Lost = sad

I always cry over babies and lost loves.

But did you notice that there were three dates on that tombstone? Sun's was on the left (born 1980, no died date) and Jin's was on the right (born 1974, died 9/22/2004). After some discussion with Eric, we determined it must have been put up by Sun after she got off the island, and they said Jin died in the crash to keep up with the story of only 8 survivors that Jack told in court.

So here's my dorky Ob/Gyn take on it:
According to Lostpedia (thank goodness someone is keeping a timeline!), the plane crashed on 9/22, and it is now 12/27 or 12/28. Sun and Jin were definitely not sleeping together the first few weeks, and it's pretty clear (from the online recaps) they reconciled on 11/4, before Jin leaves on the raft. On 11/20, Sun finds out she's pregnant. That fits pretty well with my ACOG pregnancy wheel -- a conception on 11/4 would make her at 4 weeks and 1 day on 11/20, and she would have missed a period, and that would make her in the middle of the 9th week on "today," 12/28. (If you're counting along, the embryo would be 7 weeks old, but pregnancies are tallied from the first day of the last menstrual period, not from the date of conception, because traditionally it was easier to identify the LMP than the date of conception. So a full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, but the fetus is 38 weeks old.) So her true due date is July 28, 2005.

But, if Jin died in the crash, then Sun would had to have been pregnant on 9/22 already, before he died. Even if they had joined the mile-high club and conceived on the flight, her due date would have been June 15, so a July 28 delivery would make that baby a whopping 6 weeks late. That would be a huge red flag, and pretty much anyone who knew the story of the Oceanic Six would have been able to figure that out -- don't you think part of Sun's story would be that she was pregnant when the plane crashed? Don't you think the media would have been clamboring for some baby photos in mid-June? The other alternative is that Sun did deliver on June 15, with her physician thinking she was full-term but with Sun knowing that she's really only at 34 weeks. That's preemie, people. Which maybe would account for the fetal stress the physician was talking about, I guess. But the other problem with that is that pediatricians can date babies pretty darn accurately in the first 24 hours, and it's done routinely, so the pediatrician is going to take one look at the baby and realize it's a 34-weeker, not a full-term baby. So someone besides me is going to figure out there's a problem!

I guess the other scenario is that Jin died, and then Sun slept with someone else on 11/4, giving her a term delivery at the end of July. I seriously want to know -- I can't imagine that the Lost writers are going to let that detail slip through, when they were detail-oriented enough to make the date of conception (11/4) match the date of pregnancy discovery (11/20) and match "today's" date of being in the 9th week, coming up on her second trimester just like Juliet said. Argh!

I know, I know, I'm a big fat dork.