought nothing of it, especially since it still went away when I got up, went to the bathroom, and went back to sleep. But I was up a lot more that night than usual, and the pains were worse than usual. I finally got up again at 5:30 Sunday morning and just stayed up because I was annoyed with waking all the time, and by then the pains had moved around to the front to be super low cramps. It almost felt like even my hip bones were sore they were that low. So I showered, threw in some laundry, and did a little cleaning, all the while thinking I could just take a nap and catch up on sleep once the cramps subsided. Good thing I shaved my legs in that shower too, ha! ;) The cramps got more intense, but stayed very randomly spaced, so the last thing I was thinking was labor pains - I just thought I was going to have diarrhea at some point that morning (sorry, gross I know). By about 8 I woke Ryan and just said I feel like crap with these cramps and didn't get any sleep last night, so I might have to call the doctor this morning to see what's going on. Of course right away he thinks baby is coming, but I was still not even considering that and just thought I was about to poop any second. I finally called the doctor at 9 (I had to get my chores done first!), and the on-call doctor called me back at 9:15; my regular doctor was on vacation last week and into this week, of course. So I explained to her what I'd been feeling, and how now I'd started having some bloody mucous. That had tipped me off that I *might* be having some labor signs with all this, but I was still totally thinking it's just cramps, nothing more. So she said if the contractions get stronger and are about 3-5 minutes apart for an hour to go ahead and go in to labor & delivery, or if I start having heavy bleeding to go in. As soon as she said "contractions" I thought wait a minute, I said I'm having cramps, not contractions! Anyway, I told Ryan what she said, he said, "I bet this is the start of it", and he went to shower up and continue to snooze on the couch while we waited. At 9:45 I was sitting on our futon, since it was the only…