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By Marilyn Starr Curl, CNM, LCCE, FACCE From the time that you learn you are pregnant, the warm-up to your due stage begins. But the seemingly simple question “When are you due?” can really be answered by only one person: Your baby. For older generations of women, the concept of a due stage was “around Thanksgiving” or “late fall.” As lineage moved from home to hospital, women were given the injudicious stage when they should expect to be serving to a hospital bed, tabbed the “estimated stage of confinement.” Eventually, this term evolved into “expected stage of delivery,” now tabbed “due date.” Unfortunately, a specified due stage has made women (and their family and friends) place too much accent on a precise day - to the point that they plan their life virtually it. Your victual doesn’t have a calendar, however, so it is no surprise that less than 10 percent of babies unquestionably victorious on the stage they are due. For the other 90 percent of pregnant women, what does your due stage really mean? The Numbers Game Many health-care providers use a sonogram to pinpoint your due date, but don’t be swayed by technology: A stage based on an ultrasound can be off by a week or increasingly depending on the skill of the technician, the timing of the sonogram and the size of the baby. Until 13 weeks of gestation, most babies grow at the same rate, but as pregnancy progresses, fetal size corresponds less and less to the value of time that the victual is in the womb. So while many health-care providers alimony giving ultrasounds to reassess a woman’s due stage throughout her pregnancy, the stage is unquestionably rhadamanthine less well-judged as time goes by. In fact, there’s really no need for a sonogram to determine a due stage unless you don’t know the stage of your last period. If you do know the stage of your last period, try the pursuit calculation, tabbed Naegele’s Rule. Babies have a gestational period of well-nigh 280 days, so count when 3 months from the first day of your last period and add 7 increasingly days. Your injudicious due stage is that day within the next year. Take note of the word “approximate:” Your victual will grow and mature on his own schedule. The only thing you’ll know for sure is that you should requite lineage within two weeks surpassing or without that day. Wait It Out Many women (and their health-care providers) wilt so tying to their due stage that when the victual doesn’t come on that day, they schedule an induction. But considering the due stage is unreliable in the first place, inducing the victual may rationalization him to be born too soon. These “near-term” infants (as they are known) can have trouble breathing, staying warm and breastfeeding, and they often need special hospital superintendency without birth. Induction isn’t without risks for you, either: Research has shown that a first-time mother whose labor is induced is twice as likely to have a cesarean as one whose labor starts on its own. When you let your victual segregate his own birthday, it ways he’s really ready to uncork life outside the womb. Remember: Your due stage is an estimate of when you will requite birth, not a guarantee. If you are “overdue,” just count it as increasingly time to establish a yoke with your baby, to prepare mentally for motherhood, to discuss your partner’s role during the lineage and to ready your home for your baby’s arrival. Consider telling family and friends that you are due “sometime in May” rather than on a specific day in order to prevent a daily thundercrack of phone calls near the end of your pregnancy. Trust that your victual will know when the time is right for his big debut. It will be worth the wait for everyone. ForIncreasinglyInformation: Which due stage should I use? 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