I was just randomly flipping through the TV channels when I caught a few minutes of CNN’s video biography of Sarah Palin. I think they said that SP’s first child was born “almost 8 months after” she married her husband. Of course, that made me think, was she preggers before they got hitched? Or, was the kid premature? Or, did I hear it wrong? (I’ll admit I was not paying very close attention as I was watching.)
Please, let’s keep this civil people. Looking for just the facts, not opinions or debates. Thanks all, in advance.
I think I remember Palin saying at her first campaign appearance with McCain that it was her 20th anniversary, so that would put her wedding on August 29, 1988.
Human gestation is considered to be 40 weeks, not the convenient 9 months that everyone uses. If my calculations are correct and she got pregnant on their wedding night, her son was over 6 weeks premature.
Okay, so I think we’ve pretty much settled that CNN got it right and I heard the report correctly. The kid was born over a month shy of 9 months after Sarah’s wedding.
Now the question becomes, has she, Todd – or anyone – explained this situation? Has she/he/anyone declared that she was pregnant when she and her hubby got hitched? Has she/he/anyone said that Track was premature? Has anyone asked about this or brought this up before, or am I the first on the planet?
Well, when the mommy and daddy love each other very much…
What do you mean explain the facts? They were knockin’ boots. So what? Is this just another complaint that she says one thing and does another? I suppose so. One more piece of evidence that she is a hypocrite, but we already knew that. She’s got plenty of gall telling everybody else how to live, but that would be true even if she weren’t a hypocrite.
Would there be any way of finding out Track’s birthweight? If he was six weeks premature, he ought to have been fairly small, although, of course, that’s not conclusive evidence one way or the other.
Not really. Due date is calculated as 40 weeks after the first day of the last period. In reality, pregnancy averages about 38 weeks from actual conception; the 40 week figure is used because the exact date of conception isn’t always known. All of these are averages; anything from 37 to 42 weeks from the beginning of the last period is considered normal. Using the 38 week from time of conception figure: if she got pregnant on her wedding night, the baby was about 4 and a half weeks early.
I do know that the wedding was so impromptu that they had no witnesses as is required in Alaska, so they went across the street and got a couple out of a nursing home to act as witnesses.
Who cares? I don’t see why having sex before marriage would make her a hypocrite; she hasn’t suggested any legislation to prohibit fornication. But my commenting any further would probably take us into GD territory.
Heh. One of Heinlein’s characters said (paraphrasing from memory) “what takes a cow or a countess nine months can be accomplished in much less by an eager young bride”.
