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Pregnancy Why Your Due Date Is a Guess, Not a Deadline One date, printed on everything, treated as a fact. Where it comes from, how wide the real spread is, and why your French cousin is counting to a different number. -
Pregnancy The Shortlist Feels Different Once It's Real You had five names you loved. Now there is movement, and only one of them still fits. Why the list shrinks on its own, and why that is not indecision. -
Pregnancy Telling People the Name Before the Birth Announcing the pregnancy and announcing the name are two different decisions, and the second one is the one that invites opinions you cannot un-hear. -
Pregnancy Second-Guessing the Name Mid-Pregnancy You decided weeks ago and now you are awake at three in the morning wondering if you got it wrong. How common that is, and how to tell nerves from a genuine mismatch.