Friday, May 09, 2014

My totally reasonable way to pick a labor day (7qt)

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I am having the best time reading through everyone's birthday and weight guesses for the belleh babe.  If you want to make your OWN guess without my ridiculous neuroses tainting your judgement read no further!

Let us entitle this Being Weird About Numbers and Junk.

And via the power of the internet, I already know there are others out there like me.  Others who can't leave the volume on the t.v. at an odd number, for example.  Or who wear their watch on their right wrist because they wear their wedding band on their left hand.  STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT. I'M TOTALLY FINE.

Anyway, on to my birthday picking method.  Consider the following:

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I have only ever gone into labor on Friday.  My first baby was induced on a Thursday, so her arrival doesn't figure into the equation, obvi.  And now, based on subsequent deliveries, she totally would have come on her own the following day.  Clearly.

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All our at-home kids have birthdays in the 20s with NO REPEATS : 29th, 28th, 27th, 24th, and 22nd so far.

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The birthday, ideally, can be turned into a mathematical equation, e.g. 6/28 ---> 6+2=8 

This is from a few months ago.  Can you believe I thought I was "huge" already? HAHAHAHA!
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SO!  According to the very important information outlined above, I must go into labor on a Friday and this child can only be born on the 26th, the 25th, the 23rd, the 21st or the 20th.  AND if we consult our handy dandy calendars, we will see that cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeearly there is but one birthday option for this young man, and that is May 23rd.  Which is a Friday.  And a day we've not used.  And is in the 20s. And makes an excellent mathematical equation (5-2=3, naturally)

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Et voila!  Clearly there is no other option.  Mea culpa to all of you who've picked other days because I just don't see any other way that this could work out.

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God, are you taking notes?

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  1. I'm totally OCD with the birth dates too - glad I'm not the only one! My first was a 5/5/10 and the second a 2/10/12 - which I LOVE those dates. LOVE THEM. Then #3 came on 11/3/13 - which is not horrible but I would have preferred a 11/10/13 to keep with the 10 theme or 11/2/13 but I did not want to get induced on Saturday so 11/3/13 it is! Also a good one would have been 10/24/13 to get 0-4 in the date but whatever!

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    1. I could not love this comment more!

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    2. After rereading the first should be 5/10/10 but still equally cool (numerically sound) birthday. I've actually had conversations with my OB about 'good days' to have a baby so he is aware of my OCD-ness that plus the fact he somehow cannot pawn any BC off on me probably tips me over his 'chart-o-crazies'

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  2. He's gonna be born the day before, just because you have called him Pointy Bird for the past 7 months. :)

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    1. My original prediction was the 22nd and I'm sticking to it! Repeats are ok. We have there kids born on the 6th in this house - each 3 months apart (Feb, May, and August), a 14th, a 15th, a 24th, and a 1st. 22 is however my favorite number (and my anniversary). So I would love nothing more than PB to be born on the 22. You could even name him Blaise please cause it's the one boys name I want each time but my hubby always vetoes it. Coincidentally, he always wants Nicholas but I veto it. Done rambling now.

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  3. I remember telling my gf that her 3rd child would be born on a Sunday, bec I had kids born on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday and she already had a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Also, between the 2 of us, we have a dates of 2,3,4,5, (2) 17'S and both DH's are the 21st. Also, both our initials are DJ.

    Sometimes you just know.

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  4. My husband's birthday is Feb. 11 and mine is Aug. 11. Our son's birth mother went into labor on January 11 (and he was born that day, too). We all considered it a sign from God :)

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  5. Our children are both adopted, and one has an 11/10 birthday and the other has a 12/11 birthday. We have joked that we would only adopt children with descending birth dates, 10/9, 5/4, etc. I think we were joking. Or one of us was. Maybe.

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  6. Did you used to count the number of times you chewed (and it had to be even) or chew two M&M's one on each side of your mouth to make it even? (Pleasesayyespleasesayyespleasesayyes…)

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    1. I don't know if Dweej did, but I SURE as heck did all that! Plus, I had to have the same number of stuffed animals on either side of me each night.

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  7. Can you only eat tic tacs or red hots or skittles in even numbers? That's my problem. I also can't take the top newspaper off the rack.

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  8. My birthday is 2^2 5^2 (4/25) - how's that for a good date, mathwise? My mom just about peed her pants with excitement when I turned 5^2 on my birthday. And then when I turned 3^3 two years later. Math nerds, unite! My husband and I care more about awesome feast days - we had our first two on the feast days of doctors of the church, and then the twins had to ruin everything... St. Josaphat? Come ON!

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    1. I wasn't going to embarrass you by telling Dwija about how you are inordinately pleased at your squared birthday, but you already did it and more, so now I am going to embarrass Meg. She told me (and probably you, too, Rosie) that she is annoyed at her SSN for being one digit off being a palindrome. But I am not going to share it here so that you can see how it works.

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  9. I think you're as bad as me. LOL! With my most recent baby I looked at my planner each week to determine which dates would be the most convenient for me to go into labor. And, if that's not picky enough, I also decided that I simply would not be delivering another baby in the middle of the night and I simply had to be well-rested, because labor takes up way too much energy for me to chase a two year old all day and then have to labor at night. Oddly enough, I managed to have the baby on a day I deemed convenient, early enough in the day to make sure the pediatrican would see the baby that day so we could go home the next. It was a neurotic person's dream come true. Of course, my plans to actually go to soccer games,Mass and teach CCD last weekend just days after delivering were ultimately too unrealistic even for me to pull off, but that's ok. I'm just happy the little guy got here 8 days early.

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  10. That was really cool! I can't believe you have all that figured out!

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  11. I've been wearing my watch on my right wrist since I was a kid. I didn't know it was weird not to.

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  12. wow. Just,,,wow. I have never even *thought* to look at my kids' birthdates like that. I don't even know what days my kids were born on. I feel completely stupid now. There could be some hidden pattern there I don't even know about!!! AGHH! I must resolve this tonight!

    I hope you go into labor on the date you predict. Because I really do love a good pattern,,,,

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  13. I'm so glad I waited to read this before making my guess. It pays to be oblivious, I guess. May 23rd is my mom's birthday and she is pretty much the greatest human alive, so I'll go with that. Are guessing times? If so, I'll go with 5:15 p.m. Weight: 8 lbs 7 oz. Bonus points: he will be as cute as a button, I just know it.

    As to your number obsession, I love it. Mine is not as mathematical, but here goes. I love odd numbers, they're my favorite because they're odd like me. All my babies were born in odd years: '05, '07, '09, '11 (until this little in-utero one) and 3 out of 4 have odd birthdays, 7th, 9th, 11th. The only even one is a fluke though, because I got the stomach flu which put me into labor almost 2 weeks early. Zeke was born 5/11/11 at 11:11 a.m. He might be my favorite child for that reason.

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  14. Our first child was due October 7th, but ended up coming four weeks early and just so happen to be born 09/09/09. My husband is 10/10 and we have another child who is 3/3. The boys were both born in the 20's...8/26 and 5/21. I'm curious to see if our new baby boy will also be born in the twenties, but he's due on 6/16! So we'll see :)

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    1. I should have been more clear...was just thinking about it. The boys have followed me by being born in the twenties so far...mine is 1/24 and the girls have followed by husband by having double digits. Just thought it was neat.

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    2. Wow, those birthdays are the best! When I was pregnant in '04, '06, and '10, I thought it was probably a good thing I wasn't due in April, June, and October or I would have had to talk myself out of inductions just for the awesome birthdays.

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  15. My boys' birthdays, in order, are 3/8, 3/12, and 7/24. I was in labor all day March 7th with #1 and was pretty bummed he waited another 6 hours because my mom's bday is 2/7, her brother's is 1/7, and her mom's is 5/7, and another 7th would have been great.

    All 6 of us (husband, 3 birthed boys, 1 in-utero boy) have even-year birthdays, which I find satisfying because we all have odd/even birthdays the same years.

    It's a big year for our extended family because my MIL turns 60, FIL turns 80, SIL turns 30, and son turns 10.

    I've liked the fact that my boys' birthday months and days both get bigger consecutively. Mar-Mar-July, 8-12-24. Odd months, even days (multiples of 4). It feels like they get older in the right order, no one gets to jump ahead. Except New Baby is going to mess up at least the months since he'll be born somewhere between late May and very early July, but almost certainly June. May 28th would let me keep the increasing dates/mults of 4/odd months. But I probably shouldn't hope for a 36 1/2 weeker just for that. June 28th would be almost as good, but 41 weeks sounds worse.

    When my first was due Feb 22nd, I had a list of all the potential fun birthdays: Valentines 2/14 husband's grandpa 2/15, husband 2/17, husband's cousin 2/18, husband's cousin 2/20, my grandpa 2/23, sister's husband 2/28, leap day 2/29, my half-birthday 3/1, fun numbers in Europe 3/2/04, another 7th on 3/7. But no, he let them all go by and came 3/8/04.

    I was bummed to have 2 babies due within a week of my half-birthday but neither hit it.

    My birthday is the 1st of a month and I think because of that, I prefer single-digit birthdays and always remember those better than others, especially in the 20's. I can never keep birthdays in the 20's straight. It took me 3 months to remember that my 3rd son was born on the 24th because he was born at 1am and it felt like it was still the 23rd to me. One of my 3 nieces was born on Feb 1st and I make a bigger deal about it because I like that date the best. All my other nieces and nephews (5) are born in the 20's/30 and I mix them all up.

    Yes, I have a few number OCD issues, yes I do.

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  16. It still annoys me that they insisted on inducing my third on an odd-numbered day when all the other kids' days, months and years, including number three's month and year, are even. Just because he was two months early, had had broken waters for five weeks and was in distress. You have to have priorities, people! I also loved that a while back my children, who were born in 2002, '04, '08 and '10, were aged 2, 4, 8 and 10. And yes, before anyone asks, there was supposed to be a 6-yr-old born in '06, but it turns out Mother Nature is no respecter of OCD mummies.

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  17. I totally do this number thing with the birthdays too! We all have birthday buddies in our family. I had a baby the day after my birthday, a day before my husband's birthday, twins share:), older girls four days apart for theirs. Only one sweet, spunky little girl stands alone and believe me she needs her own day.:) So much fun!! It has to be the 23rd...makes total sense to me. Oh and I'm going with 9.8 lbs, you can do this!

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  18. I do the same thing! So far my birth kids all have been born in even years (2008, 2010, 2012) and here we are about to finalize an adoption of our oldest in ....you guessed it.....2014 :) So clearly this means I can't possibly get pregnant again until about April of next year so I can have a 2016 baby, cause that would just make sense :) If I get pregnant before then I might be a teeny bit disappointed just because of breaking our even-numbered years pattern.

    Also, all my birth kids have birthdays on even days (6-28-08, 11-12-10, 11-30-12). I hate odd numbers so this trend totally works for me!

    I think your logic for Friday, the 23rd totally makes sense to me!

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  19. Oh we are freaky too!
    April May June July wait 3 months
    October wait 3 months January.
    10, 11, 19, 21, 21, 22

    And that with no typos! That blood builder is even better after 5 days!
    Happy Mothers Day! ~Kara

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  20. Yes, numbers freaks unite!! As you know, my guess is also May 23rd and it will be so awesome when (not if) he is born on Friday, May 23rd. 3 of my children are born on the 23rd: 5/23, 6/23, and 12/23. Additionally, my niece and nephew are 8/23 and 4/23. 23 is obvi. the tops.

    And this is not strictly numerical, but I am also secretly super-pleased that I have managed to have each of my babies in a different month. And it was close a couple of times as I have a kid born on the 1st of the month and a kid born on the 31st. They really made me sweat it out there! :)
    So far we've got February, March, May, June, July, August, December. I always say that if we have another, we will only have January, April, October, or November to work with!

    Can't wait to hear when PB arrives, whenever that is!

    (Ahem. May 23rd)

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  21. Oh and I forgot to say: I had a baby on 8/9/10. Having missed 04/04/04 by a few days I was very proud ;).

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  22. I went into labor on August 17 and was really glad my Mary wasn't born until 1:10 a.m. on the 18th, because I just can't do prime numbers. So even though she made me push for two hours, I have a great sense of peace that her birthday is composed of all even numbers: 08/18/12. :)

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  23. OKOKOK, have you made sure the baby KNOWS when his arrival is supposed to happen? Because we can hall hope and pray, but if he has't gotten the invitation, you might be missing someone.

    Briana

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  24. Im not a math person but I still love this. My kids are each born 22 months apart. Our next baby is technically due to be born at 22 months and 2 weeks apart so of course in hoping he arrives 2 weeks early. Of course.

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  25. Our first two were born on the firsts of their birth months (our first was two weeks late, second was two weeks early) and I think my MIL has still not forgiven me for having #3 on the 28th. Then #4 was the 27th of a different month. We'll see with #5.

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  26. I'm like this, too! Only my babes all were born on odd dates. Even my husband and I were born on odd dates. So, I'm hoping my current baby in utero won't be the odd (read: even) one out!

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