15 days overdue - early milestones?

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Looking to get advice from others who have had well cooked babies! My 5 week old DS was born 15 days overdue by emergency c-section. We are confident on our dates and the ultrasounds always correlated with our own calculations.

Anyway, now DS is here I am wondering how early milestones should be predicted? I know for premies there is an "adjusted date", is it a similar situation for post date babies? So although he is 5 weeks post birth, should we consider him 7 weeks developmentally?

I know in the long run it won't make any difference whatsoever, but when people talk about growth spurts and fussy periods at 3, 6 and 12 weeks it would be good to have a vague idea of the week where things might happen for us.

I feel like DS has been on a giant growth spurt since birth...so probably won't be able to predict anything at all!

I’ve never heard of this. Babies are considered to have arrived on time anything from 37+ weeks which up to 2 weeks over spans a 5 week period. I don’t think anyone expects the ones born at 42 weeks to be 5 weeks ahead of the ones born at 37 weeks?!

There’s such a range of ‘normal’ for most developmental milestones that 2 weeks makes no difference.

One of mine was two weeks late (dragged out by ventouse) and hit every major milestone as normal/late normal - not two weeks early.
Neither of mine had particular growth spurts or fussy periods that I could pin down to a week/month, the first 6 months (ahem 16 years) was fairly relentless.

Enjoy your baby and don't worry too much if they are a bit late/early doing stuff, that first gummy grin makes it all worth it.

I suppose you could keep it in mind but all babies are different so those milestones are very sketchy anyway.

I was told this too. Mine was 40+13 in the end. Didn't notice her hitting a single milestone early.

I can see how some very early premies' development is adjusted, but for late babies I don't see how it works because development is in response to external stimuli they don't get while cosying up in the womb and refusing to fucking budge thanks DD for the induction and ECS still in the womb.

when people talk about growth spurts and fussy periods at 3, 6 and 12 weeks it would be good to have a vague idea of the week where things might happen for us.
Your question just goes to show how vague and made up these "milestones" are. All that Wonder Weeks stuff and leaps and cloudy weeks is daft. None of it is that predictable or happens on a template. Your baby is just as likely to be unsettled and fussy in week 5 as week 7 or week 8 regardless of the weeks of gestation he reached.

It's mostly self-fulfilling. Parents see a chart that says week 5 is a leap and a cloudy week so expect and spot fussiest behaviour. The same baby could have been given a chart that said week 6 and the parents would spot the same behaviour that way. Confirmation bias.