diff --git a/waddrmgr/sync.go b/waddrmgr/sync.go
index 2c15762..ed4ebe8 100644
--- a/waddrmgr/sync.go
+++ b/waddrmgr/sync.go
@@ -112,15 +112,26 @@ func (m *Manager) SetBirthday(ns walletdb.ReadWriteBucket,
 }
 
 // BirthdayBlock returns the birthday block, or earliest block a key could have
-// been used, for the manager.
-func (m *Manager) BirthdayBlock(ns walletdb.ReadBucket) (BlockStamp, error) {
-	return fetchBirthdayBlock(ns)
+// been used, for the manager. A boolean is also returned to indicate whether
+// the birthday block has been verified as correct.
+func (m *Manager) BirthdayBlock(ns walletdb.ReadBucket) (BlockStamp, bool, error) {
+	birthdayBlock, err := fetchBirthdayBlock(ns)
+	if err != nil {
+		return BlockStamp{}, false, err
+	}
+
+	return birthdayBlock, fetchBirthdayBlockVerification(ns), nil
 }
 
 // SetBirthdayBlock sets the birthday block, or earliest time a key could have
-// been used, for the manager.
+// been used, for the manager. The verified boolean can be used to specify
+// whether this birthday block should be sanity checked to determine if there
+// exists a better candidate to prevent less block fetching.
 func (m *Manager) SetBirthdayBlock(ns walletdb.ReadWriteBucket,
-	block BlockStamp) error {
+	block BlockStamp, verified bool) error {
 
-	return putBirthdayBlock(ns, block)
+	if err := putBirthdayBlock(ns, block); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return putBirthdayBlockVerification(ns, verified)
 }