The final results are in

The final results are in from the big baby guess contest.

The overall winner of the Baby arrival date guessing game was Paul Welka (Gary's IBM colleague). He almost ran the table, getting nearly everything correct or very close.

The complete 'correct' info was:
Claire Abigail, girl, born April 29th, 2009 at 1:31pm, 7 lbs 6 ounces

Overall Winner:
Paul Welka
Girl, 4/29/2009, 10:00 am, 7 lbs 8 ounces

Day & Date winner (missing by 1 hour, 19 minutes):
Matt Novak (Gary's IBM colleague)
April 29, 2009, 12:12 pm

Weight winners (all guessing 7lbs 6 ounces):
Arno Huang (Gary's IBM colleague)
Kristina Huthmacher (Sarah's cousin in law)
Cody Schaff (Gary's IBM colleague)

Gender guesses favored a girl, 19 to 17. It seems like people had an accurate sense on this.


It looks like Claire came in a bit bigger than most people thought. The average guess was 7 lbs, 3 ounces, she came in at 7 lbs 6 ounces.


The majority of the guesses were expecting a late arrival for little Claire, but she showed up right on time, on her April 29th due date.

Baby Arrival Date Results, second update

We now have 34 guesses in.

The guesses are leaning toward girl, 18 to 14.


The guesses are still skewed toward a late arrival. Someone guessed 2 weeks early... but there are some popular dates, May 5th and April 26th seem to be the leaders


The weight guesses are all over the map though. Sarah isn't all that excited about the 8.5 pound ones though.


Invite others to guess the due date:
http://sarahgary.blogspot.com/2009/01/guess-baby-due-date.html

And for those that are interested, here is our baby registry:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/baby/2FW1T8GVM22OH

Baby Arrival Date Results, so far

We have had 14 guesses so far for the Baby Arrival Date survey.
I charted some of the guesses.

Gender guesses are evenly divided:


People look like they are expecting a late arrival:


7 pounds seems to be the safe guess for now:


Invite others to guess the due date:
http://sarahgary.blogspot.com/2009/01/guess-baby-due-date.html

And for those that are interested, here is our baby registry:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/baby/2FW1T8GVM22OH

Guess the Baby Due Date!

Here is your opportunity to get in on the fun.
Sarah and I know the gender of our bun-in-the-oven, but you don't. None of us know any of the other details.

Try to guess the due date & details of our kid to be.
Anyone can guess, tell your friends! We will periodically give the details on the guesses submitted so far. The prize is to be determined, maybe we will bronze the first dirty diaper.

• The due date is April 29th.
• This is our first child.
• Gary was 7 lbs, 2 ounces
• Sarah was 7 lbs 7 ounces