Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 10, 2013

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Yay babies!!!!

I think he was counting weeks.

The 6th panel: It’s taken me, what, three decades to realize that daughter looks just like her dad.

I’ve always preferred months myself. Four months, Mike. She had a pea in the pod when she married.

Meh. Mike is thinking about money.

Pea in the pod at the wedding is no big deal anymore. Hate the hypocrisy that pretends we’re still virgins when we marry. It was outdated last century and well-before that too, but it didn’t prevent our religious and governmental institutions from shaming and condemning the mothers and their children (but not the fathers, of course).

c’mon..be happy…doonesbury is not just a pathologically political strip..that’s why i love the characters..i hope these twins will be the source of a whole lotta human comedy..can’t wait to see what their names are..

Pete and Re-Pete

“Will they be born with eye patches or do they have to wait to get in the war that never ends ?”#Good ol’ Uncle Sam has these two “dudes” in the pipeline to go on their first tour, to ‘Stan’ – to battle those evil doin Taliban – in 2031!!

Comic strip time isn’t our time.

“A pair of dudes.” Sounds like a poker hand. Jacks or Kings?

Well, all we can hope for is that like so many of her peers, for Alex “dudes” is a gender-free word.

If Alex says “God help me” over a pair of boys, imagine what she would say if they were girls. Especially between the ages of 12 and 21.

I was 12-years old when I finally “did the math” for myself and realized I was born eight months after my folks got married. OK, so they started the honeymoon a little early – so what?

@YatinExile * “…girls. Especially between the ages of 12 and 21.”

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I’ll second that emotion!

But then, ultrasounds aren’t always perfect indicators. My niece Jennifer was a boy right up until the moment she emerged.

That nose has got to hurt coming out!

My grandmother born in 1891 always said “First one anytime, all the rest take 9 months.”

Mama’s don’t let you babies be republicans…

Lots of mothers to be don’t want to know what is on board these days. I thought it made it a little less complicated to know ahead of time. You can get cuter stuff if you aren’t always worried about keeping everything gender neutral.

See the gray coming in Mike’s hair?

My daughter was born 9 months and 1 day after we were married. When we told people my wife was pregnant and the due date there was the silent pause almost every time while they did the math.

She’s gonna need all the help she can get.

It wouldn’t matter anyway, but 16 weeks is 4 months. 4 months ago was early October. Weren’t Alex & Leo married in the summer?

Knowing the gender in advance allows one to begin the gender indoctrination pre-natally. Great.

One-third of women in Puritanical Colonial New England were pregnant when they got married. Researchers compared marriage registrations to birth registrations. If a women gave birth within 6 months or less after marriage, it was safe to assume she was pregnant at the time of marriage.

I am SO damn sick of “rocking” this and “rocking” that! The stupidest of the countless stupid perversions of our language.

16 weeks is not the same as 4 months. especially regarding pregnancy and paychecks.

You’d think with all the left wing causes Garry champions he’d get behind population control. I mean there are almost 7 BILLION people on the planet! We’re not repopulating after the Flood!

No need for population control with all the WMDs in Iraq

Is Mike’s math necessarily about when the babies were conceived? Couldn’t he be trying to figure out when they’re due?

Or maybe he’s thinking, “Sixteen weeks already, and she’s just now telling me?”

I seem to remember DT predicting this pregnancy months ago… Too bad he won’t come back and brag about it.

So now Alex and Leo have to think of two boys’ names. They can’t name one after Leo’s father, since his mother isn’t 100% sure who it is.

If anyone doesn’t want to know the gender, they can just say that to the people at the doc’s office. Many do this and do not find out until birth. If one is so concerned about gender indoctrination, this may be your best option.

@Edward Rozanski with twins they can just pick the two most likely.

@montessoriteacher “Too bad he won’t come back and brag about it.”

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I bet he WILL come back and brag, don’t you think? Whenever he has a break from whatever is keeping him away right now? I think there’s a gleeful toldjaso on the horizon somewhere….

say goodbye to seeing your feet.

@montessoriteacher “I was surprised when LWP visited here the other day, asking about DT.”

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Me, too. Also sorry he didn’t stay longer. Maybe he’d tuned in just to see what was up, noticed Pi’s absence, and just queried without joining in. Guess he’s serious about that sabbatical!

Knowing gender of twins at 16 weeks? my doc couldn’t tell on our first one at all, even by herself at 20 weeks.

I don’t understand people who don’t want to know the gender until it’s born…If you do that, why not wait a year or two after its born to learn the gender? Have someone else change the diapers…