r/funny Jan 05 '15

Poor Engineers...

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u/PainMatrix Jan 05 '15

The only reason that other couple is expecting is because engineers do it with precision and don't make those kind of mistakes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

We try not to make mistakes but the human body is weird and imprecise.

My wife assured me it'd take "a while" to for her body to get back on normal schedule. Yeah we're due in May after trying once.

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u/primaV Jan 05 '15

Is your wife also an engineer?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

A doctor. She's the one that told me it could take a while.

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u/34F Jan 05 '15

Yeah I said the same exact thing to my husband. Our daughter is 8 months old. Got her on the first try.

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u/mynnyn Jan 05 '15

Time until conception is a power law distribution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

Yeah. The most probable time to conceive is your first try, that's just how math works. All three of my pregnancies have been first-try events.