I was watching Cheaper By the Dozen 2 yesterday. OK. I was *forced* to watch CBTD2 yesterday by my >9 month pregnant wife.

In it, a very pregnant Piper Perabo has her water break while competing in the final event for the Camp Crystal Lake cup or something. (Oh, I forgot - ***SPOILER ALERT*** - if you don't want to know how CBTD2 turns out you should stop reading. I know I wish I didn't know how it turned out.) Within minutes she's carried to the camp hospital and her baby is out and looking three months old in about an hour.

My lovely wife has been having contractions off and on for a month. It's a bit of a sore subject when TV/movie women give birth minutes after their first contraction. Just wanted to give all of you the real info: it doesn't happen like that. At all.

It's much more like the story of Sisyphus than anything else.