Up a Week

Two centimeters dilated, 80% effaced: that's what the doctor told us at today's exam. Given this progress, we've decided that it will be less risky to move this c-section up a week, to April 22 -- less than a week away now.

Since Baby G. is breech, there's an increased risk of prolapsed umbilical cord, so we want to try to make sure we do this surgery well before I'd go into labor. Prolapsed umbilical cord wouldn't necessarily happen even if I were to go into labor, but if it did happen, it would be very dangerous for Baby G. My mom had a scheduled c-section because I was breech, and she went into labor beforehand but I turned out fine, but we don't want to take any chances.

Various cool people he'll share a birthday with include Sheryl Lee (Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks), Jack Nicholson, Charles Mingus, and Vladimir Nabokov.