Prediction

Julie thinks she'll go into labor in the middle of the night. Further, she thinks she'll be two days late (November 14th) and deliver by C-section.

The last prediction startles me a bit. I don't have any romantic notions of any one kind of birth, but for some reason it seems odd to predict a C-section. On the other hand, it's not wise to bet against a person who has spent the past nine months monitoring her own body. If anyone is qualified to forecast the details of the birth, it's the pregnant lady.

They say the way your mother delivered can be a decent predictor of how you will. Trouble is, Julie is an identical twin who was born in the late 70s. Did any woman back then deliver twins via hooha?

I do wonder whether Julie's C-section prediction might have arisen out of, how shall we say this, certain doubts. Remember that toy you had where you put the square block in the square-shaped hole, the triangle block in the triangle-shaped hole, and so on? Did you ever try to stuff your favorite doll through the circle-shaped hole? Didn't work too well, did it?

So we'll see. One odd tidbit is that Julie's paid leave increases by two weeks if she has a C-section. I'm guessing it would not be a good idea for me to stand in the delivery room and offer opinions based on finances. "Well you know, honey, you might be just one surgery away from what'll amount to a lot of video games." That's a good way to get a broken nose.