I have my section scheduled for this Thurs, which is a week early. They gave me the date and asked if I liked it. I am fine with it, so we scheduled. I guess you can pick if it is close to the day they want you to go.
They scheduled mine about 10 days before she was due. I picked the date...sorta. I said "What about Feb 28" and the doc said she'd be at a conference so we went with Feb 27.
My doctor scheduled mine one week before my due date. I was the first scheduled c-section on Friday morning which was nice because I was able to go home then on Monday.
Mine was scheduled for 8 days before my due date. They may let you pick a date within a couple days of being a week early, my doctor just schedules everything on Wednesday normally since that is the day she is at the hospital.
I had mine 10 days before my EDD. My OB said I could do any day I wanted, but the only days that *she* could do the c/s was Aug. 23 and Aug. 26, otherwise another doctor in the clinic would do it. I picked Aug. 23.
Re: C section ?
They called me with the date. I had her at 38 weeks, 6 days. 39 weeks would have been a Saturday, and my OB doesn't do scheduled c/s on weekends.
I liked it, though, because it was a Friday, my husband could have 3 days off, and it was my FILs birthday.
DS - December 2006
DD - December 2008
With #1 - breech, failed version, scheduled c at 39w2d.
With #2 - tried for vbac so they let me go as long as possible. Scheduled c at 3 days late :-) Normally with #2 my OB office would do them at 39w.
They let me pick the date, but I didn't want to choose their birthdays so I let the OB pick the dates for both instead.
I had mine 10 days before my EDD. My OB said I could do any day I wanted, but the only days that *she* could do the c/s was Aug. 23 and Aug. 26, otherwise another doctor in the clinic would do it. I picked Aug. 23.