Friday, March 05, 1999
Millennium Baby an iffy proposition
BY SUE MacDONALD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
For this venture, you'll need the services of Lady Luck. And Mother Nature.
Because if you and your mate hanker for a Millennium Baby, born as close as possible to the dawning of the year 2000, you'll have to plan your conceptual rendezvous, so to speak, on or about April 9.
Or maybe April 10th. Or the 8th, depending.
“We have these little wheels that the drug companies are always giving out for calculating due dates because it's hard for us to figure out on our own,” jokes Cincinnati obstetrician Dr. Graig Smith, author of Common Pregnancy Myths (Woodview Publishing; $14.95). “If you use the wheel, it comes out on the 10th. When I did it by my subtraction method, I came up with April 8. So if you split the difference it'll be around the 9th.”
(The subtraction method: Take the date of a woman's last menstrual period, subtract three months and add a week for the baby's due date).
The British have dubbed the magical evening “bonk night.”
Dr. Smith points out, however, that few things are predictable when it comes to birthing babies.
“If you don't ovulate around then, it's tough luck,” the good doctor says. “You can try to get pregnant all you want around that time, but if there' no egg there, you're out of luck.”
Well, not necessarily.
“It's the trying that's the fun part.”
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