@HinchesSousChef I just remembered that there was another gleam bot who announced her pregnancy on the same day as Hinch. Elle Darby. I don’t follow her, but checked her out at the time when her and Hinch were commenting on each other’s photos and she now often appears on my explore page. Anyway, I thought I’d see how honest/transparent she is being with her pregnancy dates (as I
thought they must be at around the same stage - from comments and photos/bump) to see if that would give any timeline hints. She posts exact dates in her bump updates e.g 28 weeks on 19th April, so it’s thrown a bigger spanner into the theories as she still has another TEN weeks to go!!
Every case is different, but where I work, women with (specifically) factor v Leiden (like Hinch) do
tend to be induced at around 38 weeks. We actually have one lady who campaigns for it to be made standard practice after having a stillbirth 10 years ago due to complications with it (but has gone on to have three more healthy babies). So I believe that when Sophie was giving her cryptic “been holding onto something for months and months” and “less time to go than I’ve been pregnanct” she was basing it on a 38 week pregnancy. She said that 18 weeks ago, and I know Insta timelines aren’t exact but let’s say that was 5th January. The half way point of a 38 week pregnancy is 19 weeks and as she said she had less time than she’s been pregnant, let’s add a week on and say on the 5th Jan, she was 20 weeks pregnant. That would make TODAY her “due date” (basing it on her assuming she would be induced at 38 weeks). I think that makes most sense with her saying he’ll be here any day, although if she has an IOL date surely she would just say. Either way we shouldn’t have to endure this for more than another week - 10 days, as I think it highly unlikely she would be allowed to go over due and definitely not to 42 weeks.
If she TRULY wanted privacy, she should have been clever, & made out she was only 12-14 weeks when she announced the pregnancy. Sheep/tattle/press wouldn’t even be expecting her to have a baby until end of June - mid July. She could have quite easily slipped away for a couple of days in May, without raising to much attention, and returned with the baby. She then could have said, I was actually slightly further along, but I wanted to be cautious/have my privacy. She would even butter them up by telling the sheep that it just means all his Insta aunties just get him to love him sooner. But she didn’t do this, and she did leave breadcrumbs which to me shows she anticipated and WANTED all this speculation. She is probably revelling in it! Especially all the theories and bump watch etc.
Part of me is still hoping for you to be right Sous Chef, but I think she has gone on to much about an impending arrival e.g indicating he defo IS NOT currently here, that even the sheep would crucify her if she lied. It would just be too much of a bare faced, blatant lie for them to swallow.
ETA - I don’t get as much time to post these days but when I do they seem to be massive long essays which I know can be a ball ache to read. Sorry
but thanks to anyone who takes the time to read my ramblings.