LoneStarMadam wrote:ebrown_p wrote:LoneStarMadam wrote:ebrown_p wrote:You are absolutely right Madam <<ebrown>>
except you should have said "two mothers to be and their baby."
Only one is having the baby.
Mary with child is correct.
From the article you posted.
Quote:
The Washington Post reports that the Vice President's daughter Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are expecting a baby.
Nowhere in the article does it say that both are pregnant.
No, it says they both are
expecting. When I was
expecting it meant that I was about to become a parent (in my case a father).
Since neither of them are going to be a father, it is safe to say that they are both "expecting" to be mothers.
Thus they are both mothers-to-be and the baby will be their child.