Contest Countdown
Posted by Clifton Labrum on April 8, 2008We had a tremendous response to our dude date guessing contest. Thanks, everyone! Since we're down to the wire here, I'm going to keep a tally of the contestants' names below. We went to the doctor today, and it was decided that Jenn will be induced Monday, April 14th. So it looks like we can cross a few people off the list. Refer to this article for updates.
Kristi Burgess - April 20
Sara Richards - April 19
Judy Ward - April 17
Matt Draper - April 16
Cheryl Gibson - April 15
Craig Smith - April 14
Brenda Clark - April 13
Mark Richards - Apr 12
Peter Walker - April 11
Clifton Labrum - April 10
Dustin Rose - April 9
Shawna Bryan - April 8
Aaron Pace - April 7
Ashley Smith - April 6
Brandon Kempton - April 5
Kris Merriman - April 4
Christie & Abbie - April 3
Debby Peck - April 3
Hailey Smith - April 2
Mark Smith - April 1
Shannon Kempton - March 31
Maija-Liisa Phipps - March 30
Morgan Ward - March 29
Nicolle Rogers - March 28
Ashley, Rachel, Sariah, and Brock Smith - March 27
Hayley Labrum - March 23
Scott Leavitt - March 21
WOW!! That is coming so fast! Jenn, I had the silliest dream about you the other night. I will e-mail you.
Just so you know, you can't necessarily cross off those with predictions of the 15th and 16th of April. First of all, sometimes (and rather unfortunately!) you are induced on one day and don't actually have the baby (or babies in this case) until the next day. This happened to me. Second of all, sometimes (and this is REALLY unfortunate) they don't have enough beds at the hospital for you to be induced even when it has already be scheduled for months. This also just about happened to me. Since I was over by a week and none of the other 20 women scheduled for induction had passed their due date, I was the only women induced in the Utah Valley hospital the day I was scheduled for induction. So, she may easily have the babies sooner or induction may go quite smoothly, but I do think it's a little premature (ha, ha) to cross out any dates after the 14th.
Good luck! I am so excited for you!
We'll add the names back on should Jenn go beyond her due date. We're delivering at a hospital that never experiences a full capacity in the maternity ward. It's certainly possible that the induction take more than a day, though.
I guess we'll find out what'll happen soon enough. :)