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[rachieface]

So, before we all start popping out little ones in the next few weeks (yay!), I thought a totally silly prediction thread would be fun to have as a reference point for the future. We can put our best guesses (whether random, based on past experience, stemming from dreams, or whatever!) on baby's stats down, and then come back here and update after we've given birth.

Birth date:

Gender (if unknown):

Weight:

Labor length:

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:

We can see who is the most intuitive of the bunch.

[rachieface]

I'll start!

Birth date: My "due date" is 2/12, but that is based on LMP and I am pretty sure that baby was conceived at a bit earlier ovulation than expected, so my best guess for 40 week is the 10th. That being said, I'd love for baby to come February 4 (it's my sister's birthday and that would make her happy) or February 7...just because that sounds nice. Wishful thinking, I know, but my fingers are crossed.

Gender (if unknown): I certainly hope this is a girl after two pretty conclusive ultrasounds. :)

Weight: 7 lb 8 oz. My son was 8 lb 8 oz at 39.6 or 40.1 (depending on due dates two days apart), but I just feel like this baby is smaller. I certainly look smaller.

Labor length: 7 hours with some prodromal stuff leading up to it.

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: I think baby girl will be a redhead, but that's pretty likely since my husband and I and my son are all redheads and it is a recessive trait.

[LadyCatherine185]

FUN!!

Birth date: Feb 6 or 7

Gender (if unknown): we know, baby boy :)

Weight: 9 lbs (both my boys were right at 9 lbs as well.. 9.3 and 9 even)

Labor length: a week or two of on and off prodominal labor, then about 2 hours of active labor

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: I have had dreams about baby T looking a lot like my first son.. DS1 had dark/spikey hair and DS2 had almost no hair (just some blonde peach fuzz!)... also feeling like this baby may be born in the water

[buko]

DH and I were just talking about this (yet again) last night.

Birth date:  Due March 1.  I keep telling everyone "early March" (only a couple people know our "actual" EDD-- I don't want people harassing me, LOL.)  My guess is something like March 7, with a range of maybe 3-4 days either way.  It's my first, so who knows?

Sex (if unknown):  No clue.  DH admitted he thinks boy, I am getting boy from a few people...  But also girl from a few people.  I am more prepared in a weird way for a boy b/c I have a preference for a girl, but I "know girls," so I have had to do more research on boys (caring for an intact boy, aiming a boy with EC, LOL, that kind of thing). 

Weight:  Given family history, I think the good money is on 7 and change.  Anywhere from 7 to 8 lbs.  I could see more, even up to high 8s.  I don't see less, even though DH's family was all 6+-- my theory is that partner's family's "baby size" genes don't come into it much.

Labor length:  I am prepared for a longish labor.  15 hours, say?  12-24 range?  If it's shorter, then that will be nice, because I already assume it will be longer.  If it's not rough, then I'd actually prefer it not to be "too" short, though!  I mean, ask me later, LOL...  But if it were less than 6 hours, IDK...  Seems like it would feel almost overwhelming in a different way.

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: 

I can really see it going so many ways.  Though I do get some peace that I think...  it might be very hard/challenging, but I think it will probably end at home, as planned, with no major drama.  I expect to end up going to a similar mental place as I did during my marathons, but am really open to anything.

As far as baby (this is what we were talking about last night), again, the "good money" is on brown eyes and (probably dark) brown hair and a medium brown complexion (well, eventually-- Buko will surely be lighter at birth).  A good chance of a lot of hair from birth.  Probably eventually short and stocky as an adult, though we always joke we'll have a skinny 6+ footer (we're 5'2" and 5'5", both very muscular and/or "curvy").  I also assume Buko will be fairly "colicky," since I was... and just so if s/he isn't, well, bonus! 

ETA: Oh!  I did have a major prophetic dream about Buko before I lost my first (last) pregnancy, which I believe in as every pre-birth aspect has already come true.  The main post-birth stuff in it was that s/he will live and be healthy, and will look like DH did as a baby.  I know you'd ask, "Well, does that mean Buko is a boy?" but I was somewhat lucid in the dream and asked G-d that, and G-d said, "Not necessarily, I'm just saying s/he will look like DH."  LOL, so there's that.  If so, I couldn't really ask for more-- DH is (IMNSHO) extremely handsome, and was possibly the world's most adorable baby.    

[Chloe'sMama]

Birth date: I am thinking Feb. 3 (I don't want that date as it is niece's bday and DD1 shares a bday with my nephew, don't want any more shared bdays, but that would be my luck....) I am hoping for Feb. 2

Gender (if unknown): US says boy, so I am inclined to say boy, but part of me is still guessing girl.

Weight: 9 lbs, 14 oz (although my MW thinks he is much smaller than my DDs.... so, if she is right, 8 lbs, 2 oz)

Labor length: 3 hours active, 4 hours before that of steady 'painless' contractions

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:

I am excited about meeting this little guy!  I feel like I am ready.  I know he should wait at least another 2 weeks, but I feeling so done at this point.

We can see who is the most intuitive of the bunch.

[sweetestday]

If this baby ever gets here, I'm thinking it will be 17lbs and 25 inches long. I will probably be pregnant till March. Or maybe it's triplets. :)

Okay, to be serious, I'll guess January 12th, 10lb 8oz. 

In December's group I had already guessed Dec 13th or 20th. Obviously that didn't happen. ;)

[Michelle Renee]

Birth date: Due Date 2/4/13 but scheduled for 1/29/13

Gender (if unknown):Boy

Weight: Im guessing 8-9 lbs

Labor length: nada -scheduled csection

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:  This kid is going to be HUGE and come out saying "where is my food woman?"  :)  He must know he has milk in in 2 deep freezers at home and another in Canada - he is an international milk baby!

I think he will skip his newborn onesies and go right to size 2t.  *giggle*

[LadyCatherine185]

Originally Posted by buko  

Weight:  Given family history, I think the good money is on 7 and change.  Anywhere from 7 to 8 lbs.  I could see more, even up to high 8s.  I don't see less, even though DH's family was all 6+-- my theory is that partner's family's "baby size" genes don't come into it much.

actually, partner's family's baby size most definitely come into it!! my sister and I were both 6+ lbs, and my brothers were both 8ish lbs.... My DH and his brothers were all 8+ lbs born at 36.5 weeks (all 3 of them!).. so they would've been huge had they been born full-term! ...my babies have both been 9+ lbs, and I am 5'1".. DH is right at 6' (and the tallest of his brothers), so our babies definitely get their size from DH's family! All of them are average sized now, and my kids are also averaged sized now (after spending the first year or so in the 95th % for size).. but for whatever reason it is in my DH's family genes to make big babies! My MW says it is their Polish background!

[rachieface]

Originally Posted by sweetestday 

If this baby ever gets here, I'm thinking it will be 17lbs and 25 inches long. I will probably be pregnant till March. Or maybe it's triplets. :)

Okay, to be serious, I'll guess January 12th, 10lb 8oz. 

In December's group I had already guessed Dec 13th or 20th. Obviously that didn't happen. ;)

LOL! I'm glad you can still have a sense of humor about all of this. But seriously, hugs. I hope baby makes it's way out SOON, and I'm sure it will be well before March (or February, for that matter).

[Teles]

Birth date: EDD is February 7 and at first I was thinking Feb 12 but now I'm leaning more toward January 29-Feb 3.

Gender (if unknown): I'm told it's a girl and have been working under that assumption (i.e., buying a lot of dresses) but lately I've been getting these flashes of "oh god, what if it's a boy"

Weight:8lbs

Labor length: 12 hours

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: I have been getting the sense that she will be born at around 39 to 40 weeks lately, but everyone around me has been really laying it on thick that she's going to come early so I'm a little worried that it's impacting my sense of her. I'm actually feeling really good about birth too, which surprises me a little since I thought by this point I would have started feeling some kind of panic or anxiety.

[odinsmama]

Originally Posted by rachieface 


Birth date:
Gender (if unknown):
Weight:
Labor length:
Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:

EDD is 2/5 and I'm predicting end of January. As long as I make it to 37 weeks (one week from today!) I'll be happy.

I feel like it's another boy and I've had 2 boy dreams. The only dream I had where baby was a girl was also one in which baby was born with no skin and was speaking to us. Yeah, gonna ignore that one!

Hoping for at least 6 lb. ds1 was 7 3 and ds2 was 6 10. I'm so much smaller this time and the belly is, too. Just don't want baby to be too tiny!

Labor length, maybe about 7, depending on how many days ahead of time things start.

Ds1 I had no real pre labor stuff. Water broke and waited about 7 hours for labor to start. He was born about 12 hours after that.
Ds2 I had 2 or 3 days of contractions that kept stopping. Water broke at some point in there and labor really started about 20 hours after that. Baby born 5 hours later. Much more intense than the first, but felt much better afterward than I did after the first.

No other real feelings about how things will go or what baby will look/be like. Part of the time I feel ready and totally excited and other times I realize I would really rather go to the full 40 weeks so I can end up with the biggest baby possible.
Oh, both boys were born right at 40 or a day early, so the only reason I'm thinking maybe a little early with this one is because of me being underweight this time.
Also the huge amount of BH last night has me just a teensy bit feeling like I need to sloooow down this week and make sure we get to at least 37 weeks.

[kellybeth]

Originally Posted by sweetestday 

If this baby ever gets here, I'm thinking it will be 17lbs and 25 inches long. I will probably be pregnant till March. Or maybe it's triplets. :)

[kellybeth]

Originally Posted by Teles 

Gender (if unknown): I'm told it's a girl and have been working under that assumption (i.e., buying a lot of dresses) but lately I've been getting these flashes of "oh god, what if it's a boy"

i've been having the same little flashes of what if it's a boy after we painted the room purple and have all of these girl clothes. 

pregnancy is strange and unpredictable, so i don't know how to answer these questions. i really have no idea what to expect. 

birth date: we don't have a due date, and i really don't know when to expect her. i'm guessing february 10th. 

gender (if unknown): we're told, and have seen, that baby's a girl. but like teles, i've been having tiny little fears that she is a boy. 
weight: 8 pounds. i don't even know how much i weighed, or anything about my family history, neither does my husband. we've been told that she's bigger than normal, but i don't even know what "normal" is for birth weight so that comment is meaningless to me. all i know is that she's strong. 
labor length: i have no idea. 

other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: it's not that i don't think about these things, i just don't know anything. 

[loveandgarbage]

birth date: EDD is 2/5, I feel like this baby will end up being late Jan, but the date 2/3 is also sticking out to me

gender: we know it's a boy

weight: 8-9 lbs

labor length: 4 hours

other: darker hair than my other two, looks a lot like DS2

[typebug]

Birth date: Feb 15th (EDD Feb 25)
Gender (if unknown): Girl... Though we really flip flop on our guesses
Weight: 7.5 lbs
Labor length: 12 hours or more
Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: i have a feeling it will be middle of the night and we'll have a lot of pre-labour since my body seems to love to have contractions.

[etsdtm99]

Birth date: I'm going to say 2/15  (EDD is 2/9 by u/s -  2/11 or 12 by my best guess, my others came at 39, 41, and 40+2)

Gender (if unknown): boy (according to u/s)

Weight: 7lbs 8oz (others were DD 7lb2oz, DS 8lbs 2oz, and DD2 7lbs 6oz - i guessed DD1 and DS's weights right on.. don't remember what i guessed for DD2 but it was close)

Labor length: 7 hours - likely with my water breaking at the start .. and about 5 hours of that being 'hard labor' 1.5-2 hours pushing. (basing this on my other labors, obviously NOT what i would prefer or what i am visualizing ;) my other labors were 19, 12, and 10 hours)

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: I feel like this birth will be similar to my last, but i hope it will be more similar to my son's labor (just without the hospital stuff, interventions, etc)  which was easier because he was in a better position .. I am planning on having a water birth this time .. and part of me feels like maybe this birth will be radically different, or maybe this time i'll get my peaceful homebirth  .. maybe this time i won't have to push for 2 hours.. maybe THIS time i won't tear (or not as bad anyway) .. maybe my labor will be shorter because i've been so active,  maybe i'll have a smaller baby because i've been really watching my diet (not that my others were big, but they were really hard to push out).. there is a fine line between hoping/visualizing a better experience and preparing myself for it not being any 'better' ..  
 

[Sunshine_Amy]

Originally Posted by rachieface 

So, before we all start popping out little ones in the next few weeks (yay!), I thought a totally silly prediction thread would be fun to have as a reference point for the future. We can put our best guesses (whether random, based on past experience, stemming from dreams, or whatever!) on baby's stats down, and then come back here and update after we've given birth.

Birth date:

Gender (if unknown):

Weight:

Labor length:

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:

We can see who is the most intuitive of the bunch.

Fun!  

Birth date: Hmmm. I guess I'll say Feb. 17th, just because that is/was my "first crush's" birthday, and it's the day before my due date.  I wouldn't even be thinking of First-crush guy, except that my husband's first choice name for our boy was precisely my first-crush's name, and at least two other people have suggested the name. (Which I said "no way" to, because all of my high school friends would think I named the baby after him.) This crush-guy is long, long forgotten for me, but somehow the universe seems to be bringing him into the story, in a private-joke, lighthearted way! I thought of him as a Super Good person (that was my 13-year-old-self fantasy about him), so I'll go along.

Weight: Hmm. 8 lbs 17oz.

Labor length: 6 hours (from when I ask the midwife to come)

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth: I have very warm and special feelings about this boy already. A gentle but strong boy, who will have an immediate impact on our world through the people he touches on a deep heart level.    But as far as predictions that can be validated for our purposes, none that I can think of!

[MaybeJ]

Birth date: Feb. 4, due Feb 11.  (DD was born 2 weeks before EDD)

Gender: Guessing girl!  If it's a boy, he might not be named for a week...

Weight: 8lb6oz

Labour length: 1-2 days of "practice labour" with an active labour of 2 hours (active labour was 4 hours for #1 with only regular BH leading up to it)

[Jenny01]

Originally Posted by kellybeth gender (if unknown): we're told, and have seen, that baby's a girl. but like teles, i've been having tiny little fears that she is a boy. 
 

We were just discussing this last night... Dh told me out of the blue that he had a 'strange feeling' it might be a boy after all.  I don't know, but it would be really strange to expect a girl and get such a surprise!! 

Birth date:  Due Feb 16 - I am going with the 17th, simply because I was an 'on time' baby and my cycles and ov. were pretty normal and predictable.

Gender (if unknown): We were told it "appears to be" a Girl (with a disclaimer that they are not 100% accurate  lol)

Weight: 7lbs 7oz (midwife told me last week that baby still feels small, and I was measuring 32cm at 35 weeks - which surprised me since I feel huge)

Labor length: No idea!

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:  I'm expecting a girl who is a lot like me, laid back and easy going, and loves to sleep!  (I can dream, right? )  But really, she seems to sleep all night with me right now, with only a few kicks here and there when I get up to pee and then we go right back to sleep.  I'm predicting blonde with very little hair and light colored eyes. (mine are blue, hubbys are a really light brown).

As for the birth I have no idea what to expect, so I'm assuming I will have a long labor since it's my first.  I envision birthing at home in the birth tub with no major issues.

[katiesophie]

Birth date:  EDD 2/25 by early u/s but originally was 2/18, I'm thinking it will be earlier rather than later - 2/17

Gender (if unknown):   I've been thinking girl, but last week I had a dream about the baby and it was clearly a boy peeing on me ;)  (can't wait to find out)

 

Weight: my guess is not small, four out of five of my mom's babies were 8+lbs.  I've gained 40lbs mostly in my boobs and stomach.  And my brother who was 10lbs 6 oz and 24in long has convinced me that I'm he has a kindred spirit in his future niece or nephew!

 

Labor length:  I am visualizing laboring at home for as long as I can, then a short, sweet 3 hours active labor at the birth center.  But I made my mom work for 20 hours so...  

 

Other random thoughts/feelings/premonitions about your baby or birth:

Overall I am feeling good about the birth and excited for the experience.  I feel like it will be fairly routine with no major complications.  I keep thinking the baby will be born at night (I see a full moon which is on the 25th, my EDD).  

We had to have a level two u/s so we saw my lips and DH's grandmother's cute button nose!  I don't think the baby will have any hair, I was practically bald until age two and DH has pretty thin, light hair.  I think the baby will be a thumbsucker :)