Week 31: We have a date!

There are two meanings to a "date".

First, Mic is super sweet and started to initiate our "weekly date night", where we dress up a little, find a nice restaurant, and spend an evening just the two of us.  He did it so we have a little time to ourselves while his parents are still staying with us in Hong Kong, but I hope this will be good practice before little K joins the family to remind us that we still need time for each other and will continue even after he arrives.  We had two dates so far and other than the fact that they start at 630pm and end before 9pm to accommodate the sleepy and tired pregnant lady, it's been great.

Second, it's "THE" date of little K's birth -- So this week's regular check up, the doctor has scheduled us in for a C-section at 38 weeks.   He said the placenta situation has improved, and now it's just the membrane in between my big and small placentas that's covering the cervix but not the placenta itself (don't ask me how it managed to split into two!  My strange placenta has a mind of its own, clearly -- from deciding to split from the uterus temporarily at week 7, to covering the cervix at week 22, to now splitting into two!?), so the risk of bleeding is somewhat reduced.  The cord is still close to the cervix and there's still a chance of rupture, but any bit of good news is good news, and we walked out of the doctor's office feeling like the day is just a little bit brighter.

And with that, instead of aiming for the 37 week mark and the "wait-and-see" approach, the doctor is now targeting a date during week 38 instead for the procedure.  He asked us if we had a date in mind -- I honestly never thought about being able to determine the birth date of our child, and was hoping he would sort of determine his own timing of coming to this world, but now that he asked, I wonder if I should check the Chinese calendar just in case.

Also, I guess there's no way of avoiding a Scorpio boy (even though I was again secretly hoping for a different star sign), so it will be the early November that we will get to meet him for the very first time.