when does the baby know to come out? [rofl]
I told him to ask her himself HAHA So he did.
He was like "so how does your body/the baby know when it's time?" I told him "I don't know! It just happens when it happens" LOL

There really isn't anything that determines when you go into labour right? It's not like baby just suddenly decides it's time. :roll:

I wish it was as easy as that LOL

That's funny. Is Paul your dh??

i wish we could tell the baby when ..I would hit 37 wks and say.. "ok get out"!!! lol :D

Funny [rofllol] ! I wish we could tell them when to come out--there would never be any late babies :D ! Stephanie

That's funny. Is Paul your dh??

i wish we could tell the baby when ..I would hit 37 wks and say.. "ok get out"!!! lol :D

Yep Paul is my husband.

I would hit 36 weeks and say get out LOL I'd give her an eviction notice [rofl]

I watched a show which followed a couple through a pregnancy and birth and the midwife just said that when the baby begins to push down with it's head it stimulates contractions to begin.

I am sure there would be some chemical involvement.

Lesie would know :wink:

when does the baby know to come out? [rofl]
I told him to ask her himself HAHA So he did.
He was like "so how does your body/the baby know when it's time?" I told him "I don't know! It just happens when it happens" LOL

There really isn't anything that determines when you go into labour right? It's not like baby just suddenly decides it's time. :roll:

I wish it was as easy as that LOL

[rofl] That's funny! Thanks for sharing my friend! Sounds like something my dh would ask too. :lol:

You're welcome LOL
I don't know... how does the baby know when to start pushing down with their head? And your cervix has to be ready (soft) and then you have to lose the mucus plug and waters. It's all too confusing for me LOL :oops:

I think it's because it is so big it can't help but push down on it.

Yeah that's true. But the babies head has to make it's way down ... you know how they have the different stations.. well last time I had an appointment with my midwife (which was not last Wednesday but the Wednesday before that because I cancelled last week) she said baby is at 0-1. So she wasn't very far down...
I wonder where she is now...

GOD! But he has set up some systems that work with our bodies to accomplish His will...hormones, the weight of the baby's head and the pressure of it's skull helps etc...basically though...GOD! Truly, even the docs can't exactly figure out what causes it to jump start in some and not in others...Goes to show that God alone is sovereign! Keeping all your prego ladies in prayer! :D

Thanks Leslie :D I will tell him what you said when he comes home tonight!

I think the reason why most of us go overdue is because the doctors don't know the date of conception. They work it out from the first day of your last period. And I know for a fact that I wasn't pregnant then LOL So I wouldn't be surprised if I go overdue again...

Thanks Leslie :D I will tell him what you said when he comes home tonight!

I think the reason why most of us go overdue is because the doctors don't know the date of conception. They work it out from the first day of your last period. And I know for a fact that I wasn't pregnant then LOL So I wouldn't be surprised if I go overdue again...

That's correct, Renee. The actual length of average gestation is calculated at 38 weeks from conception. Doctors ask women when their last period was, since most women don't know when ovulation happened. So the doctor counts you as pregnant 2 weeks before you conceive. The funny thing is, is that that is just an average!

My husband and I use NFP and knew the time of conception and we still went overdue past that! I was actually surprised to be overdue, because I assumed that since my due date was "correctly calculated" that the baby would come around it. Boy did I have another thought coming! [rofl]

It's still a good thing though that we used the due date based on my NFP chart, because if we used the usual doctor method, I would have delivered Hannah 21 days overdue! :shock: But my midwife and I knew that I wasn't that far overdue.

Yeah my mum went 25 days overdue. Which would have been more like 11-15 days overdue... back then they didn't induce labour. :shock:
I probably delivered right on time since they induced me at 42 weeks.