Effacement

The new terminology of these past nine months, is this word used in relation to anything other than the cervix?  The stopwatch is out and everything is progressing mostly on schedule.  The timeless act of birthing, the world over.  The anxiety comforted by the interconnectivity of it all, from google to calls home to Africa.  Relaxation techniques, embracing the rhythm of birth, downward movements, as the fluids leak out, running ahead of the little guy.

How valuable knowledge of this sacred, species-sustaining act would have been passed down before the wireless age... and yet in so many ways it is animalistic, innate.  I am checking out now, en route to a different acronym.  IWK.  Can't wait to see what happens next.  And to return here as a proper family.  Who could have imagined it?