May 29, 2009 at 15:42
Week #10: Due date
Dear Baby Santa,
I’ve realized that I haven’t told you about the due date. When I first found out that I was pregnant I googled “due date calculators” to find out when you were due. Since I don’t know the conception date I calculated it from the first day of my last period. And lo and behold: It’s Dec 22nd! I knew it would be around that time, so I had actually had a talk with your father about not “doing it” that month to keep a poor child from being born that close to Christmas. Well, we all know that that didn’t happen, but what’s worse is this: The international method of calculating a due date (according to the World Health Organization) is 40 weeks. And that’s what the English/American due date calculators told me. But, and this is a fuuun fact, in Norway we use 40 weeks and 2 days. Which means that your due date, my large grape, it Dec 24th. (And for those of you who don’t know: In Norway we celebrate Christmas (gifts, dinner and all) on Christmas Eve.)
Doctors and nurses and everybody else find it very funny making comments about that fact.
I see now that I deserve all the nausea in the world for doing this to you, Baby Doe, but you can be happy only about 5% give birth on their due dates. I swear I read it somewhere.
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