Before the Internet the local reference librarian is where I would often turn for help but somethings are too awkward to ask.

Could you help me locate some information on the External Os?

External?

Os.

Ox?

Os, Oscar-Sam, Os.

Hmmm. Sam, Oscar. Have you tried Biographies?

Possibly, I should have taken more science classes in my youth rather than loading up on Art and Music while backfilling my schedule with Comparative Literature. However, I am getting a crash course in female reproductive anatomy that goes beyond the highlights offered in the pages of Stuff and Maxim. In this case I learned that they cervix is not really an opening but rather a tube with two separate openings referred to as the Internal and External Os. News to me.

Moving right along to the section filed under TMI; Management is progressing along with contractions becoming more regular and frequent The external is at 2 cm but the doctor could not gauge the internal because, as another doctor earlier in the pregnancy so eloquently put it, “Your cervix is like the Holland Tunnel. No matter how much you might wish otherwise it is still a long way to the other end.” Now that I know how the cervix is constructed that comment makes much more sense.

Anyways, long story short: we continue to wait.