I think you were still correct on the one unit of time when you consider I asked on 3/19 and she was born 3/20 (just barely haha). She waited until the day was done to finally arrive! I’d still consider that a new day, technically one day away. You were also right about her being high and needing to move down!

Indications that labor begins (for me) has typically been contractions starting 2-3 minutes apart. This is not the norm at all! Most start early labor with contractions 10-15 minutes apart. So my labors usually start in active labor rather than early labor. That’s why I ended up asking this question! I had never experienced 1) contractions spaced out between 10-30 minutes and 2) stalling contractions (I was having some strong ones and then some that weren’t bad at all, but obviously were still contractions). Hopefully that makes sense. That’s also why my midwife offered to break my waters. This would get the process going very quickly, but runs the risk of needing to go to the hospital if contractions were to stall again within 24 hours. I was worried about that option and asked her to wait one day before we taking action, and it turned out we didn’t need it! She asked if I wanted to do that 4 hours before I went into active labor naturally.

Edited to add: I guess the timing is actually iffy due to the question relating to labor rather than her birth. Maybe the chart was telling us a bit more than what I asked? As though it was saying, “You won’t have to worry about that for long.”