The only reason no one goes that long is that doctors panic and induce at week 40.

It’s not mentioned who said this, but it’d be ironic if it was a doctor who forced women to induce at 39 weeks because if they don’t, they’ll remain pregnant forever.

Why does it have to be “someone else” who got the OP pregnant…

Wow, no one *ever* stays pregnant 42 weeks? I guess I just imagined the last two weeks of each of my last three pregnancies.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say… military doc and husband was deployed when doc thinks she got pregnant.

Am I right?

OK, I don’t even care about the 42 weeks actually being completely normal part. I’m used to OBs being idiotic regarding that. It’s the other half of this comment that has me floored. If a doctor said this to me, I’d be hard pressed not to smack him/her across the face before I turned on my heel and walked out.

I am so sick of the magic 40 weeks number. I know very very few women (who were doing things naturally) actually went into labor before 41 weeks! I went right at 40 weeks the first time, but the second time, I would have technically been at 43 weeks if the docs had gone by my LMP. according to U/S I was one day past 40 weeks. Thank goodness I had docs smart enough not to look at LMP.

Stupid doctors…I have tons of friends who went to 41 – 43 weeks, depending. When I had my first with an OB, and I went to my 39-week appointment, the doctor said, “If I see you next week, we’ll talk about induction.” I was so depressed over that idea. Luckily she came 4 days later.

Ironically my third baby was born on his due date. I had never expected that to happen! What kind of baby is born on his/her due date? lol.

This is my story

When I was 18 I got pregnant. I had a Dr who was very cruel and really didn’t know much about pregnancy and delivery.
She stressed me out so much throughout my entire pregnancy, telling me that my baby wasn’t growing and that I would maybe have a 4 lb baby. And that I must not be eating.
I would start getting contractions off and on for a couple weeks at the end and when I was 42 weeks along she said to me
“You’re 42 weeks according to when you say you got pregnant. No one goes that long, you must have gotten pregnant by someone els a month later”!

I knew when I did because it was the last time I was with my partner before we broke up. I was so fed up with her rude jabs at me, I was in tears all the time.
When she said this to me I was nearing the end of 42 weeks

My mother was there with me at the hospital when the dr said this to me, and my mom nearly punched her out!

At that point she admited me to the hospital so that I would be induced. I was preparing myself for it emotionally, then the next day she would come by and tell me she wasn’t going to. Then she would come back and tell me that she was. This went on for a week!
I was a basket case full of emotions over it all. I was crying constantly because I didn’t know what was going to be happening to me from one day to the next.
After a week she told me to go home.
I ended up being admitted again for induction at 44 1/2 weeks. Like I said in the post before, I would have contractions on and off for a couple weeks.
That time I did get induced.
The whole experience with that dr scared me off from ever wanting children ever again for many years

This feels a lot like what was said to me, only mine went the other way.

I gave birth at 36 weeks 6 days, baby was 8 lbs 1 oz, and no fewer than 4 people asked me if I was sure about the baby’s due date, was I maybe a month off. Maybe I really gave birth at 40 weeks 6 days???

Well hmmm considering that there was a period of only 4 days where I could have conceived, yeah I’m pretty sure of when my due date was. The bun in my oven just happened to get done cooking quickly.

At least in my case no one doubted who the father of my child was, sheesh.

I never ended up having more children. Not because I didn’t want to, but because it just never happened for me.
My daughter was born 7lbs12ounces. So much for my 4lb baby that my dr was so sure I’d have!!
Labor was hell because of induction, but going as long as I did, it seemed as though it wouldn’t have happened unless I was induced. 44 weeks is a looong time. I rarely hear of women going that long.
Dr told me that my due date was Sep 5th and I ended up having her Sep 27th.
When she came out you could tell she was over due, she was all dry and didn’t look like a new born. Dr looked at me and she gave me a half assed apology for saying what she did.
Wasn’t good enough.

Oh, for pity’s sake! My sister went 46 weeks and guess what? She gave birth to an 11 pound baby at home! It can happen, our sweet two year old Vivi is proof of that!

And the insinuation that this woman had an affair? That’s so far out of line that I can’t even figure out anything to say that doesn’t involve curse words. ::bites tongue::

Thank you
46 weeks!! Wow! I thought 44 1/2 was long!

EXACTLY!!! )

My most recent pregnancy taught me yet again that babies come when they’re ready, and some just grow more slowly than others. My first baby was 40 weeks exactly, so I wasn’t expecting to be a week overdue. He was born last monday (awesome 2.5 hour home waterbirth) at 41 weeks, but weighed only 7 pounds 2 ounces and his gestational age assessment from the midwife was 38 weeks! He still had a lot of vernix and wasn’t waterlogged at all…etc. But I have a positive pregnancy test from 2 weeks after ovulation, so I KNOW that he was in there 41 weeks. Some babies just grow differently than others! I actually ate a much better diet with his pregnancy- lots of healthy proteins and fats, and my placenta looked awesome- but he was still a peanut.
My midwife kept telling me that he’d come when he was ready, and she should know- she went 2-4 weeks overdue with all 4 of hers!

When she came out being nearly 8lbs the dr had a shocked look on her face. She really thought my baby was going to be 4lbs.
My mom looked at her and said, “4lbs eh”?
Maybe she just was a slow grower in utero. And maybe that’s why the dr thought that. She was a slow grower her whole life. She started kindergarten wearing size 3T lol.
When she entered middle school she was just growing out of 6X size. She is 18 herself now and is 5 foot 1 and a size 0. She was born a good size, but was a peanut all her life /
I never thought about the not going into labour because I didn’t feel safe. That may be why. I know the contractions I was having on and off for 2 weeks were pretty strong and I was sure each time it was labor. They were a lot different than Braxton Hicks.

I remember watching a show on TLC about that lady in India who’s baby calcified. 40 years she carried it! So strange what happens with our bodies.

I’d like everyone to know that the story of the Indian stone baby that was publicized, the baby was never delivered because the baby grew outside of the uterus. The woman was scared out of the hospital by hearing all the women screaming inside, so obviously no one was there for her to tell her something’s amiss.

I know a story of one baby that developed outside the uterus that survived because it was finally caught by diligent doctors and of course delivered by csection. She had some issues from having to share her space with mommys intestines but otherwise fine.

Careful with such a comment! A) you sound very misinformed when you say no one carries to 42 weeks because they can, and they can carry longer (had a 43+5 about a month ago). Personally, I think the big reason you don’t see a large population of moms still pregnant past 39 weeks is because docs are a little induction happy. Thankfully, many of the new grads are in the practice of letting labor happen when it happens unless an induction in medically indicated. AWHONN is getting through to some of these OBs.

and B) you could cause some serious damage insinuating infidelity. Or, as in this case, out right accusing the patient of infidelity.

And furthermore, even if the doc was right and this baby was by another father, it’s not the doc’s, or anyone else’s, place to make such a comment. It’s not our job to judge. Our job is to care for our patients. When you take on any medical title, it’s your job to comfort your patients, care for them and do what you can to put them at ease. Not pass judgement.

41w5d here, healthy baby who weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. Good thing I wasn’t induced earlier–she would have been so tiny!

My kids were born at 40w5d and 43 w0d. And I definitely knew who the father was! lol