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February 2014 Moms
HDBD
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Re: HDBD
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Have you read anything about how 37 weeks is NOT full term?
Healthy baby is more important than avoiding a ten pound baby. And since big baby does NOT mean that baby is more developed and ready to come early, her size has no bearing here.
Oh.
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But no. You posted that you wanted her to come early.
Women not knowing when they conceived is only a VERY small part of why guidelines have changed. 37 weeks is not full term. There is a ton of lung development that goes on in the last few weeks. It's not like baby hits 37 weeks and then just hangs out in your uterus for three more weeks for fun.
Hospitals that stopped allowing non-medically necessary csections and inductions prior to 39 weeks saw drops in NICU stays and babies with better scores at birth.
The last two weeks matter.
And yes, I am judging you.
An open forum means you get to spew idiotic statements and people can tell you that you're being stupid.
2. If you had said that you're uncomfortable and awkward? Support would have come to you. If you had said you were over pregnancy and wished your due date would come faster? Support. But no. You said you wished she would come early.
3. Knowing when you conceived because you were tracking is nice, but that doesn't change the fact that your baby is not full term until 39 weeks.
4. you saying you want your baby to come early is a slap in the face to the preemie moms here. That's not supporting those of us who are going through something really difficult. If you're going to claim you want support, how about thinking of how others who are going through harder things will perceive it?
We're just trying to tell YOU that every week matters and makes a difference; every day matters in brain and lung development. Babies coming early is SCARY and a very touchy subject for some of us who have experience it and isn't something to joke about.
ETA: And yes, I'm another one judging you.
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