Poll: Did Your First Baby Arrive Before, On or After EDD??

[erica57401]

I'm just curious as a first timer eager to get this over with and only 38wks 5days...

I know she'll come when she's ready...but I'm still curious.

love to you mamas!!:

[paradoxia13]

42 weeks exactly with my son. He was a c-section do to alternating between transverse and breech, but, we waited and waited and waited for labor to start on it's own. My water broke and contractions started exactly 2 weeks after his EDD.

Hoping this one decides to be a little earlier!

[spirit4ever]

4 or 6 days after (discrepency in due date!)

ds#2 would've been late too had I not been induced on my due date..

this one will prob be late too!!!!

[zoe196]

7 days early

[quarteralien]

At the time we thought he was a day late. But when I read Taking Charge of Your Fertility, I figured out the date was wrong. Not that one day makes much difference, but at least I know he came on his due date. So did my second. Now my third....

[pazerific]

dd was due on 1/31/06 and was finally born on 2/16/06. that was one loooooooong wait, but entirely worthwhile.

[CallMeMommy]

Two months early. I'm always throwing off the curve.

[xixstar]

I was induced a week after I was due - but knowing what I do now about my cycles, she was probably right on time. I have very long cycles and it's likely that the due date was too early. She was 7lbs7oz when born.

[rootsandwings]

3 days after dd went into labor 2 days after and she arrived next day!

i am at 40 wks 1 day with this one.

[imsubrosa]

DD was 41.5 wks. It was a Sunday (Easter Sunday 2004 ) and they were going to start inducing "lightly" on Monday. But... my water broke that afternoon and we went to the hospital only to find out 8 hrs later that she was breech and ended up having a c/seciton.

[AnneCordelia]

My first arrived at 41+6. A day shy of 42 weeks. Naturally occuring labour.

[lemonsforjamie]

4 looong days late.

[~Megan~]

Mine was before but she was taken before labor started.

Statistically I think its 41w 5d for first time moms, right?

[Emily12581]

over a week late I was induced/enhanced.

[kalamos23]

39 weeks - I charted so I was very sure of my dates - also we only dtd 2 times before ovulation and there is no way I conceived from one of them (too far away from ovulation, a week+). However, when she was born, all the nurses said she looked overdue because she had no vernix and was very wrinkly and dry - fingernails and toenails were long as well. So maybe I just cook them fast?

[calynde]

Something that has never been clear to me...

If the "average" is 41 + 5 for first time moms, how might that apply to a first time natural birth, second time mom? My first was C/S, so as far as birthing goes, I feel like a first time mom, ya know? I'm not sure if it has to do more with the uterus or the cervix...or? Anyone have an idea?

[KerriAZ]

My DD was born exactly 14 days before my EDD. (DS was born 13 days before...)

[babyjelly]

my first was born at 37+0, my second at 37+2. this one...38+1 and counting...

[aprilsfools]

I haven't delivered yet, but at 42 weeks 2 day I can safely say "after". LOL

[FiberLover]

Statistically the average for first time moms is 41w1d from what I've read...

Though, the poll results here are somewhat encouraging .