Ben shook his head to signal that she didn't need to apologize. While this certainly hadn't been how he was planning to spend his day, it wasn't as though he could fault her for it. If the baby had been coming, he would have wanted her to tell him as soon as she knew. He wasn't going to begrudge her a false alarm if it meant that he got to be a part of the birth of his child when the time came.

"You didn't know. We haven't done this before," he pointed out. It was a paraphrased version of what the midwife had said; first time mothers often called for a midwife too early.

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