Hmm. No, I don't have many problems with leaving a newborn for a few hours with a 16 year old. You could do that, if you weren't breastfeeding. Babies that age mostly sleep a ton.

But getting on a long flight when the contractions had already started and she knew the baby might be born with problems is simply mind-boggling.

My first child, I started leaking amniotic fluid (not the same thing as the waters breaking, which is more dramatic and signals the onset of hard labor, usually) two days before she was actually born. The doctors became very anxious after 12 hours and started monitoring me closely. But it was a first birth and took ages.

But the second birth took 2 hours from water breaking to finish. I wouldn't have gone more than 30 minutes from my doctor/hospital after the eighth month, if I'd had a third.

Her actions are simply stunningly reckless. I can't imagine what she was thinking.

I have no desire to become governor of anything, btw.

I think the rumor is a rumor. We'll know for sure if Bristol does give birth in December. If so, she got pregnant in March.