Bonus Post: Baby Guesses

The time has come, the time is now! Lionel will make an appearance in approximately five weeks, give or take, and you need to get your guesses in before that happens! For your own personal sense of accomplishment, you may attempt to correctly predict the following:

1. Birth Date
2. Birth Time
3. Gender
4. Weight
5. Length

If there is any other tidbit you may wish to predict, putting it in your comment would be the best way to assure that you get proper psychic credit at a later time when it inevitably comes up in conversation.

Pertinent information: The ultrasound tech noted at the 20 week scan that the due date should be moved back a day or two because the femur length was shorter than expected.

The 36w 6d 3D ultrasound pic:

Interesting dates that could make having a baby more exciting and/or inconvenient:
August 17 - Josef's birthday.
August 20 - First day of school. Would Gretchen ever forgive us or Lionel if she missed this highly anticipated day due to a birth?
August 21 - Anything before this would be earlier than any of our other kids arrived. Kaitlyn was one week early.
August 25 - Church feast day picnic.
August 30 - My mom's birthday.
August 31 - Anything after this would be later than any of our other kids arrived. Gretchen was three days late.
September 1 - My grandma's birthday.
September 2 - The date that should have been our annual fun run, but we canceled it in anticipation of being busy. Will Lionel now be born exceptionally early or late to make us feel like we could have partied anyway?
September 3 - Walter's birthday.
September 11 - 42 weeks, and the point at which an induction would most likely be scheduled. Also late enough to make everyone a little nervous about Lionel being present at his own baptism, which is currently planned for the following week.

	Olivia	Gretchen	Kaitlyn	Matthias	Lionel
BIRTH DATE	August 3	April 24	March 27	July 11
My Calculated Due Date	August 3	April 21	April 3	July 12	August 28
Ultrasound Based Due Date	July 30	April 15	March 31	July 11	August 29
TIME BORN	12:58 pm	3:29 am	5:15 am	4:20 pm
Arrived at hospital	4:00 am, Wed (same day)	3:07 am, Wed (same day)	3:15 am, Fri (same day)	1:45 pm, Tues (same day)
GENDER	Girl	Girl	Girl	Boy
Bryan thinks/ thought	Girl	Boy	No strong feeling, but optimistically saying boy	Girl. 100% girl.	I’m rooting hard for a boy. But it’s a girl, of course.
Johannah thinks/ thought	No strong feeling	Girl	No strong feeling	Boy	Girl
Olivia thinks/ thought	N/A	No opinion	Girl	Girl	I don’t know. I’ll choose boy.
Gretchen thinks/ thought	N/A	N/A	No opinion	Girl	It has to be a boy. Matthias needs a brother.
Kaitlyn thinks/ thought	N/A	N/A	N/A	Girl	Girl (named Rudy)
Matthias thinks/ thought	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Whichever choice was given second.
Cravings	None	Chipotle, pizza with ranch, both once	Chips and salsa	French fries and Little Caesars pizza	None
Aversions	Cream of Mushroom Soup	None	None	Sweets	Sweets
First Trimester	Sleepy, never hungry	Starving	Hungry, but nothing sounds good	Never hungry	Never hungry, slight nausea
Sweet or salty snacks?	Salty	Both	Sweet during the day, salty at night	Salty	Salty
Fruit or meat?	Fruit	Fruit	Fruit	Fruit	Fruit
Weight gain	All in front	All in front	All in front	All in front	All in front
Carrying?	Low	High	Low	Low	Low
Complaints	Pain under right ribs from 4.5 months, mild heartburn	Shortness of breath from 6 months, mild heartburn (less than Olivia)	Pain under right ribs from 5 months, mild heartburn (less than Olivia, more than Gretchen)	Shortness of breath and dizziness from 3.5 months, heartburn, mild anemia, random back spasms	Shortness of breath and dizziness, heartburn (more than other kids)
WEIGHT	8 lbs, 5.8 oz	8 lbs, 0.2 oz	7 lbs, 9.5 oz	9 lbs, 4.7 oz
Johannah weight  @9-11 wks	132	124	128	128	128
Johannah weight @ 29-31 wks	144 (+12)	141 (+17)	140 (+12)	141 (+13)	139 (+11)
Johannah max weight	148 (+16)	144 (+20)	148 (+20)	145 (+17)
LENGTH	21 ¼ in	21 in	20 in	21 in

This table is getting crowded. :)