To wonder if some women fib about their due dates to friends and family?

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Because virtually everyone that I know that has has babies in the past few years has had them 'a few days/a week early'. All 3 of mine were late but no one else ever seems to go over due.

DH's friend's wife has just had her third and told me confidently during pregnancy 'Oh mine are always early, this one will be too' and lo and behold, it was born a week early.

Another woman that I know has just had her second baby, and again, as with her first, her second was 'a few days early'.

I've heard before that famous people give a fake due date so that it looks like they've had their baby early. AIBU to wonder if 'real' people do this too?

The reason people I know think it's superior/better to have an early baby is that they don't get bored waiting for the baby to come, earlier babies are usually smaller and all the ones I know of we're quicker deliveries with less trauma (a 6.4lb baby slipped out a month early for my friend whereas my 2wks+ late baby was 9lbs+ and took a labour of 3 days and major tearing/cutting/forceps). Also you get longer of your mat leave with the baby.

I know it sounds unbelievable, but the women that I know that have had their babies early have generally been very smug about it.

One woman in particular, has 4 children, born in the order boy, girl, boy, girl, takes great pleasure in telling people that her children were born in the 'perfect order and all born early'.

I don't think anyone would lie that their due date was later than it actually was, would they? Because then you would only get the "my, aren't you huge then! Is it twins?" Comments.

Some people are just smug and seem smug whatever they're talking about.

DD was 2 weeks "early" (although actually on time as 2 weeks - or + is the norm). I never felt like I was "super brilliant at pregnancy" nor did I know that anyone though this. I wish I did though, it would have made me feel like I was good at something when I was feeling crappy with baby blues.

Why would anyone lie (or care) if a baby was born 2 weeks - or +? People ask if you've had the baby yet because, presumably, they're excited. Nothing more!

It'snot anything to ith being a super-mum, it's all the 'anything happening yet?' questions a million times a day!

My dd was born at 37+3 and was 7lb 2oz. I don't think that makes me a super parent. I do appreciate that I never got to that really uncomfortable stage my friends did, and my dd would have been bigger if she had come at a later date - so those are the pros. The cons are that we were in hospital for over a week, and then attending outpatient clinics for a month due to neonatal jaundice which the hospital said was associated with her being on the early side.