New Wives Tales

I have this strange superstitious belief that when I cut my fingernails that that makes it more likely for a mom to go into labour. As if my being ready will make it so. So entrenched is this superstition that I will not trim my nails if I'm wanting to not get called out! Crazy, yes. I don't tell this to too many people I know - it sounds too much like the midwives of yore that put a knife under the bed to 'cut the pain'. Despite all my intellectual eye-rolling at my neurosis, the superstition remains and every time I get out the nail clippers, I wonder who will go into labour.

Right now I'm waiting on a bunch of births. Neighbour midwife went off call for her June weekend off. She'll be off until Sunday evening. She has three multips due that I am covering for, and I have two primips past due as well as two multips due in a bit over a week. I'm anxious to have one of them deliver!

So I trimmed my nails.