Seewalds 15 - American Baby (Baby is Here!)

[anotherone]

43 minutes ago, VeganCupcake said:

They sound quite easy to make? I went to her IG and several leghumpers are actually buying/raving about them. How can people afford $40 PLUS SHIPPING for 4 little cupcakes? I guess it's the whole "fame" aspect. Omg these cupcakes were touched by Ciara's holy hands. 

One IG commenter actually wrote that these jar cakes are a great deal because they saw someone else charging $69.99 for a four-pack. WHAT?! Why do people think cupcakes smushed into a mason jar are a rare delicacy? 

Christians are supposed to be all love your neighbor, but I think many of them are really trying to make a big buck off everyone else because they know people will buy stuff just because it's associated with Jesus somehow.  I mean, it's a great audience to try to fleece.  Think of how much money people are willing to give to churches especially TV evangelists.  I've seen stuff on etsy or other art and craft sites where if the pictures have a cross or the saying is bible related they seem to charge a ridiculously high price.  So I can easily believe that the woman would like to play up the fame aspect and the IG commenter would defend her.

[Carm_88]

Seemonkey Birthpool 

Date:

Jan 16 - TeamDefraudinSquad

Jan 26 - GotCaughtDancing/VixenToast

Jan 27 - nst/Mizandry/

Jan 28 - actuallyjessica/Four is Enough

Jan 29 - SorenaJ/Kira

Jan 30 – Bugaboo

Jan 31- nst/seasonsoflife/Karma

Feb 1 - ScorpiousMalfoy/Justmy2cents/Kira/Joyleaf/19kittens/Jatalie1996/Nashville92/Mela99/Captain Obvious/nst

Feb 2 - Pasta/ViolaSebastian/goldengrove/Dandruff/Kangaroo/freedom_for_all

Feb 3 - 3arrowsandnotcounting/Fundie Bunny/MotherofDragons/freedom_for_all

Feb 4 - Carm_88/SassyPants/RosieDaisy/ General Jinjur/singsingsing/twoanddone/OytoTheVey

Feb 5 - frugalitymom/Bad Wolf/VineHeart137/JermajestyDuggar/season of life/GoddessofVictory/candygirl20013/meee/AlwaysExcited/Sydney Fox/AnnaRuk09/ChunkyBarbie/snickerz

Feb 6 - Incognito22/HarleyQuinn/nst/calimojo

Feb 7 - HRM1216/Nicole Jinger Duggar/WhyNotJulie

Feb 8- wikinggirl/Hollywood/Jinder Roles

Feb 9 - CatchThatCow/VixenToast/pamplemousse/Malizabeth

Feb 10 - Screamapillar/Stormy

Feb 11 – sndral/fish_ca

Feb 12 - TeamDefraudinSquad

Feb 13 - NakedKnees

Feb 14 - eveandadam/Buzzard/sansan

Feb 15- Jiraffe

Feb 16 - habert

 

Names:

Boys:

Aiden Benjamin- Nashville92

Balthazar - Coffeebean7

Baxter Wyatt - habert

Benjamin Robert - 19kittens

Bodhi-Bob Tozer Elias – GotCaughtDancing

Boy-with-a-fairly-normal-name- seasonsoflife

Bunyan Carroll- Sydney Fox

Calvin- JermajestyDuggar

Calvin Benjamin- season of life

Calvin Emanuel – SassyPants

Calvin Graham- Jilli

Calvin Knox - Four is Enough

Calvin Michael- Dandruff

Calvin Robert- twoanddone/OytoTheVey

Carmichael Saint - Screamapillar

Cotton Mather - Denim Jumper

Dever Mark- fish_ca

Dever Sproul- Pasta

Dietrich- Mela99

Eff Jay- AnnaRuk09

Elijah - elliha

Flame Calvin - sndral

Harris- Mela99

Hart - sansan

Hudson Beckett/Wycliffe – Adidas

Hyder- Mela99

Increase Mather - FloraKitty35

Irenaues Newton- Carm_88

Knox Luther Calvin Jesus - VixenToast

Kumbaya – MoonFace

Leland- Malizabeth

Liddell Bunyan- jas

Luther Charles – eveandadam

Martin Luther- Mercer

McRae- Mela99

Mordecai Haddon- ChunkyBarbie

Mordecai Westley - Wenny

Obadiah-Yaoichan12

Pence Bannon- HarryPotterFan

Peregrine Moses James - Gobsmacke

Rodicul Vincent - Pasta

Rosh Benjamin – Kira

Samson-eveandadam

Samuel- eveandadam

Solomon Christian- freejoy

Some Stupid Name- HarleyQuinn

Stud Benjamin - epic fail/nst

Sue- freedom_for_all

Tenboom Bob- jas

Thorncrown Michael- Helena Handbaket

Tebow Tozer - CatchThatCow

Tozer - Babsi/3arrowsandnotcounting/nst/wikinggirl/Dandruff/Jessalyn/withaj/snickerz

Tozer Arthur - MargaretElliott

Tozer Benjamin - Actuallyjessica/Mizandry/Jatalie1996

Tozer Benjamin Jesus - WhyNotJulie

Tozer Calvin - SorenaJ/Stormy/WhyNotJulie

Tozer Isaiah- HarleyQuinn

Tozer Martin - Incognito22

Ulysses Tozer - Stormy

Ulysses Wyatt - habert

Von Zinzedndorf Calvin- General Jinjur

Washer Calvin- TuringMachine

Wilberforce - jqlgoblue

Wilberforce Josiah - Nicole Jinger Duggar

Wilberforce Knox – MargaretElliott

Wycliffe Calvin- pamplemousse

 

Girls:

Allison – fluffernutter

Azubah Esther- General Jinjur

Benoni Grace - Kira

Blessed Faith - MoonFace

Bodhi-Bob Tozer Elias – GotCaughtDancing

Charlotte Anne- Sydney Fox

Charlotte Hope - HRM1216

Corrie Tenboom- Swamptribe

Daisy Conway - hasunah

Dorcas - Dubiousclaire

Ephratah - habert

Faith Michelle- tabitha2

Felicity Grace- ChunkyBarbie

Galilee – JermajestyDuggar

Galilee Faith (Lily)- twoanddone

Girl-with-a-huge-bow- Karma

Grace- Vineheart137

Guinndolyn- Yaoichan12

Haphzibah Ivankah- HarryPotterFan

Heart - sansan

Heaven Pleasure- nst

Hope Michelle - Carm_88

Inheritance Grace- singsingsing

Isla-calimojo

Jessa Jr- Jinder Roles

Judith Esther- VixenToast

Katherine - fluffernutter

Kumbaya – Moonface

Lottie Moon- AlwaysExcited

Lydia Rose- meee

Mariah Nicole - Wenny

Nature theme - epic fail

Nevaeh Grace - Bad Wolf

Novalee-Grace Carmichael - MargaretElliott

Obscure Religious -

Old-fashioned - MargaretElliott

Olivia Grace – Kira

Paris- Snickerz

Penelope Guinn (PenGuinn) - Dandruff/who else said this last thread???

Prudynce Crystal- Jiraffe

Pink – jqlgoblue

Psalm Lottie- TuringMachine

Prime Snarking Material

Prudence - Fundie Bunny

Reasonably Normal (Unusual Spelling)- Kangaroo

Sandra- eveandadam

Sarah Elizabeth- meee

Selah – SportsGalAnnie

Selah Gwyn- pamplemousse

Selah Michelle – QuiverFullofBooks

Selah Tozer- AnnaRuk09

Shoshana Guinn/Susannah Guinn- Captain Obvious

Siloam- eveandadam

Slessor Carmichael - Mizandry

Slessor Haseltine - Joyleaf

Sophia Nicole- Nashville92

Sybille Michelle- freejoy

Temperance Faith- ChunkyBarbie

Virtue Name - ScorpiusMalfoy/Jiraffe/Carm_88/

Zipporah/Tsipporah - Wenny

 

Unisex Names

Prime Snarking Material – VelociRapture

Dever Dunlop (?)

Magnet (?)

 

Weight/Length:

Weight:

4 kilos (8 pounds 13 ounces)- elliha

6lbs – Pasta

7lbs 5 oz-tabitha2

7lbs 6oz – ViolaSebastian

7lbs 8oz- season of life

7lbs 10oz- Helena Handbaket

7lbs 11oz - HRM1216

8lbs - nst/habert/goldengrove

8lbs 3oz- Jinder Roles

8lbs 5oz- Captain Obvious

8lbs 6oz - Wenny

8lbs 7oz - Nicole Jinger Duggar/Incognito22

8lbs 8oz - Bad Wolf/

8lbs 10oz - Bugaboo/Nashville92

8lbs 13oz - Screamapillar

8lbs 14oz - VixenToast

8lbs 15oz – GotCaughtDancing/pamplemousse

9lbs- General Jinjur/singsingsing

9lbs 1oz- JermajestyDuggar

9lbs 2oz- MotherofDragons

9lbs 4oz - 3arrowsandnotcounting

9lbs 7oz - actuallyjessica

9lbs 8oz – SassyPants/AnnaRuk09

9lbs 12oz – Stormy/meee

9lbs+ -snickerz

10lbs - eveandadam/19kittens/HarleyQuinn

10lbs 3oz - sndral

Bigger than Spurgeon- Kangaroo

Smaller than Spurgeon- calimojo

 

Length:

19.5 in - HRM1216

20in - Bugaboo/Wenny/tabitha2

21in - VixenToast/actuallyjessica/singsingsing

21.5 in- pamplemousse

22in - Incognito22

 

I'm going to say that February 3rd is not the date of Seemonkey's birth, although if I am wrong, I'll change that! I share a birthday with Jenny McCarthy (Gross), Toni Collette, Anthony Kiedis, and Penn Badgerly. An interesting fact is that in 1955 the Vietnam War started on November 1st and William Shakespeare liked to have plays performed for the first time on that day. 

But most importantly, Jessa and Ben got married on that day and I nearly shared my birthday with Spurgie. 

[HermioneSparrow]

39 minutes ago, Mrs. Figg said:

That's my bday! And Demi Lovato?! I know 3-4 other people that have that bday too. We're not alone!

True. Yay! You're my bday buddy. (I googled it and it's Amy Adams bday as well).

[lomo6]

19 hours ago, Rachel333 said:

If you have just 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two of them will share a birthday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

Of course, the statistics are based on the assumption that every day is equally probable, which is probably a fair assumption for that situation, but some birthdays actually are more common than others (my birthday is one of the 10 least common). You can see a chart here: http://thedailyviz.com/2016/09/17/how-common-is-your-birthday-dailyviz/

Whoa interesting. I see that September seems to be the most popular month, with the conception date being around the holidays. That makes sense intuitively, as a lot of people probably start think about starting/growing a family around them.

What's fascinating to me is the stand-alone days that totally differ from their neighbors (like July 4thing being really rare unlike the days immediately before or after it, or February 14th being really common unlike its neighbors), or clusters of super common/uncommon dates right next to each other (like December 23-26th being very uncommon, but December 27th-30th being very common). A lot of these anomalies center around holidays, so I wonder if people like the idea of a Valentine's Day baby so try to hold out or push hard if they start going into labor around then, and then the opposite with 4th of July? Or they want to make it through Christmas without the baby and so then a bunch of people start going into labor immediately after? 

And @kmary1, people are just as likely to be born on the same day as a different day assuming it really is a 1/365 chance. 

 

[JMO]

This thread is moving so quickly I keep coming here to see if the baby was born.

[Casserole]

15 minutes ago, lomo6 said:

Whoa interesting. I see that September seems to be the most popular month, with the conception date being around the holidays. That makes sense intuitively, as a lot of people probably start think about starting/growing a family around them.

What's fascinating to me is the stand-alone days that totally differ from their neighbors (like July 4thing being really rare unlike the days immediately before or after it, or February 14th being really common unlike its neighbors), or clusters of super common/uncommon dates right next to each other (like December 23-26th being very uncommon, but December 27th-30th being very common). A lot of these anomalies center around holidays, so I wonder if people like the idea of a Valentine's Day baby so try to hold out or push hard if they start going into labor around then, and then the opposite with 4th of July? Or they want to make it through Christmas without the baby and so then a bunch of people start going into labor immediately after? 

And @kmary1, people are just as likely to be born on the same day as a different day assuming it really is a 1/365 chance. 

 

I can say 27 years ago, my mom went into labor on the 4th of July, was told her doctor was out for the holiday and they gave her some tocolytic medication to delay the labor for a day or two... Sounds like malpractice to me but it was a different time and they were all cool with it. 

[JesusCampSongs]

24 minutes ago, lomo6 said:

What's fascinating to me is the stand-alone days that totally differ from their neighbors (like July 4thing being really rare unlike the days immediately before or after it, or February 14th being really common unlike its neighbors), or clusters of super common/uncommon dates right next to each other (like December 23-26th being very uncommon, but December 27th-30th being very common). A lot of these anomalies center around holidays, so I wonder if people like the idea of a Valentine's Day baby so try to hold out or push hard if they start going into labor around then, and then the opposite with 4th of July? Or they want to make it through Christmas without the baby and so then a bunch of people start going into labor immediately after? 

I have heard from some of my friends who are employed in the medical field that it's very common for women who are due in late December or early January to request inductions either right before Christmas or in between Christmas and New Year's for financial reasons, mainly tax and insurance. If you have a baby in December, you're eligible for the child tax credit (and also EITC, according to the IRS website) for that year. If you have health insurance and a deductible that resets January 1st, it makes sense to go for an induction at the end of the year so you don't have to pay it again.

[Lurker]

My birthday is in mid December as well as many cousins.  We figured out long ago that most of us were conceived on St. Patrick's Day.

 

 

[lomo6]

42 minutes ago, JesusCampSongs said:

I have heard from some of my friends who are employed in the medical field that it's very common for women who are due in late December or early January to request inductions either right before Christmas or in between Christmas and New Year's for financial reasons, mainly tax and insurance. If you have a baby in December, you're eligible for the child tax credit (and also EITC, according to the IRS website) for that year. If you have health insurance and a deductible that resets January 1st, it makes sense to go for an induction at the end of the year so you don't have to pay it again.

That makes a lot of sense, but is also a very sad indictment of our healthcare system.

[karen77]

17 minutes ago, lomo6 said:

That makes a lot of sense, but is also a very sad indictment of our healthcare system.

this totally happens! I asked to be induced on my due date with  my daughter, (Dec 17) so we could keep her as far from Xmas as possible. Luckily, I didn't have to worry about the tax stuff, I would have been over 42 weeks if we went to January. Needless to say, my water broke on the 14th and I still had to be induced (no labor), but she arrived on the 15th.

[Carm_88]

22 minutes ago, lomo6 said:

That makes a lot of sense, but is also a very sad indictment of our healthcare system.

I wonder if that would make the dates different here in Canada. I imagine that the 4th of July would be more common here because it's just another day. Interesting, now I'm intrigued. 

[SorenaJ]

1 hour ago, lomo6 said:

What's fascinating to me is the stand-alone days that totally differ from their neighbors (like July 4thing being really rare unlike the days immediately before or after it, or February 14th being really common unlike its neighbors), or clusters of super common/uncommon dates right next to each other (like December 23-26th being very uncommon, but December 27th-30th being very common). A lot of these anomalies center around holidays, so I wonder if people like the idea of a Valentine's Day baby so try to hold out or push hard if they start going into labor around then, and then the opposite with 4th of July? Or they want to make it through Christmas without the baby and so then a bunch of people start going into labor immediately after? 

And @kmary1, people are just as likely to be born on the same day as a different day assuming it really is a 1/365 chance. 

 

4th of July is not common, as scheduled c-sections and inductions do not happen on that date. Just like lot of people, given the choice, might want to have their baby born on Valentine's Day, because it is a special day. 

Also, more births happen midweek because that is when inductions and c-sections are scheduled for. 

[justmy2cents]

1 minute ago, SorenaJ said:

4th of July is not common, as scheduled c-sections and inductions do not happen on that date. Just like lot of people, given the choice, might want to have their baby born on Valentine's Day, because it is a special day. 

My friend's birthday is July 4th but she was born overseas.

[SorenaJ]

2 minutes ago, justmy2cents said:

My friend's birthday is July 4th but she was born overseas.

Yep, in all other countries than the US, 4th of July is just as common as other days. Look at Thanksgiving as well. Again, those dates are probably very common in other countries. 

[justmy2cents]

22 minutes ago, SorenaJ said:

Yep, in all other countries than the US, 4th of July is just as common as other days. Look at Thanksgiving as well. Again, those dates are probably very common in other countries. 

My nephew was born on thanksgiving as was my friend's daughter, go figure. Also once in a blue moon Thanksgiving falls on my mom's birthday. November is our busiest month (dad's birthday in there too.) All family birthdays fall in the six months from October 2nd to March 25th.

[SorenaJ]

7 minutes ago, justmy2cents said:

My nephew was born on thanksgiving as was my friend's daughter, go figure. Also once in a blue moon Thanksgiving falls on my mom's birthday. November is our busiest month (dad's birthday in there too.) All family birthdays fall in the six months from October 2nd to March 25th.

I have a friends whose 2 children were born in (late) November and January, because each spring she would get broody and want another baby, which is when they were conceived. She only ended up with those two, though. 

[SamiKatz]

My sister was born on Mother's Day (first child too) and had my nephew #1 on Valentine's Day, and nephew #2  on (Canadian) Thanksgiving.  We teased her and asked if she was aiming for all the secondary holidays, but nephew #3 was born in June.

[Kailash]

I figured out why the name Spurgeon bothers me so much. The "urge" part of it grosses me out. Some people get squicked out by the word moist. I feel sick hearing any word with urge in it. Purge, Splurge, Spurgeon. *barf*

[Snarkle Motion]

1 hour ago, SorenaJ said:

4th of July is not common, as scheduled c-sections and inductions do not happen on that date. Just like lot of people, given the choice, might want to have their baby born on Valentine's Day, because it is a special day. 

Also, more births happen midweek because that is when inductions and c-sections are scheduled for. 

A lot of this also has to do with doctors schedules as you are pointing out. It's not just what parents are choosing but what the hospital team is choosing for convenient scheduling and preference for which days they'd like to work. 

[Rachel333]

There are several holiday birthdays in my family. I have six uncles and aunts and two have holiday birthdays -- December 25 and July 4. I also have a cousin born on December 31 and both another cousin and I have late November birthdays which coincide with Thanksgiving every few years.

[HarryPotterFan]

16 hours ago, Fun Undies said:

Hey hey hey, no conception story is "better" than anybody else's <3 ~ Your IVF conception story is filled with science, and awesomesauce (that is just a coolio expression, and not a not-so-subtle pun for sperm) haha. 

 I almost choked on what I was eating. Lmao.

7 hours ago, Fundie Bunny said:

You all can take a sit. I share a birthday with Harry Potter and JK and you can't get any cooler than that 

Jealous! You're the coolest. 

Imagine how depressing it must be to be a Duggar. No Harry Potter.

[Kak]

I don't have any science to back up my claim, but in Ireland early December babies are often a result of St Paddy's day.

[SassyPants]

1 hour ago, SamiKatz said:

My sister was born on Mother's Day (first child too) and had my nephew #1 on Valentine's Day, and nephew #2  on (Canadian) Thanksgiving.  We teased her and asked if she was aiming for all the secondary holidays, but nephew #3 was born in June.

My MIL had an Easter, Halloween, Christmas and 2 NY's eve babies. All natural and no inductions. She also had 5 kids in 4 years and 7 kids in 10 years. Good Irish Catholic.

43 minutes ago, Kak said:

I don't have any science to back up my claim, but in Ireland early December babies are often a result of St Paddy's day.

3 of my Irish IL's (They are from Ireland) kids were born In Dec. as was my MIL.

[Dandruff]

4 hours ago, JMO said:

This thread is moving so quickly I keep coming here to see if the baby was born.

I'm sure that a bunch of the Duggar's friends and relatives are doing the same.

[Queen]

9 hours ago, Fundie Bunny said:

You all can take a sit. I share a birthday with Harry Potter and JK and you can't get any cooler than that 

I share a birthday with Voldemort. A little pissed of at JKR for choosing the date that happened to be my birthday for her greatest villian, but it's a cool story to tell!  I may or may not blurt out this random fact every now and then, just because it's funny and bizarre and I have a warped sense of humor... 

And apparently Trump's child Donald Jr is also born that day. I almost got a heart attack when I read "Donald J Trump"   Gotta say I prefer He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named over the orange clown any day!