Do babies ever cooperate with their "due date"?

None of mine believed the doctor's "due date" but decided for themselves. First son: 19 days overdue - 10 lbs 8 1/2 oz Second son: 14 days overdue - 10 lbs 8 1/2 oz Third son: 12 days overdue - 10 lbs 4 1/2 oz Fourth son: 15 days overdue - 12 lbs 5 oz Fifth son: 9 days overdue - 12 lb 15 1/2 oz Sixth & 7th sons - still waiting - time to give up hope? My doctor worried about the first one being overdue, but after that he just declared I was made for it, and it was less trouble for me to have a big one than for most women to have a small one. I believe it is a baby's right to decide when to be born. After all, he does most of the work involved.

My first son was actually born on his due date. Everyone was pretty shocked. When I was in labor my mom was certain that it had to be false labor, because there was no way he could actually be born on his due date. But he was! My twins were 2 weeks early, although technically still considered full term. The last 2 were each about a week overdue, the 4th had to be induced. I knew a girl years ago who actually forced her doctor to induce her on her due date. I can't believe a doctor would do that just because it's the due date, but basically I wasn't the only one I knew who had a kid on their due date. Just made mine not as special, and I wasn't happy, because mine wasn't FORCED!

Hell if I know. LOL My own 2 sure didn't! Neither of them arrived on their due dates, so they definitely did their own thing. LOL I myself was late. I don't know the exact due date, though it was something like two weeks late, if I remember right. I do know that my parents were expecting me sometime in June. Heck, they even planned on using the month as part of my name. So my name would have been Kathleen June. Joy. LOL However, that all changed when I was born in July! Those names that they were going to use got tossed out the window and they came up with the name I have now. And no, it's not that much better, but at least I don't have this month as part of my name. LOL Happy mylotting!

Babies are naughty even before they were born..not sticking to their dates, lol..

My first child was actually born on his due date, February 14th. Supposedly only 2% of babies are born on their due date. My daughter was due on May 5th, but ended up being almost 3 weeks late. She was overdue and was a small baby, only 5lb 13 oz. My brother in law convinced me to try castor oil (yuck!) and then they took me out for a bumpy 4 wheel drive ride. This was on a wednesday and she was born late that friday night, May 20th. I would not advise anyone to try this at home... the bumpy ride was not very comfortable!

Hi Dawn, Not with me... my eldest son is to be out the 10th of June (our first year wedding anniversary). After three days of an extension to stay i underwent CS. so, he was born on the 13th of june. My second child who's supposed to be born second week of august was rushing to be out last week of july. i was hospitalized for almost two weeks to suspend the delivery. total bed rest. i underwent another CS for my second child. when it's time for him to be out--he's not responding on positively. his heartbeat is fluctuating and under stress so, i had my CS and Angelo was born on the 5th of August!

Hi dawn! Quite an interesting observation.. My daughter took 4 days extra from the due date for coming out in this world. I think babies have their own theories and if it is normal delivery they come out with their whims and fancies and if it is cesarean section, they come out as per the choice of their parents.

My babies were born close to their due dates but not actually on their due dates. Ryan was due to be born on 21st April 1995 and he arrived a few days before hand on the 19th. Leo was meant to be born on 22nd May 2007. He arrived on the 19th of that month. So I have one boy whose birthday is 19th April and another whose birthday is 19th May. I wondered if my daughter who was due on 25th June 2009 would be born on the 19th. Amber wasn't and went over her due date. She was born on 27th June 2009. She she was the only baby I have had after their due date. My sister's children followed a pattern: 24th January, 14th May and 4th November. Then her next one changed the pattern.

I went a month past the due date with my first daughter, and a week past with my third, but my second daughter was born exactly on her due date and by natural birth. Astonishing, as this seldom happens lol. Karen

Hi dawnald, I have 2 kids. The first one came out more than 2 weeks earlier than his schedule. The doctor said he's coming on the first week of August, but he was out as early as the middle of July. The second one was late, my OB-Gyne worried he was a bit overstaying, and suggested C section, but my baby came out normal, just about 2 weeks late. So yes, babies make their own decision as early as their birthdate.

WOW! After reading all the comments here, I must say they are all experienced mothers. I think I would be only me who comment this discussion who is single and I would just base this on my experience as a nurse and on books that I have read. I must say that it is really true that babies don't come out as scheduled, due to some factors. 1.) Mothers have the tendency of not remembering or giving their correct 1st day of their last menstruation 2.) Babies are not mature enough to leave the place where they develop 3.) Mother's body is not yet fully prepared to deliver the newborn 4.) Hormones that aids in the contraction of the uterus and helps the delivery. As a health care provider, when a pregnant mother would approach us in the delivery room, we do not always base the delivery on the expected date of delivery but the physical changes (e.g. if her bag of water has already ruptured and if there is a blood that came out and if there is already contractions felt that radiated to back). The answer to your question, yes, 98% of the babies do not follow their due dates. It seems that they have their own mind on when they would like to get out from the mother's womb, since babies are one of the great factors that makes the delivery easier.

I didn't stick to my due date. I was impatient you see, and was born pre-maturely. Babies hardly ever co-operate with their due date, the little devils

my eldest was born one day before the due date. the thing is i can't feel anything that will tell me he wants to go out haha! the doctor pushed me at the labor room and we waited for 24 hours in vain, no nothing, till they decided to put me in c-section and then they induced the labor which i found out is extremely painful. that first sets the trend of delivery for my second child which i wished i would deliver until September 1 (so the birth days of the family falls only under 5 and 1, hehe). unfortunately, he's quite heavy to carry around and i just can't wait for September. so we just chose his birthday to be August 18th because according to my Chinese doctor 8 is a lucky number :D by the way, they're both 7lbs the first 7.1 and the second 7.12

hi I myself was 2 weeks late too, my expected due date is october 11, but my baby doesn't seem to go out that day, so i went to my Ob, then my Ob said its just normal to be late as long as you feel nothing bad, so we keep on waiting, then I started labor on actober 22, but my water bag, doesn't burst out yet, so i suffered a lot from labor..2 days of labor, then finally october 25 6:59 a.m my baby boy was born. I feel so relieve after giving him birth.

My youngest son was due 4th August ... when my sister-in-laws husband called in that evening and saw we were still waiting he told me that, if a baby didnt arrive on the right day, it had to stay where it was. Since that son is now 6'5" tall and I'm only 5'2" I'm pretty glad he was wrong about that one!! (I gave birth on 10th)

Something about mine and the 30ths. I had one on November 30th and another on September 30th. They are each 5 years apart. I think the 5 year pattern is my thing though..lol

I had problems with my first pregnancy, and the doctors never expected me to carry full-term. They did an ultrasound at about seven months and said that the baby was developed enough to deliver, so every week after that was a bonus that gave her a little more time to fully develop, which in turn gave her a little more chance of surviving and less chance of complications from early delivery. I did my best to keep her safe and give her all the time that she needed to develop. I guess I did too good of a job, though, because my expected delivery date came and went and still no sign of the baby. She was born two days late and perfectly healthy. My little one was a C-section, so I don't know whether she would have been early or late, but the doctor was concerned that she was going to be born early. My oldest daughter was born in eight minutes, which sounds like a good thing, right? Wrong. She was born so quickly that my body didn't have time to stretch, and I tore severely. The doctor was afraid that the same thing would happen with my little one, so she talked with my husband and I about our options. After hearing all the information, we decided that a C-section would be the safest route for both the baby and me. The doctor told us that we made a good decision. Then she laughed and told us that we were going to have a C-section either way, because it was the safest thing, but she wanted to let us decide for ourselves that it was the right way to go. If we had decided differently, then closer to the delivery date she would have gone into more details about the risks and convinced us to do the C-section anyways. My little one was born three weeks early, which was a little sooner than we wanted but I started having Braxton-Hicks "contractions" and the doctor was concerned that my body was starting to get ready for labor. She didn't want to risk my going into actual labor, so she scheduled my C-section for a week earlier than expected. My little one was born a little small, especially compared to her sister, but perfectly healthy. I am not pregnant at the moment, but I now know that the rest of my pregnancies will be scheduled C-sections. I also know that while I can have more than one more pregnancy, the risks get greater with each C-section, so I doubt that we will decide to have more than one more pregnancy.

That EDD is always plus or minus. All babies do not cook at the same time - 40 weeks exacty does not apply to all of them! With my first one, I thought since I was older and for other reasons that I would be having my baby "later" than the EDD. Well, she actually came a week earlier - which is perfectly normal - but because I thought she'd be coming later I wasn't mentally prepared for it (and neither was the crib area - ha ha). My second one (just 9 weeeks ago) was induced 3 weeks earlier than the EDD, so I'll never know. I'm just getting over feeling guilty that the little guy was taken out of the womb earlier than he really wanted to . . . but thankfully he is totally healthy. When he was born, again, I wasn't mentally prepared (and neither was the crib area AGAIN). I guess both my little ones couldn't wait for their crib area to be finished - ha ha.

some of them cooperate because due to love on husband

My baby boy did the same. My due date was September 28 but he decided he can't wait any longer and came out on the 22nd of September. I have a position in our company so It was hard for me to go on Maternity Leave. What I did was since I was expecting the baby to come out 28th of September I still decided to go to work until 21st. I took my Maternity Leave on the 21st and it was as if he just waited for me to file my Leave, he came out on the 22nd. :)