professionalism
when we arrived at the frauenspital around 6 pm on filipa's birthday-to-be, a midwife performed some kind of entrance check-up. among other things, she put both her hands on my belly and said: "3 kilo 200 gramm". we were extremely impressed and somehow angry with my gynecologist, who had never dared to say anything about baby weight over the whole 39 weeks of pregnancy.
filipa weighed 2650g.
3200g is the median weight for baby girls and the midwife's chances for being so wrong were only 10%. a fairly acceptable risk, considering how stunned we were by her (temporary) professionalism.
