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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Nothing Good Happens After 41 Weeks…”
“Nothing good happens after 41 weeks.” -OB to mother who gave birth at 42 weeks, 4 days.
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This was me. This was said a couple of hours AFTER the birth. “And this baby here is…?”
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Jessica Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 am (Quote)
Was the dr. implying that your new baby wasn’t good? That your birth wasn’t a good birth? What an idiotic thing to say AFTER a good outcome, certainly didn’t make this dr. look too bright, that’s for sure. Good for you doing what was best for you and your baby. Sorry you had to hear something so stupid from a “professional.”
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My OB said the same to me, actually, when she was talking about scheduling an induction. I told her she could schedule it whenever, I just wouldn’t show up.
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All 4 of my great kids were post-41 weeks. That’s just how my body does it. Gloria Lemay exposed the 41 week fraud at the Trust Birth Conference 2008. The protocol that babies have to be born by 41 or 42 weeks is based on FRAUDULENT research. It’s totally bogus. BUT, babies born earlier than 37 weeks ARE at higher risk.
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My 7 lb. 10 oz. daughter was born at 41w5d. I’m glad she wasn’t any earlier, she would have been awfully small!
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Kat Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:35 am (Quote)
My 41 weeks 5 days baby girl was 6 pounds 2 oz.
If she had come any earlier, they’d have probably been reluctant to sign her out of the hospital until she gained some weight. We went home about 5 hours after she was born.
Of course since I struggle with oversupply, she was back to her birth weight less than a week later, and well over her birth weight very quickly.
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Chelsea Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 1:17 pm (Quote)
And my daughter was born at home at 41 weeks + 1 day. She was a peensy little 5 pounds 15 ounces. Healthy as can be. A hospital would have had a coniption! And all my family and friends had been trying to convince me to get an induction since 38 weeks…
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Actually, Naegele’s rule, which is what most practitioners follow to figure out “due dates”, is off by about 1 week. So pregnancy is actualy 41 weeks.
Also, a woman’s due date isn’t 38 weeks after conception, it’s actually a personalized math equation taking into account her normal cycle length and her and her mother’s pregnancy lengths. There might be more details, but I’m still learning. In any case, cookie-cutter-care is just silly.
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Kat Reply:
December 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm (Quote)
Yes Sheva, you are correct. I have tracked my cycles by using Fertility Awareness, so I was able to know the approximate conception date (ovulation date) and even so I went past 41 weeks. Other women have told me their caregivers didn’t believe fertility awareness works, so they would give a LMP date exactly 14 days prior to their known ovulation date just to get a slightly closer estimate. Some women don’t ovulate until 20-30 days after the last period, in extreme cases, so a due date based on the 28-day cycle assumption would be severely inaccurate!
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Jespren (formerly 'Jessica') had this to say,
Dec 7, 2009 @ 5:32 am (Quote)
My mother was almost 2 weeks early with her first (me) and almost 2 weeks late with her second! Everyone was surprised when my first went all the way to the due date (40 weeks exactly) but no one, thankfully, talked about induction. I don’t know if this has been mentioned, becuase I don’t remember the guys name, but the 40 week thing was initially thought up by a German man who made the assupmtion that pregnancy ought to last 10 ‘moons’ since a woman’s cycle was equal with a ‘moon’. Makes perfect sense!
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Riiiight. Cause apparently it’s an expiry date, rather than an estimated date of arrival? lol. Glad to hear mom did what was best for her baby.
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