I was just wondering if this due date was correct? “she is “four months and a bit” along, giving her a late August/early September due date.”

The reason I ask is that my due date is Sept.6, and I think of myself as only 3 months and a bit right now (I’m at 14 weeks). Am I counting wrong? Don’t mean to be dumb, this is my first baby and I just wondered if I was off in some way or if Minnie’s due date might be sooner. Thanks!

Sarah’s note: I answered on the other Minnie post you asked on, so I’m just copy and pasting it over here.

We use this, which we find very helpful. If Minnie was anywhere between 14-17 weeks when she announced last week, she will be 40 weeks in late August/early September.

my intuition says it’s a boy. She’s hillarious. All the best to her, she looks great and the dress is fab!

I’m a HUGE fan of hers, she was so incredibly funny on Ellen. I’ve never actually laughed during a show but the whole time I just couldn’t stop.

Congrats too her she seems soooooo incredibly happy.

“I just don’t think that comment is necessary, and that is my opinion. Why couldn’t she just have said “I think it’s a girl”?
I know she won’t be crushed, I just don’t think it’s something you sghould feel the need to express to the country.”

uh, so Minnie’s comments should be policed? not everything people say will be something you think should be expressed. Apart from that, it was not an outrageous comment. And “I think it’s a girl” does not mean the same as “I am hoping for a girl.”

Very different things and no reason for her to mask her desire for a girl. She’s didn’t confess to being a man-hater or anything.

It’s just a light conversation between her and Jay about her impending arrival, sheesh!

love her

I doubt that, she was very clear why she didn’t want to know, it wasn’t a brush-off ‘no’ answer like some celebs who just don’t want to share.

She probably knows already it’s a girl, and that’s why she said it lol. Anyway congrats to her. As for last names, I’m old fashion I like kids to have their father’s last name, but to each is own. She looks cute pregnant.

Interesting question Eve – I have a lot of students with same sex parents and its a pretty even split between taking the name of one parent or hyphenating. I also have twins with two fathers – one has the last name of one father and the other has the name of the other! The reverse is true of their middle names. They love it

Does anyone know what the trend is for last names of same sex couples with children?
Do they hyphenate or pick one name? I think it would be harder ’cause in alot of places they can’t legally get married, which is ridiculous if you ask me (and I’m not even gay).

There’s a writer here in Australia who created a new last name with her husband. One of the papers here did a story about it (URL below) that’s fairly interesting. She was Tegan Bennett and her husband was Russell Dow-Sainter. Apparently they had used Mr and Mrs Daylight as a jokey nickname for themselves, and then changed to it officially after they married. Now I think she publishes under Tegan Bennett Daylight because she had previously written as Tegan Bennett. I have similar concerns about changing mine, because I’ve been writing professionally/academically with my maiden name… and it’ll be a hassle continually explaining that the old publications belong to me- which is why I’m leaning towards hyphenating. My family have jokingly mashed our surnames together and I sign cards with it – but it’s too silly to be our real surname.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/26/1027497411079.html