SEQUIM — A stroke of luck has brought Army Sgt. Andrew Heydon home from Iraq for two weeks’ leave, just in time for the birth of his first child.

Heydon, 27, and his wife, Annamarie, are expecting their baby — a boy already named Jack — this Tuesday.

That’s a week before Heydon is scheduled to return to Al Asad, where he was deployed back in November.

Annamarie, looking serene beside her husband, is taking no chances with an overdue birth.

She plans to go to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles for labor inducement on Monday.

In her six years of marriage to Andrew, Annamarie has been through two deployments.

Her husband served his first tour in Iraq from November 2003 to November 2004, and then came home to Sequim to work as a firefighter and emergency medical technician with Clallam County Fire District 3.