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Do you remember how much Dannielynn weighed when she was born? I believe there are several ways to calculate the date of birth. I remember with my first baby, the Ob figured the date by counting days method, and she said the baby would be born about 2 1/2 weeks later than she was. However, using the method used in the website listed below, she was right on time, and so was the second child. They had to do an emergency C-section, and thought he would be 3 weeks premature, but after delivery, they said he was 5 to 6 weeks early. Thanks God, he is fine today and once they got his blood sugar regulated, he was fine.

I'm so glad your son is doing fine now. Premie births can still be dangerous even though modern medicine has made many advances. As for the counting days method, my doctor did that with me and my daughter was born exactly on her due date. I was also born exactly on my due date using the counting days method according to my mother. I think that method works very well for women with regular menstrual cycles and/or women who keep careful track of their menstrual cycles (on calendars for example). For women who aren't regular or don't keep track, that method isn't of much help. My guess is that even if ANS had regular cycles she probably wasn't good at keeping track of them and without the date of the start of the last period, the counting days method is useless.

Well, the ONE person that would know about Anna's last period is DEAD. So Howard and Larry could have said anything they wanted AFTER she died.

Howard was adamant...saying "according to his calendar", Dannielynn was conceived in December.

I'd like to know where Larry was for the WHOLE month of December!!

Thanks for your kind words. It was my grandson...I accidentally deleted the part where I had written that! I used the method where I added 7 days to the first day of my last period and counted back 3 months. I never understood how that worked since some months had 30 days and others had 31, but it worked twice for me. My mother used to say, "When the apple is ripe, it will drop"...I guess in her day, without all the present methods of counting, that was about as accurate as they cared to be.

If ANS was as promiscuous as it's been reported, I'm surprised she would have had any idea who the father was, but she did seem to know. I was thinking it's a shame she didn't pick a more responsible man to father her baby, but I don't imagine a self respecting and responsible man would have wanted to be intimate with her. It's hard to understand why people would risk getting STDs and other diseases that could destroy your life, isn't it?