We are at the hospital. 90 minutes until the scheduled time. We are Eleven hours and forty minutes or so to go. Gulp. :-) We are scheduled. The C-Section is blocked off to start at 16:00 UTC this Saturday… September 12th. (That would be 9 AM Pacific, 10 AM Mountain, 11 AM Central, Noon Eastern, etc, etc, etc…) That is just a few minutes more than 40 hours from now. Gulp. So, yesterday the Doctor let us know that we really should go ahead with a C-Section this weekend. I first emailed immediate family about it directly. Slightly later I went to make a blog post about it. A comedy of errors on my part ensued.
Now, it should be pretty obvious that all of the above (well, OK, most of the above, I do sometimes freak out about such things) was not actually about the glitch in the blog post at all, but was really me acting out: ZOMG! BABY!!! BABY!!! THIS WEEKEND??? WTF??? THIS WEEKEND?? JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS??? THIS WEEKEND??? BABY BABY BABY!!! ZOMG!! WEEKEND!!! THAT IS SOON!!! THERE WILL REALLY BE A BABY!!! ZOMG! JUST DAYS? OMG OMG OMG! ARGGHH!!! BABY BABY BABY!!! And yeah, that was what was really going on. The rest was just some random event that served as a trigger to let me freak out a bit about something completely unrelated. Heh. Oops. Having said that, for future reference, if I ever for whatever reason post something that is screwed up in some way I wish to correct, I’m just going to edit the blog post, make a note at the bottom of the post that it was edited, and not worry about the fact that the people who got the email notifications saw an earlier version of the post without benefits of that edit in those emails. They can always click through and see the edited version if they like. Now that I’ve stated that policy publicly here, I won’t worry about it any more. And this post about yesterday’s misadventures can also serve as my final exorcism of the part of my brain still screaming about how the post yesterday was screwed up and it ruined everything. Begone foul demon! And now we can get on with things that actually matter. :-) [Edited 18:05 UTC to fix punctuation issue.] Doctor says best not to wait until the 21st. C-Section definately So, we had another doctor visit yesterday. We now have a schedule based on where things are at the moment. As I posted Thursday, Alex is in the 93rd percentile by weight at the moment. He is also up to the 99th+ percentile for things like the size of his head. He is already 8 pounds 3 ounces (plus or minus 19 ounces of uncertainty in the measurements) and typically at this stage they grow at least half a pound a week. That means that if he comes NOW a natural delivery is probably indicated, but the longer we go, the more prudent a C-Section would be. The “official” due date based on the tests the doctor likes to trust the most say September 21st. Over the course of the last few months though, we’ve seen tests and calculations giving dates from September 5th (TODAY!) to September 22nd, and Brandy has always been convinced that the real date should be closer to the beginning of that range. So it is certainly a possibility that rather than Alex actually being very big, he is just actually a couple of weeks further along than the due date of the 21st would indicate. So, here is what things look like at this point given everything we know, and the doctor’s current thoughts…
And that is where we are… Oh yeah… we’re set with all the immediate necessities, but if anybody is still wanting to help with anything else: Alex’s Registry 
The above as of earlier today when we had what will probably be our 
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