Pam and Jim, and the Dunder Mifflin staff, await the arrival of the baby.

All it took for “The Office” to get back on track was 19-plus hours of hard labor.

The arrival of little Cecilia Marie Halpert finally came after parents Jim and Pam delayed the inevitable as long as they could, so as to get the best HMO benefit.

“The Delivery  Part 1 and Part 2″ opens with Dwight lecturing the expectant parents about exploiting their upcoming baby for sales. He does, however, admit he would welcome a baby and confesses to a propensity to waking up cradling a gord.

And haven’t we all been there before …

Dwight elicits Angela’s help in helping him bear a child for “business reasons,” instructing her to meet him at their old hook-up spot where they can “bang it out.”

(Gotta remember that line the next time my wife says I never talk romantically to her.)

While Jim admits Pam is in charge – comparing himself to the left tackle who just happened to get the quarterback pregnant – he gently tries to convince his bride to go to the hospital.

Michael can hardly contain his excitement about Pam’s “contrapments” and welcomes the chance to be the master of distraction, keeping her mind off her pain.

In a staff-wide effort to distract Pam, Andy does the You Tube “Evolution of Dance” dance (without music, of course) and Erin names famous horses. Thankfully, Phyllis’ offer to put on her lipstick ”like Molly Ringwald in the Breakfast Club” is summarily rejected.

With Pam’s contractions two minutes apart, she finally relents and is driven to the hospital by Michael with the help of an escort by Dwight in his supercool Camaro.

Stuck in traffic, Dwight pulls out the cherry and places it on his roof – ala Starsky and Hutch – and is promptly busted. As he throws incriminating items – including a sword and an ax – out the window, he is instructed to pull over by the cop, who tells him he can’t impersonate a police officer and adds ”Don’t make this hard, Dwight.”

At the hospital, Michael sees more than he would like – “I got to go wash my eyes” – when the baby finally is delivered.

Andy arrives with a frame of the local paper’s front page of the previous day to celebrate the baby’s birth. Unfortunately, the delay means Cecilia’s birthday will not be remembered by “Spring is Sprung,” but by the return of the “Scranton Strangler.”

Struggling with breast feeding, Pam receives hands-on help from Clark, the “Got Milk” lactation consultant, and the advice he gives seems to help Pam make an easy transition.

In a creepy “Hand that Rocks the Cradle” moment, we learn why it was so easy as Jim places the “other” baby back into its cradle and gently pushes her back to her unsuspecting mother.

Michael reflects on the “insurmountainable” odds that brought Jim and Pam together, comparing himself to Cupid and offering to fill staffers “empty holes with another person.”

His first pairing is Erin and an all-too-willing Kevin. After Erin objects, Michael guilts her in to staying with Kevin because of his “elephant heart.”

Andy - who we learn used to be Walter Jr. before he lost his first name at the age of 6 in favor of a more deserving younger brother - stalks Erin before finally asking her out.

Of course, this comes after he first threatens to fire her and then makes her cry.

Dwight and Angela, meanwhile continue their “business arrangement,” although Dwight seems distracted after seeing Isabel, Pam’s friend who seems to have an inexplicable thing for the Schrutemeister.

After a couple swing-and-misses episodes followed by the Olympic break, “The Office” finally delivered with “The Delivery.”

Maybe in nine months we’ll get another super-sized episode with the arrival of Dwight and Angela’s lovechild.

Now that, that would be Must See TV.