T-minus 17 days and counting

Mica hit full term on Saturday. And although strictly speaking we know Vesuvius could blow at any moment, it looks like Bunderwood will be joining the world of the oxygen-breathing sometime in the late morning on Wednesday, November 28th.

Why do we dare such precision? Because it seems our little fellah is as stubborn as his paternal ancestors. He’s decided to park his adorable little ass way down in her pelvic area, and from everything we can tell, he ‘aint moving.

The clinical term for this is “Frank breech” (you learn such bizarre stuff when you start down this parenting road). Apparently it happens to about 3-4% of all pregnancies, and while vaginal birth is possible in these cases, it’s much more dangerous for the baby (I’ll spare you the details). Today the vast majority breech babies are delivered by planned Caesarean, and that’s how Bunderwood is due to arrive.

So, something as unpredictable as a birth has turned, strangely, into something with an appointment.

Mica’s being a great sport about the whole thing. I can imagine the shame that one might feel with having to ‘settle’ for a Caesarean, not to mention the fear of going under the knife, but she’s kept her chin up. For me, the hard date and added post-surgery complications have made everything much more real. It’s all happening so soon!

And now we wait… In the meantime, I’ve update the little birth widget in the sidebar of our blog to match Bundy’s new target arrival date. Unfortunately there’s no way to tell it that for us the animation is upside down…

Oh, and before you try it: we’re not naming him Frank ; )

Update: It turns out that one of Bunderwood’s legs is actually down by Mica’s cervix, making his position a partial footling or ‘incomplete’ breech. This evidently increases the risk for stillbirth during labor pretty substantially, but doesn’t change much given a Caesarean. It does explain all the weird pointy parts that move around below the surface of Mica’s tummy from time to time, though!