Have visited Santa Barbara/Montecito a few times when we've been over there visiting the delightful in-laws that I adore so muchObviously I'm not familiar with Montecito and LA but perhaps one of our American posters could comment on this post that I found under the latest Bookworm video:
"Why isn’t she using our local hospital Cottage Hospital? They have a new 2018 built pediatric medical center and top NICU and PICU.. it’s a good hospital and probably only 10-15 miles away or less from Montecito... not all the way into LA which can take a few hours to get to Cedars Sinai from Santa Barbara... especially when traffic is thick...."
So this person is saying that the hospital Smeg is supposedly booked into 'Cedars Sinai' is several hours awaythat doesn't make any sense to me at all.
It's almost 100 miles to LA, and the traffic can be absolutely horrendous. Makes the M25 during the rush hour look like Brands Hatch.
If she's really booked into Cedars-Sinai then she's almost certainly got a specific delivery date planned. Or a helicopter on standby.