How to Set Up a Baby Due Date Pool in 5 Minutes (Free Template)

You've announced the pregnancy. Now the questions start: When are you due? Is it a boy or a girl? Any names picked out?

A baby due date pool takes all that curiosity and turns it into a game — one that lasts until birth day.

Here's how to set one up, what to include, and why the spreadsheet approach is dead.

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What Is a Baby Due Date Pool?

It's a collective prediction game. Everyone — friends, family, coworkers — writes down their best guesses for:

• Due date
• Birth weight
• Gender
• Name (or top 3 names)
• Time of birth
• Eye color, hair color, length...

When the baby arrives, the person with the most accurate guesses wins. Bragging rights, a prize, or just the satisfaction of saying "I told you so."

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The Old Way vs. The Smart Way

Option A: The Spreadsheet (don't do this)

You create a Google Sheet. You email it to 30 people. Half of them can't open it on their phone. Three people accidentally delete someone else's row. You spend an hour chasing predictions. And then on birth day, you're doing math.

Time to set up: 45 minutes. Headaches: many.

Option B: A Digital Baby Pool (do this)

You create a game in 5 minutes, share one link, and the platform handles everything — collecting guesses, scoring, and the final leaderboard.

👉 Create a baby pool on MyBabySurprise — guests don't need an account.

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What to Include in Your Pool

The standard questions that work for any baby pool:

Question	Why people love guessing it
Due date	The classic. Everyone has a theory.
Weight	Grandparents always guess high.
Name	Sparks the best conversations.
Time of birth	"3 AM, trust me."
Gender	Yes/no, but still fun with old-school relatives.

Pro tip: Don't add too many questions. 5-8 is the sweet spot — enough to be interesting, not so many that guests give up halfway.

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When to Launch the Pool

• Too early (8-12 weeks): people forget their guesses by month 9
• Too late (38+ weeks): the baby might arrive before everyone plays
• Sweet spot: 20-25 weeks. Anatomy scan is done, parents probably know the gender, and there are still 3-4 months of anticipation ahead.

Launch the pool and share it:

1. On your pregnancy announcement
2. In your baby shower invitation
3. In a family group chat
4. At work (if you have that kind of workplace)

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How to Score It (Without Math)

Most baby pools use a point system, but honestly? Nobody remembers the rules. The fairest one is simple: the closest guess wins.

1. Date, weight, time of birth — closest guess gets 10 points, 2nd gets 8, 3rd gets 6, 4th gets 4, 5th gets 2
2. Name, eye color, yes/no questions — 10 points for the right answer

Or: just let the platform do it. MyBabySurprise applies exactly these rules and calculates the leaderboard when you enter the real birth stats.

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The Prizes

Bragging rights are the real prize, but if you want to sweeten the pot:

• An "I knew it" trophy (the keepsake PDF lists every guess, so the winner has proof)
• A bottle of wine for the winner (to open when they can drink again)
• The right to choose the baby's middle name (dangerous, but hilarious)

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What Happens on Birth Day

You're holding a newborn. The last thing you want to do is open a spreadsheet.

With a digital pool:

1. Open the game and tap “Baby is here!”
2. Enter the real stats: date, weight, name
3. Tap "Reveal the leaderboard"
4. Share the results link in the family chat, download the keepsake PDF, and go back to cuddling your baby.

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Start Your Pool

A baby due date pool turns "when are you due?" from an annoying question into a game your whole family plays together for months.

Create your baby prediction game now — 5-minute setup, €19.99 one-time, works for everyone.