Fri 16 May 2008
okay, shoe, go ahead and drop
Posted by bon under mama-baby stuff, milestone stuff, pregnancy stuff
[47] Comments
…Bon enters stage left, peers around with puzzlement, as if expecting something to fall from the sky…
then lies down.
she smiles tentatively, then looks up again sharply, suspiciously, and scans overhead. she bundles herself into a small ball, looking very content…but most uncertain about this odd state of affairs.
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after my u/s appointment, at which all Down’s Syndrome markers were totally written off, baby was active and measured a healthy happy normal percentile, no uterine septum was detectable, and fluid was plentiful, my doctor came out and announced to the receptionist – and the entire waiting room – “Bonnie has a beautiful big long cervix!”
it’s not a compliment i’m accustomed to receiving in public, i will admit, but i tried to smile and preen graciously, the very picture of a Miss Cervix Universe contestant. i begin to believe we may make it after all.
and baby looks mysteriously and amazingly like the little girl i was sure i’d never have. consider me knocked over with a feather. :)




May 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Wow that is fantastic news. I am so happy for you Bon. Congrats on the long cervix and healthy baby girl. Keep up the good work.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Oh Bon, I am so incredibly happy for you!
You know what? Sometimes that other shoe just stays put.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Congratulations Bon! Little girls are great! Little boy are great too! By golly, all baby are great! I am so happy for you!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaahooooooooooooooo FOR Miss Cervix Universe! And perhaps a wee girl…oh bless your heart, love. Now you go and have a rompin’ weekend with your girls….congrats to you and Dave…
May 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
!!!!!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Oh, that’s just wonderful news, long-cervixed lady!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Super! A daughter, a sister. Oh fun!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
YAHOO! And a girl! I can give you girl advice and you can give me boy advice. WOOT!
*shields eyes from tremendously long cervix*
May 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
How tremendous, all of it.
I can’t help wonder what Miss Cervix’s crown would look like, though. ;)
May 16th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
a girl? congratulations, bon.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
OK I just burst into tears for you.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
that’s so wonderful : ) congratulations!! have a fabulous long weekend!
May 16th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
oh, WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
keep those feet up in the air and the shoe will stay put- it *is* hard to hear good news when you are expecting the worst, isn’t it?
keep it up, mama, and have the very best of weekends with all your girls, including the little one…
May 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Congratulations on your Miss Cervix award! That is grand news. And how exciting about the mysterious girl-like appearance of the little one.
I’m sorry I won’t be among those who get to meet you this weekend. I’ve had too much other travelling. Have much fun.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
what great news!
May 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Awww. Sniff. So pleased, Ms. Cervix.
(Let me pick up that shoe lying there and quickly burn it after running it over with my car.)
May 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
BON!
hell YES!
May 16th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Now to sport the cervix tiara!
May 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
a girl. happy. long cervix. happy.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Good News all around then. Better a long cervix than a sloppy vagina!
WHAT?!
We were all thinking it.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Is is weird to get excited (like I am) that there’s now a female equivalent (of sorts) to the….male equation of reproductive organ ‘sizing’?!
What lovely news for you. hooray!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
congratulations, bon!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
COngrats! On the long cervix, of course.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
What good news. So happy for you.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
glad you didn’t just save it for that waiting room.
*have a great weekend I tried to send hugs via Mad. this seems like THE blogger event I am missing this year.
I’ll book the cottage; Grand Manan ’09 I’m there sister!***
May 16th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Wow, how does one acquire such a great cervix? Any exercises you could recommend for “Miss Cervix 2009″ hopefuls? ;)
I’m hoping for a girl.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Yes! Awesome! I am glad it is beautiful as well as long!
May 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
AWSOME AWSOME news Bon and Dave. Still keeping everything crossed for you down here.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Big big smiles over here. Such great news…all of it!
May 16th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
:)
May 16th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Oh, Bon!
I have waves and waves of goose-bumps!
So, so happy for you.
xoxo
May 16th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Three cheers!
May 16th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
That is just wonderful! So glad to hear all is good and that you are expecting a girl!!
May 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Sweetie!! So very, very happy for you.
xoxo CGF
May 17th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Yay! Take a bow, cervix. And, a daughter – awesome!
May 17th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
congrats, on the wee little girl. (and the beautiful cervix. I myself apparently have a nice pelvis roomy enough for twins.)
May 18th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Freaking thrilled for you.
Also? I didn’t want to say anything, but I have kinda thought, for a while there, that it was a little girl in there.
And yay for that cervix. It must love the new couch. :)
May 18th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Hey YOU, you lady with the long cervix, a big old congratulations to you!
May 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I knew it! SUPER news Bon! Im thrilled that the “happy news” spotlight is currently shining over at your corner of the blogosphere. I bet, and hope, this will help make all the waiting that little more easier. I guess this means that “Heloise” is back on the list of baby names again huh? Bummer (NOT!)…hehehe
Look after you and that obedient cervix.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
WAHOO!
Here’s to little girls and beautiful, big long cervix’s!
May 18th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
What a wonderful post to read today. I am grinning ear to ear. A healthy cervix. A girl! I’m getting teary now.
May 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Oh, Bon, I am so so so pleased to read this news from you. A nice long cervix is fantastic. As is the possibility of a girl. Marvellous. I can’t wait to meet her in fourteen + weeks :-)
May 19th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Oh Bon! Yes. This is great news.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
excellent. now go and enjoy that long cervix. man, doctors are weird.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
yay! I’m so happy for you, Bon.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
You wear that crown and strut with those flowers, girl! Congrats.
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 am
Oh splendid, splendid. So happy for you.