# Our first baby girl due date is this weekend **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334 "2010-03-13T07:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/21 "2010-03-15T02:42:15Z")
Congratulations and best wishes. Platitudes, I know, but I can’t whoop over the internet, so it’ll have to do. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/22 "2010-03-15T03:53:08Z")
We have brownies but no baby yet. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/23 "2010-03-15T06:46:19Z")
Maybe we’ll have an Aries. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/24 "2010-03-15T08:00:12Z")
Name her Brunhilde! I keep suggesting this, but so far, nobody is interested. Come on - think about it - when she is 24 years old and going on job interviews, who wouldn’t want to meet a woman named “Brunhilde”?! Plus, who will EVER forget her name? At any rate - congrats, soon… ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/25 "2010-03-20T15:32:01Z")
… still waiting … ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/26 "2010-03-20T16:16:57Z")
Wow…I was waiting for an update, and when I saw the thread bump, I figured we had splashdown. Guess not. Hope Mrs. Bearflag is able to get comfortable! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/27 "2010-03-20T17:45:33Z")
Eeek. No baby here, either. Anyone else? **Neeps**? ---
**Author:** ![Neeps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@Neeps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neeps)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/28 "2010-03-20T19:48:37Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > Eeek. > > No baby here, either. Anyone else? **Neeps**? Nope! Still sitting pretty here at 39+3. Maybe next week… ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/29 "2010-03-20T20:02:28Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > We’re at 39 weeks (give or take). Full effacement. Mrs. Flag is ready to be done with pregnancy forever. > > The bags are packed. The nursery is stocked. The house is mostly clean. There’s gas in the tank. Still have to install the car seat though. See, there’s your trouble. You’re all prepared. Go use up some of that gas and buy tickets to a movie or something. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/30 "2010-03-22T12:41:55Z")
Yeah, and have a snowstorm and your OB go on holiday. Any updates? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/31 "2010-03-22T13:40:09Z")
No grandbaby here either. However, the doctor is planning to induce her on Thursday if nothing else. So maybe we will have something to post about then. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/32 "2010-03-22T16:58:11Z")
> [@thirdwarning](#): > > See, there’s your trouble. You’re all prepared. Go use up some of that gas and buy tickets to a movie or something. Unpack, make the house a mess, and say “I have plenty of time, babies are always late…” Mine came at 38 weeks 3 days. With no warning. I wasn’t packed. My labor coach was six states away. And my doctor had dropped hints that an early delivery via induction was likely (I had borderline toxemia) the following week - so I was certain I’d have a leisurely pack and trip to the hospital… ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/33 "2010-03-23T02:33:38Z")
Scheduled an induction for Wednesday morning in case her stubbornness continues. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/34 "2010-03-23T02:56:19Z")
Wish you the best, hope it all goes well. The birthing is just the beginning of a whole new life for all of you. I remember being a week overdue, and finally something began to happen, and we looked around our spotlessly clean house (I had to keep busy for that whole week) thinking, things will never be the same. They weren’t! ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/35 "2010-03-24T15:54:59Z")
At the hospital now for the scheduled delivery. Just waiting at this point. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/36 "2010-03-24T16:06:04Z")
Good luck Bearflag & Missus Bearflag ! ---
**Author:** ![Neeps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@Neeps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neeps)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/37 "2010-03-24T16:47:47Z")
Good luck! Today’s my due date, so it would be nice if one doper baby was born today! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/38 "2010-03-24T17:04:09Z")
I just saw this thread. Congrats Bearflag. Babies are awesome. Mine is almost 5 months old and is still the greatest thing in the history of things. If you haven’t yet, take this time to practice taking the car seat back out of the car. Then put it back in and take it out again. Do this a few times now while things are calm. I didn’t do that and when we were ready to be discharged from the hospital I spent 20 minutes wrestling with the damn thing so I could get it back out of the car and up to the baby (I was exhausted and nervous and couldn’t remember which of the many levers and/or latches I needed to move to get the thing out of its base.) Again, congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/39 "2010-03-24T17:07:20Z")
Mrs. Bearflag is now napping through her pitocin IV and I’m getting some work done. It’s nice with no phone ringing in my ear. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334/40 "2010-03-24T17:36:36Z")
Is she making any progress? I remember induction taking all friggin’ day long. 15 hours IIRC. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-first-baby-girl-due-date-is-this-weekend/532334.md?page=3)