Yeah, I avoid a lot of those tragic birth shows - but at the same time I already have the info in my noggin because I worked in Early Intervention. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I worked with the /exceptions/ and not the /norms/ (but it's hard when it was all I saw for 3 years). A former EI coworker of mine just had a healthy baby on her due date and she e-mailed me recently to say that she was also terrified of preterm labor, largely because of work.

Thank you for your positive stories. If you end up collecting the back rent, tell me how!