Q: How do I pick my slot? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A: It's simple! Use the form on this page to: 1. Pick the date in August 2026 you think baby will arrive. 2. Pick your exact time slot — available in 30 minute increments from 12:00 AM all the way to 11:30 PM. 3. Guess the baby's gender (Boy or Girl). 4. Enter your name, email, and phone number. 5. Choose your payment method (Cash App, Venmo, or PayPal). 6. Click "Claim My Slot & Submit." Once you submit, your slot is locked in instantly! That exact date and time disappears for everyone else. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Q: Can I buy more than one slot? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A: Yes! You can enter as many times as you'd like as long as each entry is a different date and time combination. Each entry is submitted and paid for separately. More entries = more chances to win! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Q: How does payment work? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A: We accept Cash App 0r Zelle — Friends & Family only (no goods/services). After you submit your entry, send your payment right away to lock in your slot. IMPORTANT: Include your name AND your date and time choice in the payment note so we can match it to your entry. Example: "Keisha Williams - August 19 at 3:30 PM" Your slot is NOT fully confirmed until payment is received. If payment is not received within 24 hours, your slot may be released back to other guests. Payment handles are listed on this page below the form. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Q: How is the winner chosen? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A: The winner is whoever made the CLOSEST overall guess to the actual birth. We look at three things in this order: 1. Gender — Did you guess Boy or Girl correctly? 2. Date — How close was your date to the actual birth date? 3. Time — Whose 30-minute slot was closest to the actual birth time? Example: If baby is born at 2:17 PM, the person who picked 2:30 PM (only 13 minutes away) beats the person who picked 2:00 PM (17 minutes away). Whoever is closest across all three wins the pot! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Q: What if my date passes and baby hasn't arrived yet? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A: You are STILL IN! Nobody is eliminated early. This is a closest-guess raffle, not a knockout game. Even if baby arrives on a completely different date, we look back at ALL entries and find who was closest. So if you guessed August 10 and baby comes August 22, you might still beat someone who guessed September 5. Stay in — every entry counts until the very end! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Q: How will I know if I won? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A: Once the baby arrives we will announce the winner on this page and reach out directly to the winner by phone or email. Please make sure your contact info is correct when you enter! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Q: What does each slot cost? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A: Pricing is based on how close the date is to the due date (August 24). The closer you guess, the more it costs because those are the hottest slots! August 1 – 9 ....... $5 August 10 – 16 ...... $10 August 17 – 20 ...... $15 August 21 – 27 ...... $20 ← Due date zone! August 28 – 31 ...... $15 The price is the same no matter what time you pick on that date. All 48 time slots on August 24 cost $20 — morning, afternoon, or night! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Q: Why is a time slot I want already gone? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A: Once someone claims a time slot it disappears from the dropdown completely so there is no confusion. If the time you wanted is gone, pick another one — there are up to 48 slots available per day! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━