Cause for concern?

Nancy just came from one of her many visits to the doctor. Apparently the baby's head is not down, which is not a good thing. This is not a terribly uncommon thing to happen, but it means that she will need to for an ultrasound to confirm that the baby is inverted. If it is confirmed that the baby is head-up, she will need to go in next week and they will try to flip the baby manually, which involves a lot of pushing around of Nancy's abdomen -- which I have heard can be an unpleasant experience.

If this does not resolve the baby's breech-ness, they will probably look at doing a cesarean section, which is something that Nancy does not want to have happen.

The extra-fun part of this is that Nancy has developed pretty bad back pain in the last week. She was hobbling around all weekend, and has been afraid that she would not be able to work this week.

I tend not to be a worrier. But I certainly don't like this last-minute baby-flipping business either.

This is the stuff of the fall. Not the season of the year, but the "The Fall" as in consequences of sin in the world.

I know there are descriptions of Heaven in the Bible, but in the end we don't know much about what it will really be like. I don't know if there will be babies delivered once we get to eternity, I suspect not – so this is something we can't look forward to again. We think this is our last child, so that means that once this is done that we will never again get to go through this process.

It's a paradox that we get to experience the joy of watching a new life develop in such a fallen, dangerous world.