How often do people actaully give birth on their due date?

Answer 1

I read in Parents magazine a few years ago tha 5% of all babies are born on their due date. I was lucky enough to have one!

Answer 2

I gave birth on my due date. They say 1 in 20 women do.

Answer 3

I think it's something like 10% of babies are born on their due dates. That's a stat that I heard but that even seems too high. A due date is just an estimate of when the baby will come it's definatly not a certainty.

Answer 4

My due date was July 20, both by ultrasound and last period.

I gave birth to my son at 2:18am on July 20 after only 5 hours of labor.

Answer 5

Some people do deliever on their due dates and others are either a few days early or a week or 2 late your doctor wont let you go to far before he or she decides that induction needs to take place I wouldn't worry about being over due or not.

Answer 6

Probably only 1% of the population do. 3 out of 4 of my children were late. With the longest overdue child 2 weeks to the day late! One being 6 days late, and another being 9 days late. The only early one was a C-Section baby who was 8 days early.

Answer 7

ive had 4 babies and none of them on the due date.
1st 1 was 3 weeks early the next 3 were all late!!!
ive not heard of anyone giving birth on the EDD
so im 99% sure that this baby is gonna be late :-(

Answer 8

Rarely! Both my kids were born weeks past the due date. I don't know anyone who gave birth on the actual date that the Dr gave them

Answer 9

Not very often. I was 1 day after my due date.

Answer 10

i have had 4 babies and none of them were born on there due date 1 was 6 weeks early another 10 days early another 14 days early and the closest was 6 days early. i guess they come when there ready.hey we all like surprises right?