Contest Time! Candy’s Super-Appropriate Baby Betting Pool

Step right up and place your bets, folks!

Readers have suggested observing the imminent (?) arrival of Baby Girl with the purest form of celebration:  a betting pool.   Which Mr. Candy thought was a grand idea.  Because what better way to christen a precious new life than with a li’l gambling?!

So please help us welcome Baby Girl into this world with a prize on her head.   (The winner of The Pool will receive Votre Vu’s Cheveux Heureux Shampoo Riche, a $28 value.)  Simply guess when you think she will arrive — just the birth date — and, for the purposes of a tie-breaker, her birth weight. And, for the purposes of a tie-breaker-breaker, who you think her baby daddy is.

No!  I kid!  Mr. Candy is the daddy.  I’m almost certain. 

Some back-story to help you make a more educated guess:

Due date: July 28, 2009

Mucus plug status: Gone… gone… outta here

Membrane sweep: Two of ’em; July 16 and 23

State of the Cervix (as of this morning):  1-1/2 cm dilated; 80 percent effaced

Ultrasound-based weight estimate: 6 lbs., 5 oz. as of July 10

MY birth weight: 9 lbs., 13 oz. (or, in medical terms, a little porker).  In my defense, however, I WAS a month late.  *AHEM*

Place your bets in the comments section.   One entry per person (please use your real e-mail address).  Best o’ luck, Baby Betters!

THE PRIZE

Votre Vu’s Cheveux Heureux Shampoo Riche

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UPDATE:  BETTING POOL IS NOW CLOSED!  BUT YOU ARE, OF COURSE, WELCOME TO STILL VENTURE A GUESS FOR FUN.