Today has been a standard, dull weekend day, punctuated by an hour or so's worth of painful contractions that went... nowhere. Textbook definition of false labor. Bummer.
So naturally my data-driven mind starts making me wonder, what is the statistical likelihood that I would go into labor at 37.5 weeks? I found a few interesting resources:
From http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr54/nvsr54_02.pdf:
(There's a ton of other interesting data in this study, such as the 'day of week' table that indicates that Tuesday is tops for baby-birthin' - is that just from parents who don't want their children to be born on Wednesday and thus full of woe? Full disclosure: I was born on a Wednesday.)
And given that this study also points to inductions and c-sections for a general trend of births happening earlier rather than later, my takeaway is: calgon, take me away, because it's apparent that this baby isn't going to come just yet.
Google Answers also has a post with pointers to a variety of interesting info which maps fairly well to the above.
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