Jul

I AM 50% EFFACED!!! I am *SO* excited!!! For those of you who have never been pregnant, “effaced” involves the thickness of your cervix – it needs to thin out before you can really start dilating (which, in turn, you have to do before the baby can come out”. Anyway, with Sami, I never effaced at all (which explains why the labor didn’t progress and I ended up with a c-section). So, this is *way* more progress than I expected, partcularly since we’re still over three weeks from the due date. I’m taking this as a positive sign – maybe (unlike Sami, who was quite comfy with life on the inside), this baby actually wants to be born! %-)

The doctor was very funny – he hadn’t seen me before (I’m “rotating”, meeting my doctor’s partners in case one of them has to deliver the baby), so I guess he thought I might be disappointed that I wasn’t dilating yet. He actually didn’t use the word “effaced”, he just said “Well, you haven’t started dilating yet, but half the length is gone”. I think he was very surprised that this made me so happy.

  

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