Home Community April Why do they say 9 months of pregnancy when it's really 10? The whole thing really confused me at first and still kinda does lol! Almost 25 weeks now! Add a comment. Comments 5 Add a comment. Because a month has days, not Ya, it actually works out to be 9 months plus approximately 6 days.
And, honestly, when you think about it, by the time you realize you're pregnant you're already around a month pregnant! That leaves just over 8 months!
Plus, the first two weeks don't count, because they're from LMP, not from when you conceive. So it should be 39 weeks from conception, plus the 2 they count from LMP, for a total of 41 weeks. But 39 weeks is 9 months, pretty close. Each month is about 4 weeks 3 days with some variation so 39 weeks gets you to 9 months. But if you tack on the extra 2 weeks from before you were pregnant, then you get more like 9.
I think 'they' say 9 to sucker us in And, if you had been trying month after month to get pregnant, it's a very long wait to meet that baby. This is my third You have all these people hassling you, saying, 'Isn't he here yet? Which in future I wouldn't do. But they pressure you from when you are a week overdue. They say to you, 'Are you aware that you are putting your baby at risk? They said, 'We don't know. This is the problem with overdue babies: there is very little evidence because so few women allow their pregnancies to go past 42 weeks.
As US midwife Gail Hart points out, the most-cited statistic about post-dates babies that their risk of stillbirth "doubles after 42 weeks" comes from a study — a time when mortality rates were 10 times what they are now. Also, as Hart argues, induction is hardly risk-free: it carries higher rates of caesarean section, uterine rupture, foetal distress and maternal haemorrhage. These risks were what put me off induction.
Home birth was also a factor, as it is for many: if you agree to induction, it has to happen in hospital. This usually means you end up being monitored, wired up to a machine to measure the baby's heart rate, and you will have to deliver flat on your back. Having given birth twice, I know that I cope best if I am free to rampage around the room. Because my midwife knew me very well by coincidence she had delivered my second baby at home , she helped me to stand and move around, while still being monitored.
I was lucky — this is not standard practice. Fear of intervention is the main reason women resist induction. The British website www. Joanne King's second baby was born at 43 weeks plus three days. She writes: "I explained [to the consultant] that I thought the risk of being induced versus carrying on with the pregnancy — when the baby and I were well — was not one worth taking.
She agreed with me. But for other pregnant women the desire to see their baby safe and sound is too much to bear.
They would rather just get induced. Most women are not negative about induction by the second week [overdue] and some ask to be induced well before that. The latest baby Jokinen delivered was 44 weeks gestation. It's drier and flakier. They look like someone who has been in the water too long. Gaskin argues that in the US there is a new medical complication, "iatrogenic" "doctor-caused" prematurity — "inductions where babies turn out to be premature and then spend a week or more in the neonatal intensive care unit".
She says in four decades of experience and thousands of pregnancies, she has seen only one woman who needed to be induced. Prenatal Care. Retrieved November 9, The Process of Labor and Birth. FAQs from users: 'Is it normal to feel very uncomfortable during week 37 of pregnancy? Menu Search.
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