Is it due 7/19 or Is it due on 7/19?

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[nq:1]Is it due July 19? Is it due on July 19. I believe both are correct.[/nq]
(This might not mean much to you but a lot of AUErs will get it)

Both are correct. But it will probably turn up next week after intervention, having threatened to arrive spontaneously any day for the last three weeks.

Jac, wishing due dates were definite dates

Le Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:10:39 +0000 (UTC), Jacqui a écrit :
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[nq:2]Is it due July 19? Is it due on July 19. I believe both are correct.[/nq]
[nq:1](This might not mean much to you but a lot of AUErs will get it) Both are correct. But it ... intervention, having threatened to arrive spontaneously any day for the last three weeks. Jac, wishing due dates were def

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[nq:1]Jacqui a écrit :[/nq]
[nq:2]Jac, wishing due dates were definite dates[/nq]
[nq:1]You have my sympathy. The uncertainties of those last few days, which might or might not turn out to be weeks, makes us appreciate the meaning behind that old phrase "ladies in waiting".[/nq]
At least I know it will not be weeks from now, I have that in writing, although s

[nq:1]Le Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:10:39 +0000 (UTC), Jacqui a écrit :[/nq]
[nq:2]Jac, wishing due dates were definite dates[/nq]
[nq:1]You have my sympathy. The uncertainties of those last few days, which might or might not turn out to be weeks, makes us appreciate the meaning behind that old phrase "ladies in waiting".[/nq]
Mine as well -- my little parasite hung in almost two weeks past

[nq:1]Some mothers of twins go into hospital at about the five-month stage.[/nq]
My mother didn't know she was carrying twins until an hour or so after the first (my sister) was born.

Them were the days.

-- Mickwick

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[nq:2]Le Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:10:39 +0000 (UTC), Jacqui a ... appreciate the meaning behind that old phrase "ladies in waiting".[/nq]
[nq:1]Mine as well -- my little parasite hung in almost two weeks past his "due date."[/nq]
I'm told my parents originally feared I might arrive on February 29th. Actually it was March 24th.

I sure hope diagnostics have improved

[nq:2]Some mothers of twins go into hospital at about the five-month stage.[/nq]
[nq:1]My mother didn't know she was carrying twins until an hour or so after the first (my sister) was born.[/nq]
My grandmother was a midwife in the 1920s and 30s. She attended a birth fully expecting to deliver twins. Baby number three was the real surprise.

[nq:2]My mother didn't know she was carrying twins until an hour or so after the first (my sister) was born.[/nq]
[nq:1]My grandmother was a midwife in the 1920s and 30s. She attended a birth fully expecting to deliver twins. Baby number three was the real surprise.[/nq]
Mum (born in 1930) is an unexpected triplet. One sister died a few days after birth but the "twins" are both still with

[nq:2]My grandmother was a midwife in the 1920s and 30s. She attended a birth fully expecting to deliver twins. Baby number three was the realsurprise.[/nq]
[nq:1]Mum (born in 1930) is an unexpected triplet. One sister died a few days after birth but the "twins" are both still with us. There were no incubators of course - the tiny babes were laid in boxes lined with cotton wool and olive oil.

[nq:2]Mum (born in 1930) is an unexpected triplet. One sister ... laid in boxes lined with cotton wool and olive oil.[/nq]
[nq:1]Great-grandmother's first (scandal! Born on Great-grandmother's wedding day! Allegedly) was put in the oven. Of course, this was at the turn of the last century, and the oven was a range, with a warmer.[/nq]
Farming families have been putting orphan lambs in the