Short answer: "March."
Long answer: "Early March."
There's two things to remember with due dates: 1) No one tells the baby; and 2) the medical world doesn't count pregnancy in months. So, forget 9 months, and remember 40 weeks. Just for fun, the due date is calculated as 40 weeks after my last period. Most women (apparently, myself included) typically ovulate about 2 weeks after their period. Thus, we get 2 weeks credit just for... well, you know. It's kinda like how on the SAT they gave us 200 points just for filling out our name. Not a terrible deal. Plus, 40 is a nice, even number.
Next up to confuse folks is the fact that the due date isn't actually the date that anyone expects the baby to be born. That baby's got it's own agenda. A pregnancy is considered "full term" anywhere from 37 to 42 weeks along. Thus, Zach and I hedge when folks ask for a due date and give the general "early March" response. No sense in pinning us down to a specific day! If you must have a time frame, I'll let you in on a secret: very few doctors will let a pregnancy progress past 42 weeks. In this case, that's March 23rd.
Which brings us back to our original answer: March.
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