What week was your 1st baby born?

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I'm now 33 weeks and I know it's not an exact science but I'm curious to hear as I'm always told that I'll likely be overdue as it's my 1st. But I do wonder as I'm reasonably active and my cycle was less than 28 days. I'm moving house around 36 weeks, so I hope the stress of that doesn't affect anything but also the idea of going to 42 weeks fills me with dread.

Basically, are most 1st babies 40 weeks plus?

42 + 1 or 42 + 5 depending on whether you go by my date or the scan date.

DD was all wrinkly and covered in meconium, though luckily DH got to clean that up as I was passed out on the bathroom floor haemorrhaging at the time.

let me think
40+4
39 elective section
40+17
40+14
40+17
40+18

no inductions btw

Was convinced DS was going to be late like me but was 34+1!

42 weeks - induced. Was also v active, worked til 37+ weeks and tried everything to bring on labour except castor oil...my sisters and mum also had first pregnancies of 41+ weeks (my mum was 42+3).

42 +6. And it was still too early as far as I was concerned.

How active you are has bugger all to do with it, I'm afraid. The day I was induced I walked 2 very steep miles to the hospital and was cycling throughout the pregnancy, right up to two weeks over. But like Crunchyfrog I had a family history of late births and breezed through pregnancy. With #2 I did a (small) assault course on my due date. (And she still didn't shift for a fortnight.)

On his due date

3 days early.

Oh and my cycle is 23 days (my mum and sisters also had/have short cycles) so doubt that has much to do with anything bar establishing an EDD (in my case my EDD was bang on as I had IVF).

DS was born 40 + 18. It was a hell of a slog tbh.

42+2 after induction. And she wasn't ready because she wasn't in the right position, will bloody well wait next time until DC is ready to come on it's own.

Both at 39+5 (came as a surprise first time round as I am white, overweight, middle class, and my mother had long pregnancies (42-43 weeks). I had just assumed I'd go overdue).

40+11 and 40+5

My waters broke at 38+ with my first dd.

Ds1 was 41+3

35+5

and am white, slightly overweight, middle class, and my mother had long pregnancies - I also assumed I'd go overdue.

What does being middle class have to do with it I wonder?

39+4

40 weeks + 2 days (but it all kicked off on the due date)

ds 42 +3
dd (second child) 39 +5

no.3 being induced at 38 weeks.

DD1 - 41
DD2 - 41 + 6

40+5. Went in to labour at 40+2 though!

I am not very active had the most iregular cycle-mainly long ones.
I gave birth 49 minutes into his due date.

40+0

My first was born at 40 weeks, my second at 28 weeks and my third (nine months later!) at 30 weeks. We spent most of 2007 in the Special care Baby Unit.

39 weeks on the dot.

1st 39 weeks (fell over & went into labour that night!)
2nd 38 weeks
3rd 39 weeks

Little buggers couldn't wait to be out!