{"id":799,"date":"2008-09-01T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/09\/01\/799\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:37:47","slug":"bristols-first-or-second-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/bristols-first-or-second-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol&#8217;s first or second child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ratio\/2819143986\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3093\/2819143986_1b0485a983_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ratio\/2819143986\/\">Telltale<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/ratio\/\">lonelysandwich<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sarah Palin&#8217;s announcement that her daughter Bristol is pregnant seems to have convinced some bloggers that Trig must then have been Sarah&#8217;s, not Bristol&#8217;s, as many used to think.<\/p>\n<p>However, Phyllis and I have been discussing this a lot, and we think the following points need to be addressed before we are convinced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why were all family photos of Sarah and Bristol taken during the pregnancy leading to Trig&#8217;s birth removed from the servers over the weekend?<\/li>\n<li>Why are there no photos or videos of Sarah Palin at the conference in Dallas that she attended after her waters broke on the 17th of April?<\/li>\n<li>How did she manage to have a 22-hour labour with her fifth child (that weighed only 6 pounds)?  Subsequent babies are normally fast.<\/li>\n<li>Why is Trig&#8217;s birth not registered at the hospital where he was reportedly born?<\/li>\n<li>Why has Sarah Palin not put an end to all the gossip by releasing complete birth records for Trig?<\/li>\n<li>Why are there no medical witnesses, for both amnio and birth?<\/li>\n<li>Given that she knew that the baby had Down&#8217;s, why was she willing to take the risk of travelling while in labour?  Down&#8217;s babies are often born with heart defects and need resuscitating.<\/li>\n<li>Phyllis&#8217;s fourth pregnancy was noticed around 18 weeks (4\u00bd months) &ndash; why wasn&#8217;t Sarah&#8217;s at 7 months, especially given that she was <i>huge<\/i> during earlier pregnancies?<\/li>\n<li>Given Trig&#8217;s weight when he was born one month prematurely, it sounds odd that Sarah Palin should have been smaller this time than during earlier pregnancies.<\/li>\n<li>Why was Bristol away from school for five months?  And if she wasn&#8217;t, why hasn&#8217;t there been an official statement from her school to confirm her attendance?<\/li>\n<li>If she really had glandular fever, why was she <a href=\"http:\/\/arcxix.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/8\/31\/145838\/319\/386\/581332\">involved in car crashes<\/a> (including one outside the maternity clinic)?<\/li>\n<li>Down&#8217;s babies tend to be smaller than average, so Trig does not appear to be one month premature based on his weight.<\/li>\n<li>How pregnant is Bristol at the moment?  The official statements have been very vague, although it would be so easy to give the gestation in weeks.  Given that they&#8217;re using this pregnancy to say that she can&#8217;t have been pregnant before, this is important.  For instance, if she&#8217;s only four months pregnant, that matches her first ovulation after an 18th April birth.  Especially for young women, getting pregnant again almost immediately after birth is not rare.<\/li>\n<li>Bristol went from being flat-chested to having a fertile pair of breasts in a few months.  Breasts grow during pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li>Current photos of Bristol show her to be incredibly big for a first pregnancy, especially for a teenager.  On the other hand, a second pregnancy within one year wouldn&#8217;t let the body get any chance to get back in shape.<\/li>\n<li>Going back to work on the third day after birth stretches the imagination.  It&#8217;s the day the milk comes in, and most women would still be h\u00e6morrhaging substantial amounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be so easy to make everybody stop speculating by releasing birth certificates and a few statements from people involved.  Then the election could get back on track instead of focusing so much on Sarah Palin&#8217;s trustworthiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telltale Originally uploaded by lonelysandwich Sarah Palin&#8217;s announcement that her daughter Bristol is pregnant seems to have convinced some bloggers that Trig must then have been Sarah&#8217;s, not Bristol&#8217;s, as many used to think. However, Phyllis and I have been discussing this a lot, and we think the following points need to be addressed before we are convinced: Why were all family photos of Sarah and Bristol taken during the pregnancy leading to Trig&#8217;s birth removed from the servers over the weekend? Why are there no photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}