Due date: Poll for STMs

alphaphi98 · August 2012

I'm a FTM and wondering how accurate due dates are? I know they say only 5% of women give birth on their due dates. What was it for you?[Poll]

vnstacie · August 2012

I said 1 week early, because they said my EDD was 9/15, but the dr said "you're going to deliver one week early" and he was right she made her appearance on 9/8. I was exactly 40 weeks that day.

lavet22 · August 2012

I voted 2wks early because DS1 came at 38wks 0days. DS2, on the other hand, was induced after his EDD...

HAFranklin · August 2012

I voted for 1 week early, but I went into labor 3 days early, and delivered the next day.

mocknine · August 2012

I said "1 week late", but I was induced, so who knows when the little lady would have come if I didn't evict her

alanap · August 2012

I voted 1 week - it was really only 2 days early

oneqwkchk · August 2012

I voted for 2 weeks late. It wasn't quite that but not far off. She was 11 days late.

milesc · August 2012

Due June 10th, had DD May 26th... So just over 2 weeks early.

mopsie · August 2012

I went into labor 2 days early, delivered 1 day early.

seraphiclust · August 2012

Voted 2 weeks early but actually went into prodromal labor at 37 weeks and had her at 37w4d so about 2.5 weeks early!

weebos8 · August 2012

I was induced two days before my due date.

Nicki Boston · August 2012

5 days overdue.. and totally worth it

Kadyra · August 2012

I was induced 4 weeks early due to complications.

Mrs.MLR04 · August 2012

I voted 1 week early but I was induced at 39w4d. At the time of my induction, I was not effaced or dilated so I'm sure I would have been overdue.

chpswife · August 2012

I was due with DD 12/15 dr was going to induce 12/24 but I went into

Labor on my own that morning at 2am and had DD 12/26 via c section

mrstorrestobe · August 2012

I voted 1 week early. I actually went into labor 5 days early and she was born 2 days later, so she was born just 3 days early.

ZoeMay06 · August 2012

I was one of those lucky 5% who gave birth right on their EDD, but I read that the average timing for FTMs going into labor spontaneously is 41w1d. That little detail made me feel better about waiting around feeling like a ticking time bomb toward the end, even though I got lucky and had her on time.

amydawn09 · August 2012

With my first, I was two weeks past my EDD. My second was a week and a half past, and my third was a week past my EDD.

Moms who are let to give birth whenever their baby will come, with no unnecessary intervention on the part of the care giver can go beyond 2 weeks late and have a perfectly healthy baby with a perfectly safe delivery. Some babies just need to spend longer in the womb to develop all the way. I fully believe that babies that are induced or 'sectioned' at two weeks, when they would have stayed in longer, would have been healthier and stronger if they had been just let be. Of course, instead, we guestimate weight and assume that the placenta is already degrading at 40 weeks, and assume that the baby must come out right then. Oh well, I'm getting onto a tangent and a soap box. Stopping now... :-)

caetd · August 2012

I was 3 days early with my DD.

auburnbride2be · August 2012

DD was 3 days early.

Beeautiful · August 2012

I was dilating and having contractions at 7 months with DS so they gave me the shots to stop labor. Then I ended up going over and being induced about 1 1/2 week after DD.

Laura_Elaine · August 2012

I said my due date, although technically I went into labor on my due date and gave birth the day after, for both of my children thus far. We'll see if DD2 upholds the trend.